Suomify Reviews 3

I guess we all have different approaches to learning in terms of what works for us, and what we can stick to.

I'm not the best at getting out books and studying, but I can work with apps that remind, cajole and sometimes even bully me into doing my practice and learning.

So, for quite a long time, in fact since my Finnish course stopped in Covid times, I have been using the green owl app.

That has made me something of a world expert in repeating and understanding a few phrases, but it hasn't really moved me forward in learning usable Finnish properly.

Step forward Suomify. So far, it has analysed my skills and weaknesses and generated a learning program for me. It includes a lot of information to read so it is easy to learn new things, new parts of the grammar rules etc, and it takes you through exercises each day to help improve your reading, writing, listening and understanding.

I guess for many people working on learning Finnish, apart from wanting to be able to communicate in Finnish, the main aim is to pass the YKI exam, on the way to gaining Finnish citizenship. As well as the Suomify app, there is also a YKI trainer app which helps focus more on the skills and vocabulary needed to pass the exam,

Strangely, one of the things that I have found most appealing so far about the Suomify and YKI trainer apps, is their very "honest and direct" appraisal of my current Finnish skills. I think I really needed to hear how poor my skills are, with good explanations of what I was not understanding and why on the way to generating a path forwards.

I've been working with these apps consistently for a few weeks now, and it feels like I am making better progress, while still having the "competitive" element and the ease of being able to fit in exercises in short spells during the day.

I genuinely think I might have found what I have been looking for to move my Finnish journey forwards.

Kiitos Paljon Suomify!