New in Sweden

For those who are new in Sweden

Here, we have gathered information about what the municipality can offer you if you have been granted permanent residency status in Sweden.

Kungsbacka municipality is responsible for:

seeing to it that you find somewhere to live if you have been assigned to the municipality
that you are provided SFI teaching, Swedish for Immigrants
that you are provided with a course in societal orientation
that your children are provided with schooling. This also applies to children of asylum-seekers.

SFI

SFI teaching is adapted to your previous knowledge of Swedish and your education in your home country.

More information about SFI

Societal orientation

The courses in societal orientation contain information about Sweden's laws and rules, democracy and how Swedish governmental authorities function. Courses are taught in your mother tongue.

More information about social orientation

Language Café

At the Fyren library, you can practice speaking Swedish. On Tuesdays, from 16 - 17:30, you can meet people who speak Swedish as their mother tongue. This is free of charge.

You can find more information about these times here on the library's website or in the municipality's calendar of events, look up "språkcafé" (Language Café).

More information about Language Café (in Swedish)