If you want to show language skills acquired informally outside university, please, fill in the form of Application for Recognition of Prior Learning and send it to the language teacher teaching the course you want to be recognized. The language teacher will contact you by email to find a suitable way to show your skills.

RPL of languages from elementary level
Language skills acquired in pre-university secondary education cannot be validated or demonstrated. If a student has prior knowledge of a language acquired outside higher education, he or she will be directed to continue studying that language at his or her own level of proficiency. Non-formal language and communication skills, such as those acquired on the job, can be demonstrated by means of a test of competence.

Student´s mother tongue cannot be validated or demonstrated as a foreign language in language courses that are on CEFR A1-B1 levels. Studies in the mother tongue can only be chosen from level B2 onwards.

For students whose mother tongue is not Finnish, the Finnish as a second language (s2) studies are, as a rule, taken only from the student´s own level onwards.