Welcome to Finnish with Christoffer. Here you’ll find video lessons, live Finnish teaching and other resources. Enjoy your language journey!

Video lessons

My video lessons can be watched both here on this site, and on the Finnish with Christoffer YouTube channel. On this site there is a greater number of videos than on YouTube, as well as grammar documents under the videos and other resources. Go to the video lessons

Live Finnish teaching for groups

I am currently on a break from live Finnish teaching since I am creating a series of Finnish with Christoffer video lessons. By joining my email-list you will stay informed when there is live Finnish teaching for groups again. I don’t offer individual Finnish teaching sessions.

Experience and education in teaching languages

My name is Christoffer Lindquist (I previously used my father’s last name Kuusakoski) and I have around three years of professional experience as a language teacher to adult migrants in Finland, Sweden and Germany. I was teaching in other fields before that which amounts to more than 10 years of professional experience as a teacher.

I have studied language teaching pedagogy at university level in Sweden and Germany (2 years in total). I have also acquired the official certification for teaching German on integration courses in Germany.

Experience of teaching Finnish

After having been primarily a professional Swedish teacher I switched to teaching Finnish in 2024. Since then I have designed and taught a 6 month, 20 hours/week beginner’s course in Finnish. Here I applied my speaking-centered approach to teaching languages while adapting to the special requirements of the Finnish language. I was very pleased with the level attained by the participants. See the feedback from participants below.

I have been teaching Finnish on two YouTube channels (the first one starting in 2024) as well as giving live conversation training sessions to Finnish learners in Espoo and online.

Language skills

I was born in Helsinki. There are two official languages in Finland, Finnish and Swedish. My mother is Swedish speaking and my father Finnish speaking. Even though Swedish is my mother tongue, I have spoken Finnish since I was a child and have grown up in a predominantly Finnish speaking society with many Finnish speakers among my friends and relatives.

Learning foreign languages is a lifelong passion of mine, so I have a lot of personal experience of how we can learn a new language efficiently. Foreign languages that I speak include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

  • Feedback from participants

    Because of you I discovered the Finnish language in a new way – alive and interesting. Your patience, friendliness and enthusiasm inspired me to study. It was a joy to be your student.
    Yaroslava

  • Feedback from participants

    [Christoffer] explains the subject excellently. Everything is understood, even by those for whom it had been difficult before … Christoffer knows how to inspire and support … He is a person who makes learning very efficient and pleasant.
    Olena (1st with this name)

  • Feedback from participants

    Before this I participated in other courses, and I want to mention that Christoffer’s teaching method is much better … His goal is not only to teach grammar – he teaches us to speak Finnish fluently. His lessons are always interesting.
    Olena (2nd with this name)

  • Feedback from participants

    Your lessons are always interesting and your explanations easy to understand … You always find kind words of support and inspire to learn, to believe in oneself and not to be afraid of making mistakes. You are able to find an approach for each student.
    Olena (3rd with this name)

  • Feedback from participants

    This conversation training in Finnish is useful and interesting to me. I like a lot how the teacher organizes the lessons. The teacher explains things clearly and calmly. I find it really good that he corrects mistakes and really wants our language to improve.
     Halyna

  • Feedback from participants

    Hi! I wanted to thank you once more. Without your course I wouldn’t have passed the test with such a good level. I am very satisfied!
    Maryna

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