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Basics of Finnish - IE23SP (5 cr)

Code: IX00BF80-3003

General information


Enrollment

01.08.2023 - 15.09.2023

Timing

01.08.2023 - 31.12.2023

Credits

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages

  • English

Teachers

  • Sandor Kovacs

Student groups

  • IE23SP
    Mechanical Engineering

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 based on YKI 2-6 results.

Student workload

Lectures 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 1-7.
Moodle materials