Study Guide

Teaching methods

When you also use Finnish outside of class, your language skills will increase and strengthen. Activity in your doing of the weekly exercises will lead you to a powerful basement of Finnish.

Exam schedules

You can find the deadlines for the weekly assignments in Itslearning. Assignments have to be completed during the course.

International connections

Meetings, working independently on itslearning platform, group work, pair work.

When learning, Finnish is preferred as soon as possible to use learned sentences and phrases.

Student workload

Totally 135 h of work for the student

Meetings, working independently on Itslearning platform, group work, pair work.

Content scheduling

After the course
- your pronunciation is understandable
- you will be able to understand short messages, simple speech and follow the discussion about your own life and family plans
- you can distinguish between topic changes in TV news
- you know how to start and end a short dialogue
- you will master basic vocabulary and many key structures (such as past forms and conjunctions).
- you will understand the main ideas of short texts and some details of a couple of paragraphs of text based on the context
- you are able to write short, simple messages, which can be personal letters, notes and e-mails related to everyday situations,
- you can use specific vocabulary related to basic needs, basic time formats and simple conjunctions (and,
but) connected parallel sentences.

Participation in the course requires at least A1 proficiency in Finnish.

Further information

The platform Itslearning
During the course will be used Finnish as much as possible, but also the L1:s of the group members and English will be invited to the discussions.

riia.lamminmaki@turkuamk.fi

Evaluation scale

H-5