Finnish Basics Course

Join Saija Laurla to learn the Finnish Basics (alkeiskurssi).

Ready to speak one of the world’s most fascinating (and famously challenging) languages?

✔️ No experience needed
✔️ Small, supportive classes
✔️ Learn from native speakers
✔️ Impress your friends (and yourself)

WHEN: Thursdays 9/18-12/11 6-7.30 PM, 12 meetings $200

Using book Suomen Mestari 1 and books from SCC Library

There is a minimum threshold for this class. If we do not reach it, it will not run. So share this with your friends!

Bio: Saija Laurla

Although the Finnish language can be difficult to learn, instructor Saija Laurla makes it fun and interesting. She was born in Helsinki and raised in Vantaa, the international airport city of Finland. Living accessibly to other countries, her family took her abroad two to three times a year. This gave the talkative Saija the ability to learn some French, English, Spanish, Swedish and Italian. As a young adult Saija continued traveling, always picking up words here and there continuing her interests towards different languages. In Finland Saija worked as a journalist, script writer and a TV-producer. When Saija’s husband got offered a job in the United States in 2015, Saija watched numerous popular TV shows to refresh her English as well as expose her to American culture.

In 2018, Saija had lived in the US for three years by the time she discovered the teaching position available at Saima Park, and felt comfortable to apply. The rest is history; now Saija enjoys teaching Finnish online as well as in person. If you haven’t yet met her, you will find her teaching at the Scandinavian Cultural Center.

Host or Publisher Scandinavian Living Center