What you’ll be able to do
The lessons are built around everyday situations, so you can make friends, buy things, order food and drink, check into a hotel and cope when something goes wrong.
Meet people
Say how you are, where you’re from and where you live, and introduce your family.
Eat, drink and stay
Order drinks in a café, have lunch in a restaurant and check into a hotel.
Get around
Find your way around town, travel by train, and handle numbers, days, months and the time.
Cope with the unexpected
Talk about aches and pains, get help at the pharmacy and make a phone call.
Inside every lesson
All 40 lessons follow the same shape, so you always know what to do next, and each video lesson takes around 20 minutes.
What’s included
Pay once and it’s yours for life, on every device you use.
- 40 full lessons Over 20 hours of audio.
- Video lessons With words and phrases on screen.
- Comprehensive lesson notes Grammar explanations, vocabulary and transcripts.
- Interactive quizzes Check your progress as you go.
- Downloads Take the audio and notes offline.
- Lifetime access One payment, no subscription.
Video
The video lesson
Watch the dialogues, then Hanna and Mark talk through the language, with tips on grammar and culture and the words and phrases on screen as you go.
Audio
The audio lesson
Download the same lesson to listen to on the go.
Notes
Lesson guide and transcript
Read the full notes, with transcripts of the dialogues and explanations of every grammar point.
Bonus
Bonus audio
Test your understanding with review, translation challenges and extra vocabulary.
The 40 lessons
The lessons build up to a trip around Sweden in the final part.
Part 1 · Lessons 1 to 10
Meeting people, finding your way
Say how you are, where you’re from and where you live, introduce your family, count to 10 and find places in town.
- 1Saying how you are feeling
- 2Greetings
- 3Saying where you are from
- 4Saying where you live and talking about other people
- 5Introducing family members
- 6More family members and numbers 0–10
- 7Asking where things are
- 8More places in town
- 9Dealing with the language
- 10End-of-unit review
Part 2 · Lessons 11 to 20
Eating out and travelling
Order in cafés and restaurants, check into a hotel, shop for souvenirs, get around by bike and train, and tell the time.
- 11Ordering drinks in a café
- 12Ordering lunch in a restaurant
- 13Eating in a restaurant
- 14Arriving at the hotel
- 15Numbers, days and months
- 16Shopping for souvenirs
- 17Getting around the town
- 18Train travel
- 19Telling the time
- 20End-of-unit dialogue
Part 3 · Lessons 21 to 30
Everyday life
Talk about the weather, aches and pains, clothes and what you like, then spell words out, talk about work and make phone calls.
- 21The weather
- 22Aches and pains
- 23At the pharmacy
- 24Descriptions and items of clothing
- 25Talking about likes and dislikes
- 26Asking the question ‘why’
- 27The alphabet
- 28Talking about work
- 29Making phone calls
- 30Identity quiz
Part 4 · Lessons 31 to 40
A trip to Sweden
Put it all together on a trip to Sweden, from the airport and the hotel to sightseeing and a birthday.
- 31Travelling to Sweden
- 32Arrival at the airport
- 33At hotel check-in
- 34Breakfast in the hotel
- 35Shopping
- 36Sightseeing
- 37A trip to Askersund
- 38Seeking help at the pharmacy
- 39Birthday celebrations
- 40What a trip!
From learners on the course
“I have listened to some of the free podcasts and have been very impressed and encouraged by the lessons and by Mark and Hanna’s learning and teaching style so I decided to take the full course. Thank you Mark and Hanna for this excellent course.”
“Hello, I love your course. Thank you so much for your energy, making it fun and enjoyable to learn. Hanna, your pronunciation is so melodic, like music to my ears, so beautiful!”
Questions
What’s the difference between the course and the free podcast?
You can find Coffee Break Swedish audio lessons on podcast apps and Spotify. The course adds the video lessons, the lesson notes and the bonus audio, all made to help you make faster progress, and the course lessons never carry advertising.
Do I need any Swedish to start?
No. Level 1 is for complete beginners and starts from your very first words. If you’d like a taste first, First Steps is a short free course.
Can I download the materials?
The videos stream online, and you can download the lesson guides and the audio to review on the go.
How long do I have access?
For as long as you like, across all of your devices.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. Start with First Steps, our short free course, and you’ll see how the lessons work before you buy.
What comes after Level 1?
Travel Diaries follows a family’s summer down the west coast of Sweden in 10 lessons, so you can practise what you’ve learned.
Find the course that fits you
Start free with First Steps, take Level 1 from your very first words, then practise on the road with Travel Diaries.
Coffee Break Swedish · Level 1
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