Continue developing your beginner Swedish fluency and confidence with our Beginner Swedish: A2.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Swedish: A2.2 Course or have approximately 100 hours of prior study. This course helps you strengthen your communication skills for everyday situations while deepening your understanding of Swedish grammar and vocabulary, making it ideal for learners wanting to learn the Swedish language for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.
You will practise everyday communication such as shopping and interacting in retail settings, ordering food and drinks at restaurants, discussing prices, talking about leisure activities and hobbies, planning free-time activities, and describing family relationships and daily routines. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context to help you form simple sentences, talk about present and past situations, describe people and activities, and interact more naturally in everyday conversations. Phonetics is integrated throughout the course, with focused practice on key Swedish vowel sounds such as o, å, a, i, y, and u, as well as compound words and stress patterns to help you develop clearer and more confident spoken Swedish.
Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:
- Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
- Online: Microsoft Teams
- Rivstart 3rd Ed A1+A2 Textbook (Natur & Kultur: 2023), ISBN 9789127462342
Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.
Communication
- Talking about education
- Describing and comparing education systems
- Talking about the future
- Describing accommodation
- Making comparisons
- Expressing opinions
- Small talk
- Making phone calls
Grammar
- Subordinating conjunctions: för att, genom att, utan att
- Relative clauses
- Verbs: future tenses
- Time adverbials: först, sedan, efter det, då
- Comparative adverbs: gärna, nära
- Ser + adjective + ut
- Adjectives: definite forms
Phonetics
- Pronouncing phrasal verbs
- Word stress
- Reductions and assimilations
Vocabulary
- School and education
- The future
- Accommodation and furniture
- Purchasing property
- Work
- Formal and informal phone calls
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Communicate in simple Swedish in everyday situations such as shopping, ordering food, and discussing prices.
- Talk about family, hobbies, and daily routines while planning activities and describing interests.
- Use basic Swedish pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar structures to participate in short conversations and understand simple factual texts.
