Teach Yourself Finnish: Complete Course (Book & CD)

Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs!

From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

* Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
* Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
* Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
* Practical vocabulary
* Regular and irregular verb tables
* Plenty of practice exercises and answers
* Bilingual glossary

The new editions also feature:

* Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
* Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
* Website suggestions to take language study further

About the Author
Terttu Leney is an experienced teacher, teacher trainer, translator and broadcaster of Finnish. She has taught Finnish in various firms and language schools, at Chelsea & Westminster Adult Education Institute, the University of Surrey and has been teaching Finnish at the Foreign Office in London for over twenty years. She has taught several generations of UK diplomats to Helsinki. She has also been a freelance broadcaster for the Finnish section of the BBC World Service and Examinations Administrator for Language Testing Associates, London. In 1996 she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Current Developments in Language Training from the University of Westminster. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.