Yle Kielikoulu

Learn Finnish or Swedish while watching interesting television

With Yle Kielikoulu - Yle Språkskolan you can watch Yle’s programs and get help to develop your Finnish or Swedish language while learning everything about Finland. This is the app for you who is a refugee, newly arrived or other immigrant to Finland.

- Click words and expressions in closed captions in Finnish and get language support to six common immigrant languages. For closed captions in Swedish get language support to twenty-five common immigrant languages. See full lists below.

- Read the closed captions separately with integrated language exercises

- Get recommended programs for those new to the language and Finland.

- Use smart filters to find program of right LENGTH (short or long) and DIFFICULTY (easy, intermediate, difficult)

- Get a list of your latest viewed programs for easy access and repetition

- Explore your vocabulary in a visual overview and follow the progress of your own Learning profile

- Gamification: monitor your activity with graphs and set personal learning goals

- Optionally connect or register a user account for back-up and synchronizing your Learning profile.

In onboarding enter your current language level (CEFR scale) :

A1 (beginner) if you understand very common words and simple sentences

A2 (basic) if you can read short and simple texts

B1 (intermediate) if you can understand texts with everyday language

B2 (upper intermediate) if you can read texts about modern problems and different views

C1 (advanced) if you can understand long and complex texts with different styles

C2 (fluent) if you can understand all kinds of texts

If you know little (A1) or don’t know any Finnish or any Swedish language yet then Yle Kielikoulu - Yle Språkskolan can be too difficult to use.

Yle Kielikoulu today offers language support from Finnish to English, Estonian, Russian, Somali, Arabic and Swedish.

Yle Språkskolan today offers language support from Swedish to English, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Persian, Finnish, Greek, Kurdish, Serbian, Somali, Azeri, Ahmaric, Tigrinya, Pashto, French, Mandarin (Chinese), Polish, Romanian, Thai, German, Turkish, Farsi (Persian), Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani).

For smart use of your mobile data allowance we recommend that you connect your mobile phone or tablet to a wireless network (wifi) when it is possible.