Coffee Break Swedish

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 into lots of new phrases and grammar. We explore the difference between varsin, varsitt and varsina, and review definite and indefinite forms.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

Episode 8 of our Swedish Travel Diaries is packed with lots of grammar and new vocabulary. We follow the family to the little island of Vinga where one of Sweden's most influential troubadours grew up. While we explore Vinga we also learn new phrases and expressions.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

Following our visit to the amusement park, Liseberg, in the last episode, we now get to hear more about what the family does in the city of Göteborg. We focus on the past and perfect tenses, encounter some new phrasal verbs, and look at familiar vocabulary in new contexts.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

In this episode we follow the family to the amusement park Liseberg in Gothenburg. During this rainy day we get the chance to practise the perfect tense and really put our understanding of phrasal verbs to the test.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

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 and how other words can be used to subtly to convey different feelings. Of course, we also learn some new phrases and vocabulary along the way!Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

Welcome to the next instalment of the Coffee Break Swedish Travel Diaries! Day four of the trip takes us to the swimming spot, Bleket. The weather is shifting, which causes the mood of some family members to shift too. As we dive into salty water, we learn new vocabulary and grammar, before rounding off the day with a nice meal in a setting most Swedes would look forward to all winter.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

In this lesson, the family leaves Marstrand to travel to nearby island Klädesholmen. We get to hear stories about Mattias's childhood as he takes us up and down the streets lined by white wooden houses on this rocky island full of rose bushes, sunshine, and sailboats. We learn some new vocabulary and revise verb tenses along the way!Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.

The adventures of the family continue! In this episode we follow them as they take the ferry over to the island of Marstrandsön - an island full of sunshine, history, old fortresses, ghosts, and seagulls. This lesson builds on a lot of the grammar we are already familiar with and we encounter verbs in new tenses. We also see some new and useful constructions, and learn more about some of Sweden's most infamous criminals.Travel Diaries is being published in one season of ten episodes weekly from Thursday 27th April. If you’d like to access our support materials including lesson notes, a video version and bonus audio and notes then check out the full course here.