Pochissimi immigrati adulti in Finlandia raggiungono mai il finlandese di livello C – e la maggior parte non si sente nemmeno nemmeno parlare di coloro che lo fanno.
Deborah è uno dei pochi. Si trasferì in Finlandia nel 2021 e in soli 3 anni, imparò abbastanza finlandese per essere accettata nella scuola di giurisprudenza dell’Università di Helsinki. Ha raggiunto la fluidità a livello di C in soli 3 anni, il tutto incinta, la genitorialità di un neonato e si adattava a un paese e clima completamente nuovo.
In questo "Come ho imparato finlandese" Intervista, parliamo di:
- Come ha superato il terribile altopiano intermedio
- Perché la maggior parte delle lezioni di lingua non era abbastanza
- Perché l’integrazione è una strada a due vie
- Metodi concreti, piani di studio e routine di vita reale che l’hanno aiutata a superare l’esame di lingua governativa avanzata (Valtionhallinnon Kielitutkinnot VKT)
- Come la sua mentalità l’ha aiutata a superare
Questa intervista fa parte di "Come ho imparato finlandese"una serie di interviste senza scopo di lucro in cui parlo con immigrati adulti che hanno raggiunto una fluidità finlandese avanzata. Tutti condividono ciò che ha funzionato per loro in modo da poter scegliere i metodi che funzionano per te.
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From Zero Finnish to Finnish Law School in 3 Years – How Deborah Learned Finnish
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Omg you’re spamming this everywhere
Impressive achievement!
Oh great, now I feel even worse about my progress in learning the language 🙁
Kudos to Debora, though. Good job! 👍
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It is written that it takes about 3 years to learn fluent Finnish and about 5 to sound like a native. It just takes motivation, like with all languages.
Finnish is not an impossibly difficult language. There are language difficulty categories for English speakers:
[https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/blog/fsi-language-difficulty/](https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/blog/fsi-language-difficulty/)
category 1: 24 weeks – for example Swedish
category 2: 30 weeks – for example German
category 3: 36 weeks – for example Malaysian
category 4: 44 weeks – for example Finnish, Estonian, Hindi, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Russian
category 5: 88 weeks – for example Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean
As one can see, the difficult ones in category 5 are such that lots of people learn. Nobody says it is impossible to learn Chinese, Japanene or Arabic, right? Finnish takes about 50% more effort than learning German (44 vs 30 weeks). Lots of people learn Swedish and German in Finnish school. Nobody says it is impossible.
Motivation. Motivation. Motivation.
There was a similar very positive news (in HS?) about an immigrant child who moved to Finland and learned Finnish so she could pass matriculation exam (ylioppilaskoe) in Finnish. Again, good work! I think those good performers are just not often mentioned in news. Just like all those people from other countries working in Finland – lots of them speak good Finnish. I would guess similarly a Finnish person moving to Japan or China would not make news even though they learn the local (much more difficult) language.
I call paskanmarja.
Insane determination to do this. Makes me feel like I made too many excuses
I was an exchange student, I learned passable Finnish in four months. After that it was just picking up vocabulary. The weird thing is 30+ years later I still remember about 90% of it.
Personally I think 99% just don’t have the motivation to learn the language properly, because it’s not expected of them, and it totally should be expected of them.