Skulle du vilja tala med mig i kväll?

Using skulle du vilja makes the question more polite and less direct than vill du.

• Vill du tala med mig i kväll? = more direct: Do you want to talk to me tonight?
• Skulle du vilja tala med mig i kväll? = softer: Would you like to talk to me tonight?

So skulle here is not really about past time. It is being used to make the request sound more courteous or tentative.

Formally, skulle is historically related to a past form, but in this sentence it does not mean past time. It is being used in a conditional/polite way, similar to English would.

So a learner should think of it here as:

• skulle = would
• not was going to or anything clearly past

This is a common Swedish verb pattern.

• skulle works as a helping verb
• vilja is the main verb meaning to want
• then tala is another infinitive after that

So the structure is:

skulle + subject + vilja + infinitive

In English, the equivalent is similar:

• Would you like to speak...

Swedish often stacks verbs like this without adding a word for to between them.

After modal or helping verbs such as skulle, Swedish normally uses the infinitive without att.

So:

• skulle vilja
• kan tala
• vill gå
• måste läsa

Not:

• skulle att vilja ❌

This is similar to English, where you say would like, not would to like.

Because this is a yes/no question. In Swedish, yes/no questions are usually formed by putting the finite verb first.

Statement:

• Du skulle vilja tala med mig i kväll.

Question:

• Skulle du vilja tala med mig i kväll?

So the pattern is:

• finite verb + subject + rest

That is very normal Swedish question word order.

Because tala med means speak with / talk to in the natural conversational sense.

• tala med någon = talk/speak with someone

Using till would sound different and is not the normal choice here. For ordinary conversation, med is what you want.

So:

• tala med mig = natural
• tala till mig = generally not what learners should choose here

Both can mean speak/talk, but they are not exactly identical in tone.

• tala can sound a bit more formal, careful, or neutral
• prata is often more everyday and conversational

So this sentence could also be:

• Skulle du vilja prata med mig i kväll?

That version may sound a little more natural in casual spoken Swedish. But tala is completely correct.

I kväll means this evening / tonight.

It is commonly written as:

• i kväll

You may also see:

• ikväll

Both occur in modern Swedish. The two-word version is very common and fully correct.

So as a learner, you should recognize both spellings as the same expression.

Roughly, it sounds like:

• ee kvel

A few notes:

• i is a long vowel, like ee
• kväll has the kv sound at the start
• ä is somewhat like the vowel in English bed, though not exactly

Do not pronounce it like English eye for i. Swedish i here is closer to ee.

In careful writing, it is spelled mig, but in normal speech it is usually pronounced more like mej.

So:

• written: mig
• common pronunciation: mej

That is very normal in Swedish. Many common pronouns have pronunciations that differ from how an English speaker might expect from the spelling.

The main stress usually falls on the words carrying the important meaning, especially:

• vilja
• tala
• mig
• kväll

A natural rhythm might be something like:

Skulle du VILja TALA med MEJ i KVÄLL?

Function words like du and i are usually less stressed.

It depends a lot on context and tone of voice.

By itself, it is neutral:

• Would you like to talk to me tonight?

But depending on the situation, it could sound:

• ordinary and practical
• emotionally serious
• slightly formal
• even intimate

That is not because of the grammar alone, but because asking to talk tonight can imply that something important is going to be discussed.

Yes. A very natural everyday version would be:

• Skulle du vilja prata med mig ikväll?

Differences:

• prata sounds more conversational than tala
• ikväll is just the one-word spelling of i kväll

Your original sentence is correct, but this alternative may sound more relaxed in daily speech.