Reading Time: 10 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6G I thought the hardest part of the YKI test would be speaking. Or maybe listening. Perhaps sitting inside the examination room trying to understand Finnish while the clock kept running. But after taking my first YKI test, I discovered another…
Reading Time: 8 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6F Everything about preparing for the YKI test felt difficult in one way or another. The Finnish language itself is difficult. There were words to memorize, grammar rules to understand, sentences to form, conversations to follow, and so many unfamiliar expressions…
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6E If speaking required me to think quickly and writing required me to keep my hand moving, the reading and listening parts of YKI required something else entirely: concentration. A lot of it. For me, these two subtests were challenging in…
Reading Time: 9 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6D One thing I remember very clearly about the YKI writing test? My hand hurt afterward. 😅 After writing continuously under time pressure, I could definitely feel it. Even though the writing part was challenging, I personally found it the easiest…
Reading Time: 9 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6C Of all the parts of the YKI test, speaking – puhuminen – was one of the sections that made me the most nervous. It wasn’t only about knowing Finnish. You had to listen. Understand what was being asked. Think of…
