My Finnish - Language functions and central structures
Language functions
Social interaction
- Introduction to Finnish communication culture
- Handling informal daily situations in Finnish
- Running simple everyday errands in Finnish
- Recognising spoken language as a phenomenon
Telling and describing
- Sharing the basics about yourself
- Looking for a solution to small everyday problems
- Expressing basic opinions
Understandingand searching for information in Finnish
- Picking up familiar words, the theme and concrete information from texts meaningful to you
- Recognising familiar words
Developing as a language learner
- Becoming aware of your personal learning strategies and developing them, setting personal goals
- Getting to know the environment, understanding its significance and utilising it in language acquisition
- Utilising context, body language and other visual support
- Getting to know different tools that support learning
Central structures
Learning to use for example:
- different types of interrogative clauses
- present tense of verbs and basic types of the simple past tense
- expressions of place: where? where from? where to?
- personal pronouns, the most common noun types (e.g. words ending in -nen, s-words, i-words), partitive case, basic form of plural (pyörä > pyörät), consonant gradation (nk > ng, kk > k)
- ‘Minulla on’ -possessive structure and the genitive case
- expressions of necessity
- expressions of time, basic conjunctions
- forms of spoken and written language
Recognising and understanding in context:
- the conditional, simple past negative, noun types, object in a sentence
