As a test to see how easy it would be to implement Oahpa for a new language, I decided to do so with already existing morphological and syntactic analysis tools and data for Finnish. I hope to spend a little time improving it in the next few weeks, 'cause it'll certainly benefit some Finnish learners out there. :)

Try it here: http://finoahpa.donchaknow.com/oahpa/

Oahpa is a collection of language learning games, which range from inflecting words to vocabulary building, to using word inflections in the context of sentences. For languages this is particularly important, because words are inflected in specific ways for certain types of sentences which take learners a while to grasp. For instance, the case of the object of verbs may vary depending on what the verb is. pitää plus partitive means 'hold', while pitää plus elative means 'like'. Similarly, if you say "I feel happy", the form that 'happy' takes differs from if you use it in a sentence like "I am happy."

The original Oahpa games are available in Northern Sámi and (coming soon) Southern Sámi, and they, like the Finnish test version, are based on morphological analysis tools which can generate all word forms given a specific word; as well as syntactic analysis tools which (generally) will mark words as subjects or objects, but also provide much more detailed information such as what verbs agree with. These analysis tools are then used to analyze sentences that learners type to give feedback on common issues, such as verb agreement, case usage and so on.

Although the Finnish Oahpa has only two exercises, I'll post some updates if I carry over more games from Northern Sámi Oahpa. In the meantime, happy inflecting!