Yle has decided to close the service Yle Kielikoulu Yle Språkskolan on May 14th 2025. It is well known that Yle is under pressure as their funding is being cut by 15-20%. The question is why making their programs accessible to immigrants and the public service of helping newcomers to improve the Finnish and Swedish languages is not prioritised in the process of cutting costs?

Statistics Finland shows that immigrants to Finland arriving in the last five years contribute financially via the Yle-vero fee approximately 100 times more than the cost of Yle Kielikoulu used by more than hundred thousand.

Help us try to save Yle Kielikoulu by posting your story on social media (Linkedin, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram or other) how the service has helped you personally or other reasons why the service should be saved. Please use the following hashtags and also address Yle and other opinion leaders.

Lingvis foundation is the non-profit organization behind the Eurovision Broadcasting Union Prix Europa-awardwinning media format LingvisPlay. We are active in Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Ukraine and the Baltics. It is in our charter to help refugees and migrants integrate faster into the language and society by integrating language and learning tools into various media.

We will not abandon you. There will be another free service released in a few months with other partners than Yle, which we will mail registered users about soon. We still hope Yle will change their decision. Yle has great content. You pay for it.