Study Guide

Assessment scale

1-5

Implementation and methods of teaching

Suomi with Love 2 is an online elementary course of Finnish language. Suomi with Love 1 is a 100 % independent study course, provided on Moodle and it has maximum a few meetings on Zoom. The final exam will be held in Exam Room at the campus (Lappeenranta, Lahti, Kouvola, Mikkeli tai in another city, which has Exam Room system for higher education). Meeting times and a link to Zoom can be found in Moodle. You can register for the course until 9 November 2025.
Course schedule: ALL assignments and the final exam must be completed by the end of the course on 14.12.2025.
Please NOTE: Students make their own schedule. The workload of the course is approximately 81 hours, which students should take into account when planning their studies. As the course is entirely self-directed, it requires the student to be persistent, self-disciplined and persevering.

Timing and attendance

The course must be completed during one semester. The course schedule will be announced on Moodle.
Course schedule: ALL assignments and the final exam must be completed by the end of the course on 14.12.2025.

Learning material and recommended literature

All the material is online, mostly on Moodle. To complete the course you will need a working computer with a working microphone and camera and sufficient internet access.

Learning environment

The course is on Moodle and has maximum few meetings on Zoom. The final exam is in Exam Room at the campus (Lappeenranta, Lahti, Kouvola, Mikkeli tai in another city, which has Exam Room system for higher education).

Student time use and work load

The course is 3 ECT, equivalent to about 81 hours of work.

Contents

The course content will be the following:
- pronunciation
- genitive and partitive cases
- telling about one’s everyday life
- weather, seasons and months
- food and drink
- shopping, restaurant and café
- time expressions
- verb types 1–5 and present tense.

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

Finnish 1- or Suomi with Love 1 -course or equivalent skills in Finnish.
Please NOTE: Students make their own schedule. The workload of the course is approximately 81 hours, which students should take into account when planning their studies. As the course is entirely self-directed, it requires the student to be persistent, self-disciplined and persevering.

Assessment criteria

The course includes a number of assessed tasks in Moodle (grading: pass/failed) and a final exam (grading: 0 - 5) in Exam Room at the campus (Lappeenranta, Lahti, Kouvola, Mikkeli tai in another city, which has Exam Room system for higher education).

Assessment scale

1-5

Failed (0)

The student has not reached the learning objectives.

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

Student
- recognizes and can use some phrases studied in the course
- recognizes and uses some time expressions
- tells about her/his everyday life by few sentences
- can recognize and use few words studied in the course
- can write few sentences in Finnish on a given topic
- pronounces Finnish quite understandably.

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

Student
- understands and can use many phrases
- understands and uses basic time expressions
- tells many things about her/his everyday life
- understands and uses the basic vocabulary studied in the course
- can write a short text in Finnish on a given topic
- pronounces Finnish understandably.

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

Student
- understands and can use all or almost all phrases studied in the course
- understands and can use all or almost all time expressions studied in the course
- tells about her/his everyday life in quite versatile way
- understands and uses vocabulary studied in the course quite extensively
- can write a text in Finnish on a given topic with only few errors
- pronounces Finnish understandably.