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Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies

The Department

Contact Information:

http://www.helsinki.fi/fus/contact/index.html

Useful Links

Finnish Courses in Helsinki

Finnish courses offered by the Finnish Department to international students are open exclusively to students enrolled at the University of Helsinki. The right to pursue non-graduate studies cannot be granted for completing basic language courses (Skk01 Basic 1 Module in Finnish Language and Culture).

The following institutes offer Finnish Language courses in Helsinki:

Amiedu

Eiran aikuislukio

The Open University of Helsinki
These courses are parallel to those of the Department of Finnish (Skk011 Finnish 1 and Skk012 Finnish 2). Finnish 3 organized by the Department of Finnish begins in September.

Open universities

University of Helsinki Language Centre (Language services)

Helsingin aikuisopisto

Helsingin kaupungin suomenkielinen työväenopisto

Summer University

Summer universities in Finland

Information about Finnish Language and Culture in Internet

General Information about Finland

Virtual Finland
http://virtual.finland.fi/

Finnish Tourist Board
http://www.visitfinland.com/

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stands/8373/finland.html

http://www.genealogia.fi/finnlinks/

http://finland.startkabel.nl/ (in Dutch)

The Nordic FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/nordic-faq/

 

General Information about Finnish Language

Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
http://www.kotus.fi/?l=en&s=1

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.htmll

http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/finnish/finnish.htm

http://www.genealogia.fi/finnlinks/show.php?cid=29

 

Grammar

Finnish Grammar
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/
(in Finnish, English and German)

http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars1.html#finnish

http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/

http://www.verbix.com/languages/finnish.shtml
(about verbs)

 

Internet Courses, Exercises

Tavataan taas!
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/

Suomea, ole hyvä!
http://www.edu.fi/oppimateriaalit/suomeaolehyva/

Ymmärrä suomea!
http://www.edu.fi/oppimateriaalit/ymmarrasuomea/

Keskellä Suomea
http://kielikompassi.jyu.fi/omatila/keskella_suomea/

Supisuomea
http://www.yle.fi/opinportti/supisuomea/

Uuno
http://www.uuno.tamk.fi/

 

Dictionaries and Vocabularies

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/uralic.html#finnish

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/sanak.html

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/sanastot.html

Eurodicautom
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/

http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/groups.html (English)

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/finnish.html (English, French, Spanish)

http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/sve-fin.shtml (Swedish)

http://www.ets.ru/udict-f-r-pocket-r.htm (Russian)

 

About Culture

Finnish Literature Society
http://www.finlit.fi/index.htm

The Information Center for the Kalevala and Karelian Culture
http://www.juminkeko.fi/

Agricola
http://www.utu.fi/agricola/ (History, in Finnish)

Kulttuuri.net
http://www.webinfo.fi/helsinki/kulttuuri.net/ (Art)

YLE news
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/ (News)

onlinenewspapers.com
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/finland.htm
Finnish newspapers on-line

National Audiovisual Archive
http://www.kava.fi/

The Finnish Film Foundation
http://www.ses.fi/

Electric Verses
http://www.electricverses.net/sakeet.php
Modern Finnish poetry

Finnish Music Information Centre
http://www.fimic.fi/

Other Useful Addresses

The City of Helsinki

The Ministry of Education

Centre for International Mobility CIMO

AIKE group - Aikuiskoulutuksen Kehittämisyksikkö

Society for the Study of Finnish (Kotikielen Seura)

http://www.kotus.fi/ (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)

Finno-Ugrian Society

Finnish Literature Society