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.