Fiia Männikkö

My Personal Project Experience

My goal with the Personal Project was to learn about the cultural aspects and everything surrounding sign language, specifically Finnish Sign Language. With the Personal Project, it is vital to choose a topic you want to do and which you will be motivated to carry out from beginning to end. My goals changed as I continued the project, and this was completely fine, since I was able to make the changes independently and continue to work on the project with the motivation I had.

I am now very happy with my outcome, and, even though I did not manage to learn Finnish Sign Language fluently, I am proud of the work I have completed and now I feel that I know much more about sign language. As for my product, I ended up changing my idea to a website, but this was also a very logical decision that turned out much better than I expected.