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| Tiina: Hi everyone, welcome back to FinnishPod101.com's All About series. This is lesson 12: Top 5 Finnish Classroom Phrases. I'm Tiina! |
| Reeta: And I'm Reeta, and in this lesson, you will learn the Top 5 phrases you'll hear in a classroom. |
| Tiina: These are phrases that a teacher would use often. You’ll get a head start if you know these phrases! Without further ado, let’s listen to the first phrase. |
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| Tiina: “Please repeat after me”. |
| Reeta: Toista perässäni.Tois-ta pe-räs-sä-ni.Toista perässäni. |
| Tiina: So, when you’re in a classroom, hopefully you’ll be doing a lot of speaking. |
| Reeta: The teacher will probably make you say or repeat many words and phrases, right? |
| Tiina: Right, so first we’ll introduce the phrase “Please repeat after me”. |
| Reeta: For this one, we say Toista perässäni.Tois-ta pe-räs-sä-ni.Toista perässäni. It literally means, “repeat after me.” |
| Tiina: So a teacher might say a word or something and then say toista perässäni. Can you say that phrase again? |
| Reeta: Toista perässäni. |
| Tiina: Toista perässäni. Please repeat it. |
| Let’s listen to the next phrase. |
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| Tiina: “Please look”… |
| Reeta: Katso, ole hyvä. Kat-so, o-le hy-vä. Katso, ole hyvä. |
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| Tiina: Can we hear it again? |
| Reeta: Katso, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: You can also put a noun after the verb katsoa (or katso), which means “to look”, of this phrase to indicate what you want the person to look at. |
| Reeta: Right. Katso tussitaulua, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: "Please look at the whiteboard." The next phrase is another request. |
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| Tiina: “Please read”. |
| Reeta: Lue, ole hyvä. Lu-e, o-le hy-vä. Lue ole hyvä. |
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| Tiina: If the teacher wants you to practice reading some word, phrases, or a passage, you can expect to hear this. Lue, ole hyvä. |
| Reeta: OK. Can you guess the meaning? Lue kirjaa, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: Kirja is book. So…"Please read your book." |
| Reeta: Right. Lue kirjaa, ole hyvä. "Please read your book." |
| Tiina: What if the teacher wants you to write something? What will they say? |
| Reeta: That would be our next phrase. |
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| Tiina: “Please write”. |
| Reeta: Kirjoita, ole hyvä. Kir-joi-ta, o-le hy-vä. Kirjoita, ole hyvä. |
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| Tiina: : You may have noticed all of the expressions up to now have ole hyvä in the end. Remember that in a classroom setting, when you hear this at the end, the speaker is asking you to do something. |
| Tiina: The next phrase we’ll introduce is a question. |
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| Tiina: “Do you understand?”. |
| Reeta: Ymmärrätkö? Ym-mär-rät-kö? Ymmärrätkö? |
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| Tiina: Teachers want to make sure that their students are keeping up with everything, so they’ll often ask if everyone understands, right? |
| Reeta: Right. Ymmärrätkö? Do you understand? ymmärtää is a verb that means “to understand.” |
| Tiina: So, literally “do you understand?” This can be used only for the second person singular. |
| Reeta: You might also hear: onko selvä? |
| Tiina: This literally means “is it clear?” or “did you understand?” |
| Reeta: This one is used pretty often as well. |
| Tiina: In a classroom, it can be used to confirm whether or not someone understands something. Can we hear that phrase again? |
| Reeta: Onko selvä? |
| Tiina: "Is everything OK?" So let’s recap what we learned in this lesson. Can we hear all of those phrases again one more time? |
| Reeta: No problem. |
| Tiina: “Please repeat.” |
| Reeta: Toista, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: “Please look.” |
| Reeta: Katso, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: “Please read.” |
| Reeta: Lue, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: “Please write it.” |
| Reeta: Kirjoita, ole hyvä. |
| Tiina: “Do you understand?” |
| Reeta: Ymmärrätkö? |
| Tiina: There you have it, all 5 phrases for the classroom! See you in our next All About lesson! |
| Reeta: Hei hei, bye everyone! |
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