Finnish Course for Immigrants

On Friday November 25 we celebrated the graduation and finishing of our three months long YKI-course

On Wednesday 16 November our Finnish language and integration courses visited the Finnish parliament. This visit was the last part of our course part about Finnish society. In this course, besides the language, we learn about Finnish society and how to integrate and participate in it.

In our Finnish language and integration courses, As A Christian in Finland and YKI-training, we have people from all continents and all around the world. This day gives us the possibility to learn about our different cultures and brings the Finnish and immigrant students together.

Finnish language and integration courses “As a Christian in Finland” and “YKI-training” are your path to the Finnish language, culture and society.

Finnish language and integration courses “As a Christian in Finland” and “YKI-trainig” have started 30 August. There are more than 30 students in these courses combined coming from Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen.

In the autumn there will start two courses: a year-long integration course “As a Christian in Finland”, which has no requirement of previous knowledge in Finnish and a three-month-long YKI-trainig that prepares for the intermediate National Certificate of Language Proficiency (YKI-test).

The Finnish language and integration course “As a Christian in Finland” in Finnish Bible Institute in Kauniainen includes also educational trips in Helsinki region. Understanding the Finnish language is important but also history and culture are significant. We visited Finnish National Museum as a part of our course.

Last week we made a little trip to Espoo museum Glims, that exhibits the historic Finnish farm and countryside milieu.

After training in “As Christian in Finland” language course, you will be able to converse about things that are important to you in Finnish. You will understand how the Finnish society and democracy work. You become an active member of society and find ways of influencing common issues.