Spaced repetition
Reviews spread over time beat cramming. Each word comes back just before you would forget it, scheduled by FSRS from your own answers.
Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted and Rohrer, 2006 · Psychological BulletinLearn Finnish from zero to B2.
We took the best aspects across language learning pedagogy to design the last course you’ll ever need. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing all in one place, complementing each other to develop real language skills.
Twelve new words. Twelve new places.
Every word arrives with a photograph taken in Finland, native audio and an example sentence. You never know which corner of Finland comes next; you only know the word will stay. A quick quiz at the end tells you how many did. Hei. Kiitos. Hauska tavata.
Catch each word just before it slips.
Type the missing word in a sentence you have met, then say how it felt: again, hard, good or easy. Spaced repetition (FSRS) does the rest, bringing every word back just before you would lose it. Nothing you have learned is let go.
A dialogue you control.
Six to ten lines between named speakers, set in a reading face. Translations stay hidden until you choose to look, and any word opens to its meaning and form. You decide how much help you take.
Say it out loud. Nobody is grading.
Seven short lessons on long vowels, double consonants and ä, ö, y come first. The app shows what it heard, and you choose what to try again. Then a guided conversation with a tutor that uses only words you know and explains every slip.
One lesson a day. Tomorrow’s is waiting.
A fifteen to thirty minute lesson in native Finnish voices, downloaded to your phone and yours to keep: the conversation, the day's words with space to repeat, and old words back just in time. When it ends, the next one opens tomorrow, because the spacing is the point. Kuuntele ja toista. Huomenna lisää.
Finish the steps and the day counts
One unit a day, never a pile
Your progress lives in your own iCloud
A leaderboard you can leave anytime
Nothing asks for a word you have not met
156 units from your first hei to B2
Every word has a place.
A café window, a birch path, a sauna porch, a market stall. Each new word adds a picture to the Finland in your head, and you never know which one comes next. You remember the place, and the word comes with it.
Built on how memory works.
There are no experience points, no coins and no decaying scores. The daily rhythm, the streak and the review schedule are the only mechanics, and each one is there because the research says it works.
Retrieval practice
Recalling a word strengthens memory far more than rereading it. That is why Review asks you to type the blank instead of flipping a card.
Roediger and Karpicke, 2006 · Psychological ScienceDaily practice and output
Speaking and writing, not just listening, build fluency. A short session at the same time each day builds the habit, so the app prepares one lesson a day and reminds you once.
Swain, 1985 · Lally, van Jaarsveld, Potts and Wardle, 2010 · European Journal of Social PsychologyImmersive, dual-coded learning
Just as children learn through immersion, lessons reinforce recall through pictures, reading, writing, listening and speaking. A word tied to an image is stored twice.
Paivio, 1971 and 1986 · dual coding theoryA path, not a pile.
156 units in five phases, one a day. Each phase ends in something you can say you can do, not a level on a chart.
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Sounds and survival
Pre-A1 · 12 units · 300 words
You can read any Finnish aloud with the right length and stress, and introduce yourself in six sentences.
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Daily life
A1 · 32 units · 1,000 words
You can talk about your day for five minutes and write a hundred-word message to a friend.
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Stories and the past
A2 · 38 units · 2,500 words
You can tell a story about last weekend and follow slow spoken Finnish without subtitles.
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Opinions
B1 · 38 units · 4,500 words
You can hold an opinion for twenty minutes, write a 300-word argument, and switch between spoken and written Finnish.
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Independence
B2 · 36 units · 8,000 words
You can talk unscripted for half an hour at natural speed, write a formal letter, and read Helsingin Sanomat and a novel.
One plan for everything. Three days free.
Suomi Daily Pro is a subscription through the App Store. Every lesson, every listening lesson, the tutor and the sounds course are included. Three days free, with no countdown and no offer that ends. Cancel anytime.
Monthly
$29.99
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- Everything in Suomi Daily Pro
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Yearly
$299
per year after a three-day free trial, about $24.92 a month
- Everything in Suomi Daily Pro
- iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud sync
- Cancel anytime in your Apple Account
Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Prices are in US dollars; local prices are set by the App Store. See the Terms of Use.
Before you start
I know no Finnish at all. Where do I start?
At the beginning. Unit 1 is Tervehdykset, greetings, and before you speak a word the app teaches you how Finnish sounds: the five plain vowels, ä, ö and y, long vowels and double consonants. Finnish is read exactly as it is written, so once your ear and mouth know the sounds, everything else is vocabulary and patience.
How long does a day take?
About twenty minutes for the five steps, plus the listening lesson, which runs fifteen to thirty minutes and is made for a walk or a commute. The minimum day that keeps your streak is Review plus either Read or Speak.
Who are the voices?
Native Finnish voices, a woman's and a man's, so you hear both registers. Every listening lesson is ready to download to your device and plays offline.
Who corrects my Finnish?
A tutor built into the app. When you write or speak, it corrects your Finnish, explains the slip and holds the guided conversation using only words you have met. It is good but not infallible, and it is not a certified assessment. Our server does not keep what you write or say.
What does zero to B2 mean, and how long will it take?
B2 is the Common European Framework level at which you can follow the news, argue a point and read a novel with a dictionary nearby. The course is 156 units in five phases, one unit a day. The curriculum plans about fifteen months of daily practice from the first greeting to B2, with review all the way.
Which devices?
iPhone and iPad on iOS 18 or later, and Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later) on macOS 15 or later, where it runs as the iPad app. Your progress syncs through your own iCloud account. Sign in with Apple is optional; you can also keep everything on one device.
What happens to my data?
Your progress lives in your iCloud. Typed and spoken text passes through our server to be corrected or spoken, and is not kept by us. The leaderboard shows your name, city and photo, and you can turn it off in your profile at any time. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Is it a game?
No. There is a streak, a daily gate and a review that knows when you are about to forget, because the research supports each of them. There are no points, no coins, no decaying scores and no timers on the paywall. The day counts when you finish the steps; miss one and the streak waits for you tomorrow.
Who else is learning?
A leaderboard ranks learners by streak, words in review and minutes practised, with the name, city and photo from your profile. You can leave it at any time with one switch in your profile.
Where do I get it?
On the App Store. Suomi Daily is free to download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro starts with three days free. Your first lesson is ready as soon as you open it.
Your first lesson is ready.
Download Suomi Daily, start your three free days, and meet your first twelve Finnish words today. Twenty minutes from now you can greet someone in Finnish.
Tervetuloa. Aloitetaan tänään.
Welcome. Let's start today.
Suomi Daily
Free to download · Pro free for three days
iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later. Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later.