Finnish in the society- Language functions and central structures
Language functions
Social interaction
- Mastering Finnish everyday communication culture and familiarity with formal communication culture
- Using Finnish fluently, spontaneously and idiomatically in both formal and informal situations
- Reasonably fluent use and understanding of spoken Finnish, systematically distinguishing between spoken and standard Finnish in your own usage
Telling and describing
- Spontaneous, fluent and precisely descriptive telling about a familiar topic
- Prepared description and sharing of information on a more unfamiliar and abstract topic in a consistent, rather detailed and precise way
- Presenting and justifying your opinions clearly in conversation, also concerning more unfamiliar, general and topical themes
- Describing your personal experiences and abstract, topical themes concisely in writing
Understandingand searching for information in Finnish
- Understanding texts on topical, societal themes and making conclusions on texts that concern unfamiliar themes
- Acquiring information on society, studies and work through various media
- Understanding formal standard Finnish speech on topical themes, creating an overall idea and making conclusions
- Following the main ideas of normal-rate discussion between native Finns
Developing as a language learner
- Knowing your own language proficiency profile and learning strategies; setting goals based on them
- Goal-oriented development of language skills by reading and observing the speech of native Finns
- Development and multifaceted application of literacy and information searching skills
- Regular application of various tools that support learning and language usage
Central structures
Learning to use for example:
- features of formal and informal style
- indirect ways of being polite
- structures of the newspaper language; participle structures, participial phrases
- describing being and roles: essive and translative cases
- comparisons: use and declining of comparative and superlative forms
- lexical variation: transitive and intransitive verbs
- word derivation
Recognising and understanding in context:
- features of the newspaper language: rare cases and structures, more complicated sentence structures
- Finnish idioms