Learn how to ride a train
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| Jessi: Hello, and welcome to Finnish Survival Phrases, brought to you by FinnishPod101.com. This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Finland. You'll be surprised at how far a little Finnish will go. Now, before we jump in, remember to stop by FinnishPod101.com and there you'll find the accompanying PDF and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment! |
| Finnish Survival Phrases lesson 25 - Riding the Finnish Train |
| Reeta: In Helsinki, riding the subway is one of the best choices you can make to get around and reach all the most important parts of the city. In this lesson, we are going to cover how to get on the subway. |
| As you have learned in the previous lessons, in Finland you can buy tickets at kiosks, ticket vending machines, and stations. This is true of the subway as well, but usually there are more conveniently-located vending machines and ticket stands right at the entrance of the subway stations. Just in case you get too confused and have to ask the station attendant, we have prepared this lesson for you! |
| Now let's go and see how to get our subway ticket. As you may remember from the previous lessons covering how to get a ticket, we can accomplish this by asking, "Excuse me, a ticket please." |
| Yksi lippu, kiitos. |
| As you can see, the sentence doesn't change from the one we covered in lesson 22. Therefore, you have yksi lippu ("a ticket") and kiitos ("please, thank you"). |
| Our location for this lesson will be Helsinki. Let's imagine you need to go from Rautatientori (the main railway station) to Itäkeskus (a big shopping center located in the eastern part of Helsinki) and you need to ask what line you have to take to get there. |
| You can accomplish this by asking, "Excuse me, what line do I need to take for Itäkeskus?" In Finnish: Anteeksi, millä metrolinjalla pääsen Itäkeskukseen? |
| First, you have the usual anteeksi followed by millä, which is Finnish for "with which." Then you have metrolinjalla "with the subway line," then pääsen ("I can get") and finally Itäkeskukseen, which means "to Itäkeskus." |
| A possible answer to your question could be, Sinun täytyy mennä itään päin. |
| "You have to go east." |
| This might sound very strange, but in Helsinki, there is only one metro line, and it goes from eastern side of the city to the western side. |
| Ok, to close out today's lessons, we’d like you to practice what you have just learned. I’ll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you’re responsible for shouting it out loud. You’ll have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so Onnea! which means “Good luck!” in Finnish. |
| “A ticket, please.” - Yksi lippu, kiitos. |
| “Excuse me, what line do I need to take for Itäkeskus?” - Anteeksi, millä metrolinjalla pääsen Itäkeskukseen? |
| “You have to go east.” - Sinun täytyy mennä itään päin. |
| Jessi: Alright! That's going to do it for today. Remember to stop by FinnishPod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment! |
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