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World Talk Finnish
IT’S easy to be fazed when you start a conversation in Finnish and the person you’re talking to replies using lots of words that you haven’t learned yet. World Talk prepares you for these real-life situations with addictive listening games. It will teach you to recognise key words in everyday situations and broaden your vocabulary.
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This is the main menu. Pick an activity - there are plenty to choose from.
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Never be lost again! Practice listening for directions on a computer.
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What's the right response? Learn to use words in context.
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It's over to you. Record your part of the dialogue!
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And now for the quiz! Take on a virtual opponent who gets better as you do.
Will it work for me?
If your Finnish is good enough to follow basic conversations, but you still need to practice, World Talk is for you.
Everything you’ll hear in the program is in Finnish, but you don’t need to know every word before you start. Listen for key words that you already know, then pick up new words in the same way you would when talking to a native speaker.
What will I learn?
To keep on listening. When a word comes up that we don’t recognise, we often stop listening because we’re focusing on that one word and nothing else. This program lets you grasp the gist of what someone’s saying without getting hung up on the words you don’t understand.
You will develop your practical knowledge of Finnish. There are 10 different games covering numbers, conversations, descriptions, sentence building, directions and dictation practice. These activities cover a wide range of subjects and give you important practical skills that you can use immediately.
World Talk help languages
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic (Egyptian)
- Assamese
- Basque
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- English (American)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Papiamento
- Persian
- Pidgin (Papua New Guinea)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Portuguese (European)
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Savo
- Serbian
- Sindhi
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Zulu
How does it work?
Play interactive language games and earn points for every game you play. High scorers can go on to win bronze, silver and gold awards, which you can print out as a record of achievement.
Speak and write in Finnish. Record yourself and compare your pronunciation with a native speaker, then test your written Finnish with four dictation exercises.
You’ll start to think in Finnish! World Talk is an ‘immersive’ experience: in this program you will only hear Finnish. You’ll learn to associate the language with memorable images – not just the equivalent words in your own language. This means you’ll start thinking in Finnish, which will make you quicker at understanding and recalling words.
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CD ROM
What our customers have said
“I loved listening to directions, then guiding the car to the correct location - not just fun, but also very practical skills to learn.”
“Hugely popular amongst our students. These are first class language learning resources.”
“Simple-to-use materials. A great way for those travelling to acquire a little of a language in a short time. Excellent software.”
System Requirements
- Windows 2000 or later
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or above
- CD ROM Drive (+ computer microphone)
CD ROM
Play this disc on any computer with a CD drive - if you can play a CD on your computer, or you see a logo on the slot where you put in the disc that looks like the one above, then you’ll be able to use this disc.