Finking Cap Podcast

Learn Finnish on the go and practise listening to Finnish with me! Harjoittele suomen kuuntelemista kanssani! Tässä podcastissa kuulet helpohkoa suomea yleis- ja puhekielellä. Opi uusia sanoja samalla kun lenkkeilet, siivoat tai laitat ruokaa!

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Finking Cap Podcast: A chatty episode with Veera on frienship, travel and her job hunt shenanigans

Welcome to the Finking Cap Podcast, where you can learn Finnish by listening AND following the transcript on the video. In this episode, I have a special guest: my best friend Veera, who I went to school with and travelled Europe with. We talk about our friendship, travel and Veera's hilarious job interviews. It's a chatty episode, and we may speak a little faster than you've previously heard on this podcast. If you have any questions about the Finnish expressions used in this podcast, pop a que...

Jun 28, 2025•30 min

Finnish sauna culture

A new episode of the Finking Cap Podcast is out! Listen to my friend Hanna and I talk about the Finnish sauna: are you supposed to go in naked, who goes with who, how is sauna at summer cottage different?Learn Finnish by listening to this podcast, in which we speak slightly slower Finnish than we usually do. You can read the transcript as you listen.

Mar 20, 2025•19 min

Visiting a Finnish home - Kylässä suomalaisessa kodissa

Moi kaikki! Tervetuloa Finking Cap Podcastiin! Alkaa toinen kausi. Tässä ensimmäisessä jaksossa minulla on vieraana ystäväni Hanna Korf. Me juttelemme kyläilystä ja siitä, millaista on vierailla suomalaisessa kodissa. Puhumme myös erilaisista tavoista tervehtiä, kahvikulttuurista ja pienimuotoisista kulttuurishokeista. Saatat huomata, että puhumme jaksossa talvesta. Tämä jakso äänitettiin jo viime talvena. En ole ollut varma, miten minun pitäisi kehittää tätä podcastia. Olisin tosi iloinen, jos ...

Oct 17, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Finnish pronunciation with Päivi Virkkunen

Mikä suomen ääntämisessä on suomenoppijoille vaikeaa ja miksi? Tässä jaksossa vieraanani on Päivi Virkkunen, joka pyörittää omaa yritystä nimeltä Ääntämisklinikka. Päivin löytää osoitteesta https://www.aantamisklinikka.fi/ ja Instagramista käyttäjänä @aantamisklinikka.

Jun 07, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 6

YKI talk with Mari Nikonen from Ask a Finnish Teacher

Mari Nikonen is a Finnish teacher who runs her own language teaching business, Ask a Finnish Teacher. In this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, Mari joins me to talk about the YKI language test that many Finnish learners in Finland are or will be familiar with. Listen to Mari talk about the test (in Finnish) and get her top tips for getting ready for YKI. Here are some links that Mari suggests you have a look at when you're preparing for the big Y: Puhumisen YKI-kurssi helmi-maaliskuussa 2024:...

Jan 28, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Feeling like an outsider in a foreign country

Tässä jaksossa puhutaan ulkopuolisuuden tunteesta vieraassa maassa suomeksi. In this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, you will hear Finnish expressions related to falling in love with a new culture, the culture shock that follows and how it feels to not quite understand all the jokes in a different language. If you're learning Finnish and sometimes feel that you can't be "yourself" in Finnish, then you might relate to what I talk about in this episode.

Oct 24, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Finking Cap Podcast episode 3: Talking about bugs in Finnish

Finland is the land of mosquitoes! Suomi on hyttysten maa! At least for a couple of months a year. Ainakin pari kuukautta vuodesta. Bugs are a great topic for small talk, especially if you spend a lot of time outdoors. In this podcast episode, you'll hear me chat about spiders and mosquitoes in Finnish. You will hear Finnish expressions that you can use to talk about our little friends that rock up every Finnish summer to delight us, for example: - säikähdän = I get startled - Hyi! = Ugh / yuk! ...

Jul 27, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Growing up without a mobile phone

Hello, dear Finnish learners! In this episode, I talk about what it was like growing up without a mobile phone in the 90s. Learn Finnish vocabulary and expressions related to communication and ways to talk about "how it was way back". Get the free PDF transcript and English translation: https://finkingcap.com/blog/podcast-episode-2-growing-up-without-mobile-phone/

Jul 07, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Moomin characters and ways to describe their personalities in Finnish

Transcript and English translation in my blog at ⁠https://finkingcap.com/blog/podcast-episode-1-moomins-personality/⁠ . It’s my first ever episode! Tervetuloa! In this episode of Finking Cap podcast, you will hear me describe some of the Moomin characters in Finnish. You will learn useful Finnish adjectives and expressions to describe people (or Moomins!). I speak a slow(ish) mix of spoken and standard Finnish....

Jun 20, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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