When my family and I moved to Helsinki from Somalia five years ago, I knew that learning Finnish would be of great importance, especially to find employment. In the beginning, my wife, two daughters and I were able to integrate into the Somalian community here quite well. But it was Finnexia that gave us the chance to enjoy learning Finnish, and to get to know Finns better. With Finnexia, I was able learn Finnish much faster at the employment office language courses. Within only one week after completing the course and a full dose of Finnexia, I was able to find a good employment position as a bus driver with HKL transportation in Helsinki. Now I can support my family well.

My husband and I moved to Finland on a employment contract with an information technology company. As a native English speaker, I found it relatively easy to get by with English in most situations in Helsinki. However, two years later, our company relocated us to a smaller city in Western Finland. After a few months, I realized I was going to need to learn Finnish quickly, in order to integrate into the local community. Finnexia helped to speed up the language learning process for me. Now my husband and I have made more Finnish friends, and we join our colleagues for drinks and sauna every Friday.