After successful completion of the course students will be able to pronounce Finnish quite correctly, understand and use short and simply-structured Finnish expressions that concern some of the most common matters and situations related to everyday life (telling one’s family, telling the time, buying and paying, timetables, food and menu, working and studying). They can shortly discuss about these matters and understand short texts concerning such topics. After this course they are willing to study more Finnish, because they understand that only that way they can achieve a level of language skills that makes possible to get job in Finland.

Finnish for Foreigners 1

- basics of the Finnish language: verb types. partitive case, local cases, k-p-t-changes
- structural exercises
- pronunciation exercises
- vocabulary exercises
- conversational and drama exercises
- listening comprehension exercises
- reading comprehension exercises
- written exercises.

Students have been able to complete all the assignments acceptably. They can exchange greetings/farewells, introduce oneself, name a few objects and copy some words that they have learned. It is hard for them to attend a simple conversation or create a short text. Their pronunciation causes difficulties to understand meanings of produced speech.

Students have an active attitude towards studying Finnish language showing that by completing course tasks according to the schedule. They are able to cope in most common everyday situations, which have been studied during the course. Students are able to write brief messages (e.g. e-mail, text message, and post card) in Finnish and are able to pronounce Finnish clearly enough. Students’ mother tongue may have an effect in pronunciation and/or sentence structure, but it doesn’t cause big problems to understand the meaning of messages.

Students have a positive and active attitude towards learning language. They can pronounce Finnish distinctively and are able to use suitable and varied expressions in everyday situations using grammar mostly correct way. Students can participate in a conversation asking and responding to questions about topics studied in the course. They can write simple descriptions or stories and recombine words and phrases into new sentences.

Failed: Students have attended contact lessons less than 80%. They have not completed course assignments because of lack of or activity or gained skills. They don’t speak and write and also understand Finnish more than a couple of words.

This course is for students whose mother language is not Finnish and who have completed a course Finnish for Foreigners 1.