Description

Welcome to our Beginner Finnish Course! This course unit includes 8 lessons spread over 8 weeks. Online classes are conducted via Zoom, with each session lasting 1.5 hours. Throughout the course, you will find language exercises on our platform to reinforce the lesson content, along with weekly homework assignments to submit. The teacher will provide personalized feedback every week to students who complete their assignments. Once you register, you will receive credentials to log in to the website and access your course materials and Zoom meeting links.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Handle daily situations and ask relevant questions.
• Understand basic expressions from slow, clear speech.
• Introduce themselves briefly and share personal information, even if speech is slow and pronunciation is not perfect.
• Display knowledge of numbers, the alphabet, the verb “to be,” and personal pronouns in their basic forms.
• Gain insight into Finnish culture and society.
• Topics covered: alphabet, self introductions, days of the week, numbers, colors, food words, partitive, genitive (I), adhesive (I have) Verb types 1-5 (practice verb types 1-3), weather, seasons, family, adjectives, working life vocabulary and much more!