Language exam prep for citizenship · Now: Finnish YKI
Personalized prep for the language exam you need for citizenship, starting with Finland’s YKI test. It adapts to your level and your mistakes: all four skills in one place, with instant AI feedback on exactly what to fix, built around the real exam format, not a guess at it.
Try 1 week free · Personalized to your level and your mistakes · Cancel anytime
The four exam skills
Every task follows the real exam’s task types (for Finnish, the YKI test), so nothing on exam day feels new.
Situation reactions, giving an account and short presentations. Record your answer and get instant AI feedback.
Messages, polite but firm complaints, and opinion essays, scored with clear corrections.
Short Finnish texts with comprehension questions. Tap any word to see what it means in context.
AI-narrated Finnish clips with comprehension questions, at the pace of the real exam.
Learn faster
Spaced repetition. Your mistakes are added to the deck automatically.
Fill-in-the-blank sentences for fast grammar practice.
Your recurring mistakes, grouped and ranked so you know what to fix first.
Culture, history and facts. The ones you miss keep coming back.
Feedback in your language
Explanations and corrections come in over 50 languages, so you learn from your mistakes instead of guessing at them.
Exams
Most countries ask for a language certificate before granting citizenship. ABCitizen starts with Finland and will add more countries and languages.
Try it free
Personalized learning built around you and your real exam. Start your free week and see how fast it adapts to you.
Practice at your level, with lessons and exercises that focus on the mistakes you actually make.
Your error journal and flashcards fill themselves from what you get wrong, until you get it right.
AI feedback on everything you write and say, explained in the language you understand best.
A daily streak, streak freezes and reminders, so a few minutes a day add up to exam day.
7 days free on the Limited plan, then €24.99 per month. Cancel anytime before the trial ends and you pay nothing.
Simple pricing
Every plan includes AI feedback on everything you write and say. Cancel anytime from your account.
Trying it out, or practicing a few times a week
Practicing most days and want no limits
Committed to passing your exam in the next few months
Finnish YKI writing
Yki gives no official word count, so here is what common Yki prep guidance recommends for each writing task. ABCitizen shows the same recommendation while you write.
Level 3 of the intermediate test is B1 (enough for citizenship), level 4 is B2. Covering every point the task asks for matters more than the exact length.
Questions
Right now ABCitizen prepares you for Finland’s YKI test (Finnish, grade 3 / B1 for citizenship). Next on our roadmap are German (DTZ, telc Deutsch B1, Goethe-Zertifikat B1), Italian (CILS, CELI, PLIDA, CERT.IT), French (TCF IRN, TEF IRN) and Swedish.
YKI (Yleinen kielitutkinto) is Finland’s National Certificate of Language Proficiency. The Finnish YKI exam is one of the accepted ways to prove the language skills required for Finnish citizenship, and is also used for jobs, studies and other permits.
ABCitizen is a YKI exam prep course covering all four tested skills (speaking, writing, reading and listening), with instant AI feedback on every attempt, so you can practice online at your own pace, every day.
Yes. YKI B1 is one of the ways to prove the Finnish or Swedish language skills required when applying for Finnish citizenship.
Yes. You can start with a free week: try everything, and cancel before the week ends to pay nothing. You can also sign up for free and practise existing content with AI feedback.
Yes. For citizenship applications submitted from 1 March 2027, applicants aged 18–64 must also show knowledge of Finnish society, for example with the new citizenship test (kansalaisuuskoe) in Finnish or Swedish. It does not replace the language requirement, so YKI still matters. See our guide at abcitizen.com/guides.
Explanations and corrections are available in over 50 languages, so you can practise the exam language while reading feedback in your own.
Start from any level
A language course and exam training path in one: begin with the alphabet and first sounds, then follow a learning path all the way to your citizenship language exam.