This post is for you if:
you’re a beginner or intermediate language learner struggling to remember vocabulary,
you feel overwhelmed by ALL OF THE WORDS you could be learning,
end up not learning most of them because you forget what you learn,
end up not learning most of them because you’re so overwhelmed by the massive amounts of vocab.

I don’t remember when kaunis became beautiful; all I know is that it didn’t start out that way.

“How do you say beautiful in Finnish?”

“Kaunis”

“Cow-ou-nis? Seriously? It sounds like cow.”

And there it was. My first reaction to the word beautiful in Finnish: it sounds like cow.