Korean Course Level & Description

This beginner course introduces learners to hangul, the Korean alphabet, paying attention to pronunciation practice. Learners will practice using Korean keyboard to write.

GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Greetings
  • Introducing someone
  • Basic expressions
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Sentence structure
  • Pronouns
  • Copula
  • Particles 도, 의
  • Negative sentences
  • Usage of nouns
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 1 - 5 of Elementary Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Asking for directions
  • Buying things
  • Talking about eating
  • Asking people what they are doing
  • Talking about your study
  • Making a reservation
  • Exchanging pleasantries
  • Talking about past activities
  • Expressing wishes
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Verbs of existence and location
  • The particles 에, 하고, 은~는 , 을~를, 도
  • Particles of direction
  • Instrumental particles
  • Plurals
  • Possession
  • Place nouns
  • Types of verb
  • Dynamic location
  • Manner adverbs
  • Negation
  • Verbal nouns
  • Honorific verbs
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 6 - 10 of Elementary Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Describing an experience
  • Talking about time & days
  • Making suggestions
  • Expressing likes & dislikes
  • Asking someone out
  • Talking about families
  • Ordering food at a restaurant
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Numerical expressions
  • Particles 마다, 만, 씩,쯤, 부터, 까지
  • The formal style
  • Conjunction
  • Negative commands
  • Rhetorical retorts
  • Future tense
  • Tags
  • Suppositives
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 11 - 15 of Elementary Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Making an apology
  • Making explanations
  • Talking about food
  • Discussing likes & dislikes
  • Checking-in
  • Talking about music
  • Buying tickets
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Conjunctives
  • Infinitives
  • Compound sentences
  • Descriptive verbs
  • Tags
  • Negative commands
  • Sensory verbs
  • Nominaliser form
  • Modifiers: Prospective, Past /adjectival, Processive, Retrospective
  • Modifier clauses
  • Postmodifier patterns
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 16 - 20 of Continuing Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Discussing plans
  • Talking about the weather
  • Making requests
  • Receiving a business colleague
  • Going out
  • Accepting an invitation
  • Job interview
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Conditional forms
  • Intentive & purposive forms
  • The adverb 좀
  • First realisations
  • Conjunctions
  • Mild exclamations
  • Transferentive verbs
  • Auxiliary verbs
  • Pseudo particles
  • Plural markers
  • The diminutive 이
  • Causatives
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 21 - 25 of Continuing Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
GENERAL COMMUNICATION
  • Discussing travel plans
  • Talking about relationships
  • Discussing a novel
  • Gossiping
  • Dining with friends
GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Comparing the formal and informal speech styles
  • Transferentive copula
  • Directional particle
  • Direct and indirect quotations
  • Retrospective aspect
  • Errand reporting
  • Oblique questions
  • Summative forms
  • Postmodifier지
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 26 - 30 of Continuing Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
In this advanced course, learners will practice reading short passages on various topics to develop their reading comprehension skills.

GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Transferentive verbs
  • Expressing intentions
  • Usages of certain phrases
  • Quoted commands
  • Quoted questions
  • Quoted statements
  • Particle (으)로
  • Modifiers and postmodifiers
  • Auxiliary verbs 놓,버리-,두-
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 1 - 5 of Advanced Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
In this continuing advanced course, learners will practice reading short passages on various topics to develop their reading comprehension skills. Be introduced to some Korean proverbs.

GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Pseudo-passives
  • Expressing warnings
  • Fillers
  • Retrospective sentences
  • Suffixes
  • Transferentive directional
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 6 - 10 of Advanced Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
In this higher advanced course, learners will practice reading passages on various topics to develop their reading comprehension skills. Learners will be introduced to Chinese characters regularly used in modern Korean.

GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Derived passive
  • Correct usage of various words
  • Conditional form
  • Remote past
  • Past intentional form
  • Causatives
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 11 - 15 of Advanced Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required
In this higher advanced course, learners will practice reading passages on various topics to develop their reading comprehension skills. Learners will be introduced to Chinese characters regularly used in modern Korean.

GRAMMATICAL POINTS
  • Sudden realisation
  • Fillers
  • Retrospectives
  • Processive verbs
  • Modifiers
  • Rhetorical question
  • Contracted quotation
  • Related patterns
TEXTBOOK
  • Chapters 16 - 20 of Advanced Korean by King & Yeon (2nd). Electronic copy is available from Amazon.
DURATION
  • 8 hours online lessons
  • Additional lesson may be purchased if required