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…
Reading Time: 12 minutesOur Journey to Finland — Part 6 Learning Finnish has been one of the biggest parts of our journey since deciding to move to Finland. It started long before we arrived here. I studied Finnish while I was still working full-time in Dubai, attended online language lessons,…
