
I introduce you to the basics of the Swedish language, drawing on more than 12 years of teaching experience to guide your beginner journey.
Learn to introduce yourself in Swedish and use greetings from hello to good night. Practice listening at normal and slow speeds, speaking aloud, and translating phrases from English to Swedish.
Learn common phrases for small talk in Swedish and English. Practice listening and repeating to memorize phrases and improve your pronunciation.
Expand your Swedish small talk toolkit with new phrases for talking about favorite films, food, and daily topics, paired with guided listening, slow-speed repetition, and pronunciation practice.
Translate a set of English phrases into Swedish in random order to practice beginner Swedish through a varied translation exercise that builds basic vocabulary.
Learn practical Swedish phrases to end conversations in various settings, from informal chats to business meetings. Listen, repeat, and translate phrases to Swedish to improve pronunciation and memory.
Explore Swedish grammar: two genders, common and neuter; use definite and indefinite forms by suffixing n or et, with consonant endings needing two letters and vowels one.
Practice personal pronouns to introduce yourself, listen and repeat at slower speed, and speak aloud to memorize phrases and improve pronunciation. Test yourself by translating English personal pronouns to Swedish.
Learn Swedish country names and how to say where you’re from through listening, repetition, and translation from English to Swedish.
Master the languages listed in the caption, including svenska, engelska, spanska, tyska, franska, italienska, portugues, norska, dansk, finska, ryska, japanska, arabic, hebrew, hindi, urdu, swahili, turkish, greek, islenska, nederlandse.
Learn how the Swedish present tense describes actions now, habits, and general truths using a single form with endings r or ir and no pronoun changes.
Learn Swedish job vocabulary and common occupations, master two ways to describe your job, and practice with listening and repeat drills.
Practice basic Swedish by answering questions about origin and language preference, and choose svenska or engelska as the teacher prompts.
Practice self-introduction in Swedish using the provided phrases. Learn to greet others and introduce yourself confidently.
Listen to a text and fill the gaps, practicing basic Swedish phrases about greetings, origins, and people such as Mia Wagner from Tyskland and meeting Wagner.
Learn basic Swedish dialogue about marital status and everyday questions, such as how are you and do you like living in Sweden, practicing pronunciation and memorizing single and gift.
Learn how to ask how are you in Swedish and explore popular responses, from 'bro' or 'toppen' to simple positive or negative replies, including nuanced phrases.
Practice asking how you are in Swedish by repeating phrases, forming questions, and providing positive and negative responses, with translation from English to Swedish and self-check.
Learn essential Swedish marital status vocabulary, including single, gift, sambo, registered partner, separated, or in a relationship.
Learn Swedish basic family vocabulary by practicing translations from English to Swedish aloud, with repetition of mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, and son.
Learn how to form Swedish negation by inserting int after the first verb, turning I eat breakfast into I don't eat breakfast.
Learn to form yes-or-no questions in Swedish by placing the verb before the subject, with examples like 'do you like to read books?'
Turn sentences into questions in this Swedish for beginners exercise, practice speaking aloud, and reinforce basic Swedish and English vocabulary.
Discover how to place a question word first, then the verb, then the subject, with examples like 'Where does he work'.
Learn common Swedish question words and translate them from English to Swedish, including vem, varför, vilken, vilket, vilka; then speak them aloud with us.
Practice using common Swedish question words such as varför, vilket, vilka, and vilken by translating the phrases in the lecture caption.
Learn common Swedish question words and expand your vocabulary by translating a variety of phrases to Swedish, with practice speaking aloud for beginners.
Learn basic numbers in Swedish. Listen, remember, and repeat out loud to improve pronunciation and translate numbers from English to Swedish.
Learn how to pronounce years in swedish with practical examples, including how 1995 and 2023 are spoken.
Practice numbers in Swedish for beginners by using vocabulary learned in previous lessons to answer example questions.
Learn to tell time in Swedish using both 12-hour and 24-hour clocks, with minutes expressed as past or to, and phrases for morning, afternoon, evening, and night.
Practice forming negative sentences and yes-no questions in Swedish for beginners, with slower-paced instruction and exercises in film, theatre, and song contexts.
Perform a Swedish listening exercise by filling in gaps and recognizing names and places such as Eric, Elsa, and Sverige. Practice discussing your day in upcoming lessons.
Learn to talk about your daily routine in Swedish, using numbers to express wake up times, describe morning activities, meals like yoghurt or muesli, and everyday routines.
