By the end
What you'll build
- Use Finnish expressions and proverbs naturally and understand them at speed
- Explain sisu the way Finns use it, not the way it is marketed
- Recognise and produce Finnish deadpan humour
- Build an argument for a room that will let you finish and then test you
- Hold a room: pacing, deliberate pauses, presence and recovery
- Deliver a three-minute signature talk in Finnish
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 14 lessons
- 01
Idiom, Sisu and Colour
5 lessons- The Expressions Nobody Teaches Youmetaphor idiom
- Sisu — What It Actually Means
- Reading the Registerfill blank
- Finnish Humour
- Listening: Deadpan in Conversationlistening lab
- 02
Building an Argument
4 lessons- How a Finnish Room Wants to Be Persuaded
- Argument Structurefill blank
- Speaking Lab: Argue a Positionspeaking lab
- Listening: Someone Who Argues Welllistening lab
- 03
Voice, Presence and the Signature Talk
5 lessons- Holding a Finnish Roompresence lab
- Building the Signature Talkspeech template
- Deliver Your Signature Talkspeech practice
- Tongue Twisters: Fluency at Speedtongue twister
- Final Check: Finnish on Stagequiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
14 lessons across 3 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.