Summer Term 2025
Virtual Classes using Zoom
Registration for Summer Term, 2025 is now open.
Starting May 3, 2025 the Swedish School-Svenska Skolan will offer a shortened summer term of 6 lessons from May 3 – June 14, designed for students who want to continue their Swedish studies or who are familiar with the fundamentals of the Swedish language.
Summer term classes will continue to build upon the fundamentals of Swedish for Beginners. For Intermediate and Advanced students, the classes will emphasize oral communication, grammar, and textual examinations. The summer term offers a relaxed and enjoyable way to continue your Swedish language journey.
Registration will be available on April 1, 2025 for the following two courses:
(100) and (200) Combined Beginner and Advanced Beginner Swedish – Summer Term (Saturday Mornings) May 3-June 14, 2025
(300) and (400) Combined Intermediate and Advanced Swedish – Summer Term (Saturday Mornings) May 3- June 14, 2025
Fall and Spring Term Courses
The Swedish School-Svenska Skolan offers virtual classes using Zoom which cater to language learners at (100) Beginner, (200) Advanced Beginner, (300) Intermediate and (400) Advanced levels.
In our classes the emphasis is on the fundamentals of Swedish for our beginners, and oral communication with various practices, complemented with lessons on grammar, textual examinations and analysis in the Intermediate and Advanced levels.
Please review course information below and contact us with any questions at Director@theswedishschool.org.
Description of Courses:
(100) Beginner Swedish
This course stresses correct pronunciation by frequent repetition and teaching vocabulary and grammatical structures using culturally authentic texts. It focuses on developing your conversational skills through various communicative exercises as well as reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary exercises.
Goal: Basic dialogue about daily life
- Personal introductions and greetings
- Formal and informal styles
- Courtesy and cultural expressions
- Everyday communication
- Asking for directions
- Ordering food
- Education and work
- Geography and weather
- Culture
- Family and relationships
- Leisure activities including but not limited to shopping
- Alphabet, numbers and time expressions
Key grammatical areas of this courses include the following:
- Word order, main clause, questions and answers, personal pronouns, definite and indefinite form of nouns in singular and plural, interrogative adverbs, negation, present tense of verbs, auxiliary verbs, help verbs, indefinite form of adjective singular and plural, prepositions
Textbook: Rivstart A1+A2, 3d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Exercise book: Rivstart A1+A2, 3d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Textbooks and workbooks are available for purchase from the school. We will send you a link to the book purchase page once we receive your registration.
(200) Advanced Beginner Swedish
Prerequisite: Students must have completed a beginner level course or equivalent.
This course teaches the same materials (textbook and exercise book) and key grammatical areas as in the beginner’s level class but includes more complex exercises and prepares students to advance to the next level (300 – Intermediate). This class will be complemented with independent learning materials, carefully selected by the instructor, once the Rivstart series has been completed.
Textbook: Rivstart A1+A2 3d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Exercise book: Rivstart A1+A2, 3d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Textbooks and workbooks are available for purchase from the school. We will send you a link to the book purchase page once we receive your registration.
(300) Intermediate Swedish
Prerequisite: Two years of Swedish language classes or the equivalent
Through oral presentations, written and oral grammar exercises on a regular basis, students in this class will be equipped with skills to carry out longer conversations in informal and semi-formal settings. This class will also help prepare students to participate in discussions on current events, news and themes or subjects related to Swedish language, society and culture.
Goal: Increased skills and comfort level in spoken and written Swedish language:
- A variety of meaningful and creative “hands on” exercises will be offered to boost spoken and written Swedish language skills in common everyday life situations
- Fun and interesting texts, articles and news items are regularly shared with students for increased vocabulary, conversational and reading or analytical skills
Key grammatical areas in this course include the following:
- Adverbs, adjectives and nouns in definite form, superlative of adjectives, past participle and perfect participle of verbs, passive form of verbs, intransitive and transitive verbs.
Textbook: Rivstart B1+B2 2d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Exercise book: Rivstart B1+B2, 2d edition, Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm
Textbooks and workbooks are available for purchase from the school. We will send you a link to the book purchase page once we receive your registration.
(400) Advanced Swedish
Prerequisite: A solid background in Swedish
Intensive course conducted in Swedish only
Goal: Increase proficiency level and advanced vocabulary and grammatical comprehension
- Focus on more complex conversations and discussions about everyday life, current events and special interests.
- Lessons on how to give well-organized and creative oral presentations of novels; students will present their work to one another and regularly receive feedback from the instructor and classmates on areas of development
Key grammatical areas in this course include the following:
- Advanced level grammar exercises for further development, including textual and critical analysis
Textbook: Study materials include independent texts from daily newspapers as well as texts written to highlight cultural aspects of Swedish society
Instructor: Fredrik Starmark, M.A.
Spring Semester 2025, Books and Instructors