Learn Swedish basics by listening to a mother's note text, practicing phrases like 'call me at your leisure' and 'come home from school' in a family context.
Learn Swedish vocabulary for hobbies, including music, orchestra, and other leisure activities. Practice describing sports like football or volleyball, nature outings, and future hobbies.
Explore basic Swedish verbs in the present tense with English translations, building essential vocabulary and pronunciation through listen and repeat practice.
Practice basic Swedish verbs through present-tense example sentences. Explore everyday topics from the caption, including listening to music, traveling to new places, dining, shopping, and describing people and scenes.
Learn to form the Swedish imperative by removing the present tense ending, usually r or ur, to make commands and the stem for other verb forms, with examples.
Learn to form Swedish infinitive from the imperative by adding an 'a' for consonant endings, or keeping it unchanged for vowel endings; the infinitive is the same as the imperative.
Discover Swedish basics through comparison examples in imperative, infinitive, and presens. Practice speaking aloud to improve memorization and pronunciation.
Master the infinitive form in Swedish by using it after modal verbs or after certain verbs, after prepositions, and as a subject or object in sentences.
Learn the Swedish verb-second rule: when a sentence begins with a time phrase or location, place the verb second, then the subject and remaining verbs, with practical examples.
Turn present-tense verbs into imperative in Swedish, practicing commands related to park, music, guitar, film, letter writing, and speaking.
Practice Swedish word order by placing time expressions at the beginning of the sentence, as you work through exercise 2 in Swedish for beginners.
Learn to order at a restaurant or cafe and master plural noun forms in Swedish through a guided dialogue. Practice essential restaurant phrases and menu items in context.
Learn practical Swedish phrases for ordering food, including vegetarian options and allergy notes, with pronunciation practice, repetition, and translation from English to Swedish.
Learn essential Swedish phrases for visiting a supermarket, covering ecological products, gluten-free alternatives, asking for help, and basic shopping conversations.
Explore Swedish plural forms for beginners, including rules for nouns ending in a and ar or er based on stress, and irregulars; note nouns ending in an stay the same.
Explore neuter gender nouns: add n in the plural when endings are vowels, keep unchanged for consonant endings, and note irregular headwords such as land and vin.
Master Swedish pronunciation by understanding vowel length and shortness, stress-driven vowel or consonant length, and consonant rules including hard and soft g, k, and doubled letters.
Practice turning nouns into their plural forms in Swedish, using examples from the caption like hund, daughter, stool, and lampa.
Explore a beginner Swedish dialogue about free time, activities and everyday life, through listening and reading.
Practice dialogue two as characters plan to meet, walk in a promenade, visit a cafe, and use multilingual phrases.
Practice Swedish for beginners through a dialogue about household chores with Sophia and Emma, emphasizing pronunciation and translation to reinforce everyday language and slower speech cues.
Learn the days of the week in Swedish, speak out loud to memorize, and check yourself by translating these words from English to Swedish.
Learn how to express routines on specific days in Swedish, starting with på måndagar, and practice with repeating examples out loud.
Practice translating these English adverbs of frequency into Swedish and repeat them aloud, focusing on alltid, ofta, ibland, and aldrig.
Learn to use adverbs of frequency in Swedish to describe free time activities, placing them after the first verb, with ibland at the beginning or end under the general rule.
Learn how the Swedish verb brukar expresses habitual actions by pairing with another verb in the infinitive, and compare its present-tense use with English 'used to'.
Learn vocabulary for free time activities and everyday conversations by exploring verbs and a range of activities such as music, sports, theater, museum visits, tours, book clubs, and hobbies.
Learn the two Swedish verbs tycker om and gillar, which both mean 'like' and can be used interchangeably. Build simple sentences to practice expressing preferences and everyday activities.
Learn Swedish vocabulary for household chores and practice translating English terms into Swedish, including words like fönster and stada for beginners.
Learn a large Swedish daily routine vocabulary, including waking up, going to work, lunch, home, listening to music, and going for a promenade, with practice and self-check translations.
Master common adjectives in Swedish to describe almost anything, using examples like smart, dumb, rolig, varm, billig, and practice translating words from English to Swedish.
Learn how Swedish adjectives change with gender and number, including three forms for common gender, neuter, and plural, with no change for common gender nouns and endings t or a.
Explore how Swedish adjectives vary in form, including one-form adjectives, d-ending adjectives, vowel endings with double t in neuter, and irregular cases like gammal and liten, used in indefinite forms.
