Coffee Break Swedish

In this final lesson of the Swedish Travel Diaries, we hear about how the family wrapped up their holiday on the Swedish west coast. We learn new vocabulary and new phrases, and have a look at the difference prepositions can make to the same verb.

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In the penultimate lesson of our Travel Diaries we follow Mattias and family further south along the Swedish west coast to the city of Halmstad. As the family runs into a minor crisis situation we take the opportunity to delve into lots of new phrases and grammar. We explore the difference between varsin, varsitt and varsina, and review definite and indefinite forms.

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Episode 8 of our Swedish Travel Diaries is packed with lots of grammar and new vocabulary. We follow the family to the little island of Vinga where one of Sweden's most influential troubadours grew up. While we explore Vinga we also learn new phrases and expressions.

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Following our visit to the amusement park, Liseberg, in the last episode, we now get to hear more about what the family does in the city of Göteborg. We focus on the past and perfect tenses, encounter some new phrasal verbs, and look at familiar vocabulary in new contexts.

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In this episode we follow the family to the amusement park Liseberg in Gothenburg. During this rainy day we get the chance to practise the perfect tense and really put our understanding of phrasal verbs to the test.

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In this lesson we explore the small town Skärhamn on the Swedish west coast where we take the opportunity to delve into slightly more complex grammar. We look at how certain words can carry different meanings depending on the context and how other words can be used to subtly to convey different feelings. Of course, we also learn some new phrases and vocabulary along the way!

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Welcome to the next instalment of the Coffee Break Swedish Travel Diaries! Day four of the trip takes us to the swimming spot, Bleket. The weather is shifting, which causes the mood of some family members to shift too. As we dive into salty water, we learn new vocabulary and grammar, before rounding off the day with a nice meal in a setting most Swedes would look forward to all winter.

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In this lesson, the family leaves Marstrand to travel to nearby island Klädesholmen. We get to hear stories about Mattias's childhood as he takes us up and down the streets lined by white wooden houses on this rocky island full of rose bushes, sunshine, and sailboats. We learn some new vocabulary and revise verb tenses along the way!

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The adventures of the family continue! In this episode we follow them as they take the ferry over to the island of Marstrandsön - an island full of sunshine, history, old fortresses, ghosts, and seagulls. This lesson builds on a lot of the grammar we are already familiar with and we encounter verbs in new tenses. We also see some new and useful constructions, and learn more about some of Sweden's most infamous criminals.

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Welcome to the very first episode of the Coffee Break Swedish Travel Diaries! In Episode 1 we are introduced to a family of four as they drive down from the city of Uppsala to spend their summer holidays on the West Coast of Sweden. As we get to know them and follow their initial drive down to the coast we review some key grammar, including tenses and compound words, and are introduced to both new vocabulary and grammar points.

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