Study Guide

Teaching methods

On this course, you will learn basic Finnish language.

During the course, you will practice pronunciation and learn the alphabet, numbers, greetings, days of the week, months, and seasons.

You will learn to talk about yourself, your family, your typical day, your apartment, as well as the weather, food, and work.

You will learn to ask questions and use common verbs, adjectives, gradation, plural, genitive, partitive, locative cases, and pronouns.

Evaluation is based on the final exam points:
50% = grade 1
60% = grade 2
70% = grade 3
80% = grade 4
90% = grade 5.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL based on the certificate: YKI test or other proof of A1.3 level language proficiency

Student workload

The study requires 135 hours:
- lectures on campus 50 h
- independent study: preparation for lectures and mandatory exercises in Moodle 73 h
- preparation for the final exam 8 h
- final exam 4 h.

Practical training and working life cooperation

During the course, you will learn job titles and vocabulary related to working life.

Materials

Moodle course
Gehring, Sonja & Heinzmann, Sanni 2020. Suomen mestari 1. Finn Lectura

Further information

The course grade does not affect the granting of the scholarship.

Teaching methods

This is the first Finnish course. You will learn to use basic grammar, and will practise listening, reading, and speaking.

Topics:
Introducing, the alphabet, days of the week, numbers, countries and nationalities, weather, seasons of the year, family, daily routine, living arrangements, travelling.

Grammar:
Personal pronouns, the "olla" verb, consonant gradation, verb types, interrogatives, the genitive case, the -t plural form, the partitive case, I have, locative cases.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL is possible according to YKI 2-6 result.

Student workload

Seminars 24 x 2 h
Exercises in Moodle (self-studying) 77 h
Final exam 2h + preparation 8 h

Materials

Sonja Gehring & Sanni Heinzmann, 2020. Suomen mestari 1, chapters 1-6.
Moodle-materials

Teaching methods

This is the first Finnish course. You will learn to use basic grammar, and will practise listening, reading, and speaking.

Topics:
Introducing, the alphabet, days of the week, numbers, countries and nationalities, weather, seasons of the year, family, daily routine, living arrangements, travelling.

Grammar:
Personal pronouns, the "olla" verb, consonant gradation, verb types, interrogatives, the genitive case, the -t plural form, the partitive case, I have, locative cases.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL is possible according to YKI 2-6 result.

Student workload

Seminars 24 x 2 h
Exercises in Moodle (self-studying) 77 h
Final exam 2h + preparation 8 h

Materials

Sonja Gehring & Sanni Heinzmann, 2020. Suomen mestari 1, chapters 1-6.
Moodle-materials

Teaching methods

Learning methods include lectures and activating exercises in class in addition to independent studying according to the instructions.

The primary completion method is attending the lessons and taking the exams.

The assessment is based on the exams and the assignments.

Student workload

Lectures and class room activities 53 h,
Exams 3 h
Independent studying and doing assignments and exercises, preparing for the exams 79 h

Materials

Coursebook: Suomen mestari 1 (Finn Lectura), authors: Gehring and Heinzmann (2020 edition): Chapters 1-7,
material in Moodle