short term:

• remembering when to use tai or vai
• tässä/tuossa/täällä/tuolla, i keep getting them confused.
• what do common phrases literally translate to?
• ✔ counting beyond kaksitoista (12)
• talk about age
• expressing ownership (beyond minulla on...)
• vocab
  • family
  • body parts, and how to describe them
  • days of the week/months
  • transport
  • hobbies/activities
• question words, and how they inflect
• when to ACTUALLY use the partitive case, especially for adjectives

long term

• the noun cases, what they are, when to use them.
  • finnish infamously has 15 noun cases but, as i understand, "only" 9 of them are commonly used.
• types of nouns, i.e. noun endings
• types of verbs, i.e. verb endings (in the infinitive)
• consonant gradation
• HOW many verb tenses?????
• just...learn more verbs, in general.

resources

• duolingo
  • a good introduction, and great for little-and-often practice
  • downside: introduces concepts without explaining anything. it introduces the partitive case but doesn't explain when to use it or what it even is.
• uusi kielemme
• my aunt nina. i can practice on her. lol.
• james gave me a teach yourself finnish book, which i don't think he had ever used.