Swedish Conversation Club

Swedish Conversation Group

Språkcafé ☕

Are you looking for conversation partners to practice your Swedish, discuss various topics or just casual chatting?
Then you are welcome to join our free Swedish conversation group. To be a member and participate in Swedish Conversation Club is absolutely free of charge.

Our digital Swedish Language café, Språkcafé, is online and open to everyone, regardless of the level of Swedish.

We are using ZOOM  as a meeting platform. It is recommended that you download them for better performance, but otherwise, they are cloud-based apps. We inform by email, which platform we use. 
You need to register if you want to be part of the Swedish speaking group. You just have to register once, so you don’t need to do that each time you join the session.

Our Swedish Conversation Club in the popular Swedish easy-to-read newspaper 8sidor.

Routines in Språkcafé

In order to have a pleasant chat in our Swedish Conversation Group we have some routines:

  • Make sure that you have a working microphone and camera.
  • You must have your camera on for participation so people can see whom they are talking to.
  • If you know your level, please edit your name in ZOOM and write your level in the brackets. For example, Robert ( A2 – level ). That will help us to sort the participants according to the level. Otherwise, if you are a new participant, we have no idea about your Swedish level.
    If you are unsure about your level according to CEFR, you can read more about Swedish language levels.
  • Keep the conversations as much as possible in Swedish language. Of course, if you don’t know the word in Swedish, you can always use English words. Just don’t forget the purpose of språkcafé: practicing your Swedish language skill.
  • If you study Swedish with “Online Swedish” through our University partners and want to obtain academic credit points ECTS, you must attend at least 10 Swedish Conversation sessions per course.

How does our språkcafé work?

We start the session with a little warm-up, a quiz game while participants drop in to join. When we are done with the quiz game, we make a very short presentation about our Språkcafé since we always have new members. After the short presentation, you will be sent to a “breakout room”, to a small group of participants.

Your first group is going to be mixed levels. After roughly 20 minutes of mixed-level group, you will be replaced to another group so that we can even the group level as much as possible. It is not always possible since there is never the same amount of participants representing the same level. Yet, we will try our best to match the levels. Since you followed the routine and added your Swedish level to your name in ZOOM, like “Robert (A2-LEVEL)” it will not be hard to do it.

What you want to talk about in the group is up to you. We suggest some discussion topics and an online Swedish language game if you want inspiration.

You register to our Swedish språkcafé only once. Then you will get emails from us with invitations to the sessions. If you wonder when we have the next session, you can check our Events page. If the schedule of språkcafé is not updated, don’t worry; as you are registered, you will be notified about the upcoming session.

Once you are registered and get an email invitation to Språkcafé, then you will receive an email, and you can simply press the “Join the Session” button here on this page.

You press the “Join the Session” button every time you join a språkcafé session. As said earlier, you register only once and should not worry about it. In other words, you don’t register for each session. You simply press the “Join the Session” button here on this page.

When is next Speaking ses​sion?

As you register, you will receive emails in advance for upcoming sessions. We regularly have sessions on Wednesdays at 12:00 and Saturdays at 19:00 (Swedish time).  We always announce the upcoming sessions by email. That is why you need to register and check your spam box.

REGISTRATION

After submitting the form, you will receive a confirmation email. This may take a few minutes. Please check all email folders, including spam.

Make sure that you have a working microphone and camera!

Join the session (ZOOM)

Please check your spam box or other boxes, such as promotion or junk email. If you have GMAIL, our emails will most likely end up in your spam box. 

Topics for Discussion

Select your Swedish level for discussion

A1 LEVEL

A2 LEVEL

B1 LEVEL

B2 LEVEL

C1 LEVEL