The aim of this study is to investigate the preferred language learning strategies and with the use of three different variables as: motivation, language competence as a foreign language and contact with the Spanish language investigate if they influence the preference choice. The variables that has been chosen for the sake of the investigations wider understanding of preference and effects of the choice of preferred language learning strategies by students. The investigation was applied on students that study Spanish as foreign language in a city of southern Sweden. The study theory is based on different theories of language learning strategies like R L. Oxfords theory, motivation and competence. The chosen method for this study is a quantitative investigation with questionnaire surveys. The questionnaire surveys are constructed with 68 different questions of diver’s language learning strategies and variable. The questionnaire surveys were distributed in 3 different schools with a total of 273 students that responded to them. Results have shown that the variable motivation was more preferred than competence or contact with language. This means that motivation could have an important preference significance on students that are studying Spanish as foreign language in a city south of Sweden. The results also have shown that direct strategies like memory, cognitive and compensations strategies could be more acceptable than indirect strategies like metacognitive, affective and social strategies.