Language Cafes

Our Language Cafes run from 21 September until 11 December.


Welcome to our Language Cafes!

  • Check in at the front desk before joining a cafe
  • If you are a student or alumn at SU, you don't need to register in advance
  • Japanese Cafes - Require Sign Up (opens on Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. for next week's cafes)
  • Five participants per coordinator, first come, first served

Cancelled Cafes CurreNt Week (43)

Monday: Dutch (SU)

Thursday: Vietnamese (SU), Swedish (SU), Albanian (SU)


Later Cancelled cafes

w.45: Swedish (SU) on Thursday
w.48: Thai (SU)

Språkstudion on Canvas

For participants and coordinators - Get notifications on cancelled cafes - Communicate with your fellow coordinators

 

Two students talking over a cup of tea

Photo: Språkstudion

As a Language Cafe Coordinator, you help other students practice your language in a relaxed setting. You share your language and culture while actively contributing to student life.

Join us and enjoy an international community!

Welcome to join as a Language Cafe Coordinator!

Email us at info@sprakstudion.su.se and include:

  • Which language you speak
  • Whether you would like to be on campus or online (via Zoom)

You can join anytime during the semester.

As a Language Cafe Coordinator, you share your language and culture with others who want to learn. A Language Cafe Coordinator should know the cafe language on a native level.

The basic tasks of a coordinator are to:

  • Provide topics and get conversations started
  • Make sure that conversations are flowing smoothly
  • Try to make sure that all participants are included
  • Ask and answer questions

Coordinators are expected to:

  • Join the meeting room five minutes before the cafe starts to check in
  • Notify Språkstudion in advance if they are unable to attend a cafe

What you get:

  • The opportunity to share your language and culture with other students
  • A chance to get to know new people and make friends
  • Experience of leading a group

If you participate as a coordinator at least 8 times during the semester, you will receive a certificate issued by the director of the Language Studio.

At the link below, we have gathered some suggestions and inspiration that might be useful in your role as a language cafe coordinator:

Tips and materials for coordinators

A relaxed and welcoming environment where you can practice a language while meeting new people. The Lanugage Cafes offer a rich, international student life.

The cafes are led by volunteer coordinators (not language teachers, but regular students).

On campus

On Zoom

  • If the Lanugage Cafe is on Zoom, enter via the link at the top of this page.

The Zoom Room opens around 10 minutes before the cafe begins. You will first enter a waiting room. Please feel free to use a headset.

  • All students and staff at Stockholm University. Alumni are also welcome.
  • All students and staff from any of our partner universities.

There are 5 participants max. per coordinator, first come, first served. You are welcome to contact us if you travel from far, to get updates about coordinator availability for the day.

Partner universities
All CIVIS universities
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Leipzig University, Germany
Osaka University, Japan
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
University of Thessaly, Greece


Participants from Stockholm university (student or alumn)

No registration is needed. Check in at the Front Desk before the cafe.

Participants from partner universities

  • You need to register online


Partner universities
All CIVIS universities
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Leipzig University, Germany
Osaka University, Japan
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
University of Thessaly, Greece

Yes, basic knowledge of the cafe language is necessary.

On campus

Albanian
Arabic
Arabic Media Club
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Swedish for staff
Swedish Sign Language
Thai
Vietnamese

On Zoom

Czech*
English
Nordic Language Cafe
Romance Language Cafe
Slavic Language Cafe
Swedish
Tamil*
*(Upon request. Mail to info@sprakstudion.su.se to participate)

Participation in a Language Cafe is based on mutual respect between participants. The following behaviour is strictly not permitted:

  • Making offensive statements regarding ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or religion
  • Making inappropriate or unwelcomed dating suggestions
  • Sexual harassment
  • Any other offensive behaviour

Such behaviour towards fellow Language Cafe participants, coordinators or Språkstudion's staff will result in immediate and indefinite suspension from the Language Cafes.

Last updated: 2026-10-23

Source: Språkstudion, Department of Linguistics

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