Introducing

Coffee Break Swedish

Free podcasts

Listen to our free podcasts and learn or improve your Swedish on the go, where and when it suits you.

Online courses

Take the next step and sign up for a course on the Coffee Break Academy, accessing video materials, lesson notes and bonus audio content.

Join in

Improve your vocabulary, build your language skills and keep up with the Coffee Break Swedish team on social media.

Travel Diaries: now available

In the Coffee Break Swedish Travel Diaries, join Mattias and Sara who are travelling down the west coast of Sweden with their children, Alva and Arvid. In each episode you’ll learn new expressions, increase your understanding of grammar and build your vocabulary.

How does Coffee Break Swedish work?

Think of Coffee Break Swedish like going for a coffee (or a fika!) with your friend who happens to speak Swedish and is helping you learn in a relaxed, enjoyable way. Then add a solid structure and carefully constructed pedagogy which ensures that you progress through the lessons and build on previously-learned language.

Coffee Break Swedish is not a simple series of “listen and repeat” audio programmes: in each lesson Hanna explains how the language works, helping Mark – and you – to manipulate the language and use it in practical situations. As a learner Mark asks questions, and makes mistakes, so through Hanna’s explanations, corrections and pronunciation tips you’ll build your confidence and begin to understand and speak the language.

You’ll also build your cultural knowledge with the help of our cultural correspondent Emma who shares information on Swedish culture in many of the lessons.

In the same time it takes you to sit down and enjoy a coffee in your favourite coffee shop, you can make progress with your Swedish. Our 15-20 minute lessons are perfect to keep you focused and let you develop your confidence in regular sessions.

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Your Coffee Break ... your way

Free podcasts

Each Season of Coffee Break Swedish offers a huge amount of free content available as audio podcasts. You can access these on our website, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify and each lesson lasts around 15-20 minutes - the perfect Coffee Break length!

Online course

If you'd like to take your learning further and make faster progress, we offer a full online course for each Season. Resources include bonus audio materials, video episodes and lesson notes. See below for further details for each Season.

Free podcasts

Audio content for all seasons
Free
  • Audio podcasts

Online course (£GBP)

per season of 40 lessons
£ 108
00
One-off purchase
  • 40 Audio lessons
  • 40 Bonus audio lessons
  • 40 Video lessons
  • 40 Lesson notes

Online course ($USD)

per season of 40 lessons
$ 124
00
One-off purchase
  • 40 Audio lessons
  • 40 Bonus audio lessons
  • 40 Video lessons
  • 40 Lesson notes

*Note that Coffee Break Swedish is being published on an ongoing basis in blocks of ten lessons from 20 January 2020. Episodes will be released on a fortnightly basis. Buying the full course provides access to the premium materials for each lesson as it becomes available. 

The £GBP price quoted above includes VAT for the UK. VAT is added automatically at the local rate for customers purchasing within the EU. Customers from elsewhere in the world will not pay VAT. Please note also that we offer bundles of multiple seasons on the Coffee Break Academy.

Join the conversation

Join the conversation with the Coffee Swedish team on social media! We post regular language and cultural information on Facebook, and you can keep up with Coffee Break Languages on Instagram.

Facebook

Follow Coffee Break Swedish on Facebook and practise your language skills with our cultural and language posts three times a week.

YouTube

Over on the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel, you'll find useful videos to help you improve your Swedish. Read on for more information.

Instagram

Come behind the scenes with the Coffee Break team, and build your vocabulary and understanding with our regular Instagram stories. Follow @coffeebreaklanguages .

Keep in touch and practise your language skills

Sign up for our free newsletter and receive regular tips and tricks to help you every step of the way with your Swedish-learning journey. 

Every month we’ll send you our Äventyr newsletter, featuring information, links and even language practice. It’s the perfect way to keep in touch with the Coffee Break Swedish team and everything that we do.

Just fill in your details below and we’ll be in touch!

Our latest lessons

We publish regular lessons both in the Coffee Break Swedish podcast feed and on our YouTube channel. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.

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CBSw TD 1.10 | Sol och bad på Tylösand

In this final main lesson we hear about how the family wrapped up their holiday on the Swedish west coast. We learn new vocabulary and new phrases, and have a look at the difference prepositions can make to the same

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CBSw TD 1.09 | En spännande dag i Halmstad

In the penultimate lesson of our Travel Diaries we follow Mattias and family further south along the Swedish west coast to the city of Halmstad. As the family runs into a minor crisis situation we take the opportunity to delve

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CBSw Travel Diaries 1.05 | Småstaden Skärhamn

In this lesson we explore the small town Skärhamn on the Swedish west coast where we take the opportunity to delve into slightly more complex grammar. We look at how certain words can carry different meanings depending on the context

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Frequently Asked Questions

Coffee Break Swedish is a production of the Radio Lingua Network and we produce all Coffee Break Languages courses, along with One Minute Languages and High Five Languages for younger learners. The Radio Lingua team is made up of experienced teachers and native speakers and we’re based in Glasgow, Scotland. To find out more about the team, visit our Meet The Team section of the website.

We offer free content in the form of audio podcasts for each of the seasons of Coffee Break Swedish. In the audio podcasts you’ll be able to build your understanding of Swedish and hear how words are pronounced. However, there’s no guidance on how the words are written. This is where the online course comes in. The course offers additional materials:

  • full versions of each audio lesson;
  • a video version of the lesson which allows you to see the “words on the screen” as you listen;
  • bonus audio content allowing you to consolidate your learning futher;
  • lesson notes with vocabulary and additional explanations.

If you’re serious about learning Swedish we would suggest that you consider the online course to help you make faster progress with the lessons and build a deeper understanding of the language.

Our audio podcasts are free and you can access them here on the website, on your favourite podcast app, or on Spotify. We offer a paid online course which provides additional materials. The cost for one season is £96.00 GBP including VAT, or $104.00 USD excluding VAT. Please see above for further information on pricing.

We do not currently have an app version of Coffee Break Swedish. In the past we have had problems with a group of developers who have stolen our content and published it within paid-for apps. These apps are not published by Coffee Break Languages. We’ve written extensively about this situation on our website. Please do not purchase our content through these apps. The only way to access Coffee Break Swedish lesson notes, bonus audio and video versions is through the Coffee Break Academy.

We do not currently offer one-on-one Skype lessons. If this is something which interests you, we would suggest that you sign up with our partner italki where you can access individual teachers and native speakers to practise your Italian. Visit italki.com to get a voucher for $10 USD in italki Credits when you purchase your first lesson.

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