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Beginners' Finnish Course 1 (AVOIN YO), Summer University of Northern Ostrobothnia
The course is organized by our partner, Summer University of Northern Ostrobothnia. For more information about the course and enrollment, please visit: Beginners' Finnish Course 1, 3 op (OY) / Pohjois-Pohjanmaan kesäyliopisto.
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This lower elementary course aims to help students to learn communication skills in ordinary everyday situations. During the course, students broaden their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar and principles of pronunciation. They also practise to understand easy Finnish talk about everyday subjects, and reading and writing short and simple texts/messages.
The topics and communicative situations that are covered in the course are the following:
- talking about oneself, one's family, studies and daily routines, as well as asking about these things from others
- food, drink and transactions in the grocery store
- accommodation and describing it; colours and adjectives.
The structures studied are the following:
- verb types
- basics of the change of the consonants k, p and t in nouns
- basics of the partitive and genitive cases
- possessive structure
- some declension types for nouns (word types) and the basics of the local cases.
Target level after this course is A1.2.