Ready to move beyond B2 and keep building your Swedish? This advanced Swedish course is ideal for learners who have completed our Intermediate Swedish: B2 Conclusion course or have approximately 300 hours of prior study and wish to continue developing their skills at an advanced level of Swedish.

This course focuses on expanding spoken communication skills, deepening listening and reading comprehension, and consolidating advanced grammar and vocabulary structures through active participation, discussion, and sustained interaction. Emphasis is placed on improving flexibility in expression and refining pronunciation and natural Swedish speech at an advanced level. While some written tasks may be used to support vocabulary and grammar development, this course does not focus on advanced academic or extended writing skills.

DELIVERY MODE

Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: via Zoom / Microsoft Teams

TEXTBOOK

• Rivstart 3rd Ed C1+C2 Textbook (Natur & Kultur: 2023), ISBN 9789127462342

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Languages: To learn a new language; sound symbology and sound mimicking; idiomatic expressions
• The year round: The four seasons
• Fellow citizens: To handle conflict; self-love; body and soul; happiness and misery; groundbreaking medical research
• Society:  To address someone; culture and society; the state, the family and the individual; religion in Sweden
• Relationships: Kindness; the human condition; love in the third millennium
• Work life: Verbal presentations; difficulties with language (speaking, writing and spelling); private life and working life; stress in the workplace; work meetings
• Sweden, Swedish and the world: The Swedish language history; migration
• Technology and development: It was better before; screen time; technology in the sense of fashion
• Communication - language and Identity: Class differences are seen in the languages; new words; translations; body language
• Environment and climate: The foods that will save the planet; globalised plants and animals; consumption as therapy; climate change
• The city and the country: Comparisons between the city and the country; our nature
• Life: The life’s stages

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Understand extended spoken and written Italian texts on familiar and less familiar topics, including discussions that involve abstract ideas or multiple viewpoints.
2. Communicate with increased fluency and flexibility in sustained conversations and discussions, demonstrating improved control of register and expression.
3. Use a broader range of vocabulary and more accurate grammatical structures to express opinions, explain perspectives, and engage in nuanced interaction.