The most popular virtual YUFE Help Desk in UEF has been Finnish <> English Language Help Desk. We are now re-starting this service. Check the details below!
You are also welcome to pose questions about YUFE or suggest other YUFE Help Desks which could be of service to students and wider public. In what could you be of help to others in Joensuu or Kuopio? Do send us an email to yufe@uef.fi!
YUFE Help Desk: English <> Finnish Language Help Desk
The English <> Finnish Language Help Desk works mainly virtually.
You can use this Help Desk for checking the quality of your own short translations, or to consult for vocabulary recommendations for specific contexts. Please remember that the YUFE Language Help Desk is only a support service, not an official translation or interpretation service.
The Help Desk is run by UEF language professionals. For the volunteering advanced degree students the Help Desk is part of their service learning. To propose a task for the volunteers, please fill in this .
You can also check out some of the previous public responses here:
Questions and answers
YUFE English <> Finnish Language Help Desk helps with language and translation related questions and issues. You can send your advertisement to us and we can help you for instance by checking the language of the ad or by translating the ad from English to Finnish or vice versa.
Here are also some tips to gain more visibility for your ad:
- post your ad in all relevant yammer groups
- print paper versions of the ad and distribute them around campus (e.g. in library, cafeteria)
- ask all your friends, colleagues and acquaintances to tell people about your research
- send an add to ISYY newsletter Wiikko-脛rsyke (uutiskirje@isyy.fi
If you have some documents that you would like us to check, you can send them to yufe-helpdesk@uef.fi.
Yes, it is possible. However, we reserve the right to decline requests if they are too demanding or time-consuming for the Help Desk. You can send your text for evaluation via email to yufe-helpdesk@uef.fi and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, there are not short cuts in translation or interpreting - hiring professionals is always the best way to go. However, there are various translation apps that might be helpful, and these include:
- SayHi
- Text Grabber
- (Please mind that its usefulness is language-dependent, and its algorithms work best with these languages that they get most input from, so translations from and/or into rarer languages might not be as successful as in the case of these languages which are widely used on the web in many various contexts)
It is also important to remember that any computer-assisted language tool works best with non-metaphorical language, and that it is also wise to use such tools for rather general reference. Before publishing anything, translation quality should be verified.
It is a good idea to agree with colleagues in different countries on a uniform way of announcing meeting times. There are many different ways to do this. For example, meeting times can be expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Finland belongs to the UTC+2 time zone. If a meeting starts in Finland at 1:30 PM (13:30), colleagues from other countries will be notified of the meeting time according to the Coordinated Universal Time as 11:30 UTC. In Finnish you should use a dot (.) in time markings and in English you should use a colon (:).
YUFE related questions
In this section you can find public answers to previous questions about YUFE. To ask, just send us an email to yufe@uef.fi!
Questions and answers
First-year students are welcome to apply for the OpenYUFE Programme. However, it is good to plan ahead, when for you is really the best time for this once in a lifetime, maximum 4 semester period of OpenYUFE possibilities.
A picture of your high school diploma is sufficient to prove your proficiency in English, as long as your final grade in advanced English is at least C. An English language course completed at UEF is also valid. In that case, you can refer to the transcript you have attached.
Yes it is!
In the Autumn 2023 YUFE Minors Call there were already 9 minors (30ECTs) to apply to around Europe. More minors are becoming available as we speak, so stay tuned for updates, and follow the progress in YUFE's !
Please remember, that the YUFE Minors are open to all UEF degree students and they include a physical exchange period in the hosting university.
It's also a good idea to talk to your PSP Counsellor about the possibility or including individual YUFE courses or activities to your own minor studies in 91天美.