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amine
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From Morocco

Post by amine » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:15 am

hello!!

im from morocco i come to finish my bachlor's and i want to make my master in finland so i want to know if i can study english or Finnish language course at any school before i study my masters. :D

i want to make my inscription to study englishfor one year maybe and then make my master in english or maybe study finnois and make a master with finnois langue :)

anyone plz can help me to make my inscription in school to study english or finnois course

thank you for helping :thumbsup:



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Re: From Morocco

Post by sammy » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:30 am

Sorry... but no such "pre-Master's language learning year" programmes really exist... when you apply for a Master's course, you will need to be pretty fluent in the language in question (Finnish or English) already. See e.g. http://www.universityadmissions.fi for instructions on how to apply.

You could, of course, take part in short-term Finnish courses at summer universities - http://www.kesayliopistot.fi - an ordinary "tourist" visa would suffice - but it is usually not possible to get a (student) residence permit, which you'd need if your stay in Finland was longer than three months, based on language courses only. Generally, you can only get such a student residence permit if you are accepted into a degree programme at some Finnish university.

To be honest it's not a realistic idea to "learn Finnish" in one year to such a level that one could be accepted to a Finnish-language Master's programme - unless you are a linguistic genius. If your Finnish skills are zero at the moment, even after a year of full-time studies, attending university lectures in Finnish might be a bit like as if you had been beamed up to a zhnok-walloping academy on the planet Neptune.

And it's nearly as cold here, too :wink:

If you're admitted to an English-language Master's programme, however, then you can also take Finnish language classes at the university's language centre so as to learn a bit of Finnish to help you in your everyday life here.

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Re: From Morocco

Post by Hank W. » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:07 pm

amine wrote:i want to make my inscription to study englishfor one year maybe and then make my master in english
Yes. Do that. Maybe in Morocco. Learn what "READ THIS FIRST" means. Then waste your/their/our time.
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Re: From Morocco

Post by firativerson » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:28 am

damn hank :) easy .. u cant yell at people just because u help them..

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Re: From Morocco

Post by Hank W. » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:50 am

So you'd whisper at the toddler putting the fork into the socket? I'm just upset the fuses cost too much :twisted:
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