Course description and application
Subject
Swedish as a foreign language. The course gives basic spoken and written knowledge of the Swedish language, as well as an insight into Swedish culture and society.
Level
Beginners.
Method
Distance learning course on the Internet with teacher support. You will communicate with your teacher via e-mail and skype for chats. For the course, you will have access to an educational platform devised for distance learning. Eight individual chats (à 60 minutes) with the teacher (Skype) are included in each step of the course. Further chats cost 44 Euro/chat.
Material
Most of the course material is on the Internet. The material has been specially written and adapted with the Net in mind. On top of this there will be pronunciation exercises, songs, video clips, and more on CD-rom, as well as a certain amount of printed material.
The course is divided into six modules, to suit people with different amounts of time available for study. The six modules correspond to 140 hours of education.
Step 1: Modules 1–3 (approx. 3 months)
Step 2: Modules 4–6 (approx. 4 months)
Course content
In the Lingua 2-course we meet the French student Nathalie who learn Swedish at a distance via the Internet through a university back home in France. Thanks to a grant, her dream of traveling to Sweden becomes a reality and she arrives at Uppsala University to study Swedish.
We may then follow Natalie during a fall semester in Uppsala, where she is living the student life, in a corridor with other students. She attends to parties, makes a visit to Stockholm as well as to the forest for mushroom picking. During her few months in Uppsala, Nathalie becomes acquainted with Swedish everyday situations and events, culture and traditions, and (in the later modules) with the Swedish literature.
Course run
There are no fixed starting dates, it is up to the student when she/he wishes to commence the course. Furthermore and importantly, the student study at her/his own pace, also according to the advice and help of the teacher.
NB - it will not be possible to start the course during July 2012 due to summer vacation in Sweden.
Course fee
STEP 1: 450 €
A CD-rom with songs, video clips, and pronunciation exercises and a grammar exercise book "Första övningsboken i svensk grammatik" + "Facit", by G. Hellström are included.
Eight individual chats (à 60 minutes) with the teacher (Skype) are included in the course. Further chats cost 44 Euro/chat.
STEP 2: 450 €
Eight individual chats (à 60 minutes) with the teacher (Skype) are included in the course. Further chats cost 44 Euro/chat.
System requirements
PC with an Internet connection (Internet Explorer 5.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or more), a soundcard, a CD-drive, loudspeaker or headset and a microphone.
Project 89745-CP-1-2001-1-SE-Lingua-L2
The course is a result of an EU project within the Socrates/Lingua 2 programme. It has been developed by institutions in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden. The Swedish Institute is the co-ordinator of the project.
Registration
To register for the course, please send us the application form via e-mail stating your intent to enroll in the course. Dutch speaking students have to contact the partner universities in Gent and Groningen.
The form should be sent to: 
with copy to 
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NB - it will not be possible to start the course during July 2012 due to summer vacation in Sweden.
After we have received your registration you will get a confirmation ("first come, first served") and also instructions about payment procedures. When the payment has been received by the Swedish Institute, the CD-roms will be sent to you. You will also receive the Internet address to the course and your password.
After completing the course you will receive a certificate. For information about an international examination in Swedish as a foreign language, see Swedex. Please note that the Swedex examination is independent of the web course.