About us

About Finnish Language School Association (FLSA)

We use Zoom and teach our classes in 2-hour sessions on weekends. Saturday is our primary day with sessions taking place in the morning or afternoon. We offer 5 levels of courses which are defined elsewhere on this website.

Due to the school’s small size and modest tuition, scholarships are not available.

Classes are interactive and conducted using Zoom. For that reason, classes are small, normally numbering 6 to 12 students, which permits teachers to effectively manage the interaction. Students can expect plenty of personal interaction.

We make every effort to be flexible and place students at levels where everyone is comfortable with the material and learning pace.

Our emphasis is practical Finnish. ‘Practical’ means our focus is on verbal communication. We also address simple reading and writing skills for formal or informal occasions. Consistent with Finland’s present policy, we present spoken Finnish “puhekieli” for everyday communication. We do also present formal, written Finnish “kirjakieli” to illustrate when it should be used, and to present grammatical constructs.

Teachers will indicate what supplementary reading materials are recommended. We prefer to use available web-based sources.