This essay was implemented with the aim of investigating the different factors that could affect Swedish students in their Spanish studies. More specifically, the study aimed to investigate to what degree certain factors affect the students in terms of oral comunication. For this reason, the essay presents a result regarding oral production, listening comprehension as well as oral interaction. Furthermore, the study aspired to investigate the correlation between time spent in countries where Spanish is the official language and oral communication competence, if there exits such a correlation and if so, to what extent. The method that was used for the investigation was a cuantitative one along with a statistical analysis with approximately 190 participants. Through this method the investigation reached a result which shows the different perceptions of the professors teaching Spanish as a foreign language as well as their students regarding the importance of each factor that affects the students’ oral production. The investigation also proved that there in fact exits a great correlation between the time spent in a Spanish speaking country and oral communication competence, since the students’ perceptions showed that the longer the students spend in a Spanish speaking country, the more their competence increases.