By the end
What you'll build
- Handle thirty everyday Finnish situations with the right words and register
- Read Finnish social rules — silence, space, directness and the absence of small talk
- Navigate the sauna correctly, including what is and isn't expected of a guest
- Shop, pay and travel in a near-cashless country
- Handle Kela, the henkilötunnus and the practicalities of arriving
- Survive the winter darkness and understand what Finns do about it
Curriculum
What's inside
4 modules · 22 lessons
- 01
First Contact
5 lessons- Silence Is Not Awkward
- Greeting Anyonelistening lab
- Introducing Yourselfspeaking lab
- Word Power: The Survival Fifteenword power
- Reading the Social Rulesfill blank
- 02
Money, Shopping and the Sauna
5 lessons- A Nearly Cashless Country
- At the Shoplistening lab
- The Sauna
- Listening: An Invitation to the Saunalistening lab
- Shopping, Paying and the Saunafill blank
- 03
Getting Around, Winter and Paperwork
6 lessons- Punctuality, Transport and the Queue
- The Darkness and the Light
- Listening: A Winter Conversationlistening lab
- Paperwork and Health
- Living in Finlandfill blank
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Putting It Together
6 lessons- Word Power: Thirty More Survival Wordsword power
- Listening: A Full Daylistening lab
- Flashcards: Survival Finnishflashcard sr
- Final Check: Survival Finnishquiz
- Picture It & Speak — AI Image Studioimage lab
- + 1 more lesson
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
22 lessons across 4 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.