Intensive Finnish course with housing

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shrimp67
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Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by shrimp67 » Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:21 am

Hi,
couple days ago I saw an ad in the newspaper about a place which offers intensive about 6 months long Finnish language courses in a small place close to Helsinki.
It includes dorms and everything, and supposed to bring you from knowing zero Finnish to fluency.

Unfortunately I didn't take the ad with me and I've forgotten the name of the place or the organizers.

Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
I tried gooogling, but couldn't find it.

Thanks!



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jahasjahas
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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by jahasjahas » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:27 am

Which newspaper? Old issues of Metro, ads included, are available online: http://www3.vartti.fi/lehdet/

shrimp67
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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by shrimp67 » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:29 pm

Awesome, thanks!

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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by shrimp67 » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:00 pm

Found it!
It's this company:
http://www.larkkulla.net/en/languages/finnish

Can someone recommend? Heard good/bad things?
If I take the beginner's and continuation course is it enough to pass the YKI 3 exam for a citizenship?
I've been living here for 10 years with my Finnish wife but still don't speak Finnish, and I would like to get a citizenship because I'd like to start a career in the police, and it's only possible for citizens.

Thanks.

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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by Sami-Is-Boss » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:13 pm

This looks brilliant - wouldn't mind a go at it! It will probably be very expensive though

shrimp67
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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by shrimp67 » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:46 pm

According to their ad it's 440e/ month including housing and meals.
Not a bad deal, even if you're not attending the classes at all :D

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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by Rosamunda » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:09 am

Now I know why all of a sudden there are so many Russians in Karis.

Karis is a very small town and is predominantly Swedish speaking, so I guess it's an odd place to learn Finnish.

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Re: Intensive Finnish course with housing

Post by amrabobakr » Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:19 pm

Hi,
I will start a long course of finnish language at Lärkkulla language accademy this months. I would like to know if you had the course or not and what is your experience. Thank you


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