Prerequisites for the different course levels

Swedish for beginners (A1)

No prerequisites required.

Swedish for beginners with little prior knowledge (A1.2)

Greet and say goodbye to someone.

Be able to introduce yourself or someone else

Be able to talk about your day.

Be able to order in a café/restaurant.

Present/future verb forms 

The most common prepositions

A few ordinal numbers

Know the verb pattern gå - gick- har gått etc

Advanced beginners (A2 - A2.2) (challenging courses)

Conjugating verbsSpeaking and understanding well

Combining main clauses with subordinate clauses

Timeverbs (igår, för tre dagar sedan etc)

Shopping phrases

Directions.

Room description.

Various foods

Possessive pronouns (hans, hennes, etc.) 

Possessive reflexive pronouns (sin, sitt, sina).

Plural nouns, definite and indefinite

Adjectives (indefinite & definite) 

Be able to talk about leisure activities and living situations without difficulty.

Be able to hold conversations about the weather, holidays and relatives without difficulty.

Most prepositions 

Swedish for advanced learners (B1)

Be able to speak very well.

Be able to use most verb forms and adverbs of time correctly.

Ordinal numbers.

Degrees of comparison.

Irregular adjectives.

Some relative pronouns.

Body parts & visiting the doctor.

Reflexive verbs.

Some professions.

Swedish for advanced learners (B2)

Be able to speak very well and almost without errors – have a large vocabulary

Be able to understand complicated newspaper articles 

the Swedish terms are used below:

conditional 1 & 2

Participle verbs

present tense future tense

present tense and perfect participle

relative pronouns

time expressions (every, every other, every other, etc.)

S-passive

is/becomes perfect participle