Discover how to express this and that in Swedish using common and neuter nouns, demonstratives, and the definite article with examples like den här boken and det här huset.
Practice forming the correct adjective forms in Swedish through varied examples and translations, checking your answers and reviewing expressions like solnedgång and hennes.
Learn the past tense through sample texts, listen to Swedish phrases, and compare with English translations to build confident reading and speaking skills.
Explore a vacation in Spain through a family trip to Malaga, paella lunch near the Plaza de Granada and the Alhambra, with visits to Cordoba mosque and Sierra Nevada.
Practice talking about the weather in Swedish, using a dialogue to describe temperature, warmth, and snow and ice melt.
Explore weather phrases in Swedish and practice talking about the weather through listening, repetition, and translating phrases from English to Swedish to memorize vocabulary.
Learn basic color vocabulary in Swedish through swatch group practice, repeating and translating common colors from English to Swedish, and speaking aloud for pronunciation and recall.
Learn svensk adjectives for countries, not nationalities, with examples like svensk, norsk, dansk, finsk, islandske, fransk, spansk, italiensk. Translate the adjectives from English to Swedish and repeat aloud.
Swedish past tense, prateritum, describes actions. Form it by removing endings to get the stem and add a suffix with t for stems ending in p, k, s, or t.
Explore irregular verbs in Swedish through memorization and hands-on practice, covering core forms and common irregulars like vara, kunna, vilja, säga, komma, gå, skriva, läsa.
Practice turning provided restaurant‑related text into the past tense, compare with the English translation, and explore server and manager roles, Italian food, local bar scenes, and music tips.
Explore a dialogue about a family photo in lesson seven of Swedish for beginners, practicing basic family vocabulary such as papa, mama, sister, and related phrases.
In Swedish for beginners, dialogue 2 follows Sophia as she buys a dress for her friend, with listening and reading practice and translations.
Explore a Swedish for beginners dialogue where characters discuss everyday topics and reveal that someone is getting married, boosting basic conversational skills.
Learn Swedish possessive pronouns to show ownership, using examples like min, mitt, mina, din, dina, hans, and deras.
Learn Swedish object pronouns and how they mark the recipient of an action. Examples include I see him, I meet her, I know them.
Learn to say this thing or that thing in Swedish using simple word order, with den first, then har, and the definite article at the end for socken/sok.
Explore Swedish past time expressions that start with e, such as e somras, to talk about recent events and learn to pair them with past tense verbs.
Learn essential time expressions in swedish to talk about things that happen regularly, such as daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
Explore Swedish future time expressions to say you are going to do something tomorrow, next week, or next year. Learn how to choose the right expression for different situations.
Discover how to express past moments in Swedish using the preposition för with a time expression and sedan, with examples like a week ago, a year ago, or minutes ago.
Use the Swedish preposition om to express future timing, such as in a few days or in a year. Learn practical phrases with simple examples.
Learn how the Swedish word som functions as who, which, or that, and how to introduce relative clauses to add information about the subject or object.
Practice Swedish pronouns through a guided exercise that asks you to fill in the correct pronoun. Engage with names and short phrases from the caption to reinforce pronoun usage.
Welcome to our Swedish course for beginners!
If you've ever been captivated by the beautiful landscapes of Sweden, the enchanting melodies of Swedish music, or the fascinating culture and traditions of this Nordic country, then learning Swedish is the key to unlocking a deeper connection with all things Swedish.
Swedish, one of the North Germanic languages, is spoken by approximately 10 million people worldwide. It is not only the official language of Sweden but also holds official status in Finland, where it is spoken by the Swedish-speaking minority. Learning Swedish opens up doors to a rich linguistic heritage, a vibrant contemporary culture, and a strong sense of community among Swedish speakers.
This course is designed for those who have little to no knowledge of the Swedish language and aims to provide you with a strong foundation in Swedish grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Throughout the course, you will be introduced to essential Swedish phrases and structures through dialogues, exercises, and grammar explanations. You will also have the opportunity to practice your skills through dialogues, role-plays, and other engaging activities.
Our learning materials are designed to be engaging and user-friendly, ensuring that you have a positive and effective learning experience.
Whether you are looking to learn Swedish for personal or professional reasons, this course is an excellent starting point. We are excited to guide you on your language learning journey and help you achieve your goals. Lycka till! (Good luck!)