The Finnish alphabet

Learn To read Finnish:

 Let's start with the alphabet. Finnish alphabet has 29 letters:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ, three more letters than the English one.
The three extra letters are Å, Ä, and Ö. In Finnish, the letter Å is called 'the Swedish O' and it's not really used, except in Swedish names. Ä and Ö are, unlike in English, used a lot in Finnish.

Finnish is very easy to learn to read, because usually there is only one way to read a letter. Finnish spelling is very phonetic. There are exceptions though, but let's not talk about them now.

Let's start with the letter I. It's always pronounced a lot like the E in the English word me.

The letters B, F,  L, M, N, and V are pronounced mostly the same in English and Finnish.
That means:
Bi is pronounced like the word be in English.
Fi is a lot like fee.
Li is a lot like lee
Mi, a lot like me.
Vi, like the name of the letter V.

The letters G, H, S, X are next:

G is pronounced like the g in get or go (not like the g in cage or gene.)
Gi is pronounced a lot like gee in the word geek.

H is pronounced like the H in heat.
Hi, is pronounced like hee in heel.

S is pronounced like S in miss or case (not like the S in cheese or toes)
Si, a lot like see.

X is pronounced like X in the name of the letter.
Xi , like xi in taxi.

Then the letters J, P, K, T, which are probably the most difficult of the consonants:
J is pronounced like y in yellow.
Ji, a bit like yi in yiddish.

P is NOT pronounced like the P in pink. It's pronounced like the P in spin, without the aspiration (breathing out)

Same with T and K.
T is pronounced like T in stick, not like T in tick.
K is pronounced like K in skin, not like K in kin.

Pi, is pronounced like pee in speed.
Ti, like tee in steel
Ki, like ki in ski

Then we are almost finished with the consonants.
We are left with CDQRWZ.

C, q, w, z are letters that only appear in loanwords, where they are usually pronounced like in the original language.
D is pronounced much like the English D.
R is the only sound, for which there is no similar sound in English. It's pronounced much like the Spanish R but with the tongue further back in the mouth.

Then there is ng. NG is pronounced like ng in sing, not like ng in finger.

So now practice: Ni mi li vi bi fi gi hi si ji pi ki ti di ri