Melkein hiljaa
Almost quiet. You are reading the pauses correctly and still hearing the small words as stronger than they are - which is the normal direction for an English speaker to be wrong in.
The three to fix are nii, joo and joo joo. One acknowledges, one agrees, and the doubled one is politely asking you to wrap up.
From How Finnish Is Your Silence? - 6 lines of real spoken Finnish on Finnish IRL.
One word.
Every morning.
One real Finnish word every morning - what it means, what the book form is, and when Finns actually say it.