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Discover the Beauty of Korean: Start Learning Korean from Scratch

Looking to learn Korean? This comprehensive course, created by three university instructors passionate about the Korean language, makes learning accessible and enjoyable for everyone, even complete beginners. Based on the textbook Suteki na Kankoku-go Shokyū (Lovely Korean Beginner), this course provides a supportive learning environment, similar to being in a classroom.

What Makes This Course Special?

• Engaging Video Lessons: Follow along with our video lessons and learn at your own pace.
• Downloadable Resources: Access printable PDF resources ("reources") for practice and review.
• Comprehensive Textbook: Suteki na Kankoku-go Shokyū includes abundant examples and exercises. Answer keys and audio are available for download from the publisher's website.
• Cultural Insights: Enjoy 10 engaging "columns" featuring conversations between two students, highlighting commonalities and differences between Korean and Japanese cultures – praised for being both funny and informative!

Course Content: A Structured Approach to Korean

This course is divided into two sections: Foundation and Practical Application.

Foundation (基礎編): Building a Strong Base

• Hangeul (한글): Learn the origins, reading, writing, and pronunciation of the Korean alphabet.
• Basic Greetings: Master essential Korean greetings and polite expressions.
• Vowels: Understand and practice both single and double vowels.
• Consonants: Learn the different types of consonants (plain, tense, dense) and their pronunciation.
• Batchim (받침): Grasp the rules of batchim (final consonants) – how they sound and how they affect pronunciation.
• Pronunciation Changes: Understand how sounds change in Korean.
• Word Segmentation: Learn how Korean words are divided into syllables.
• Korean Representation of Japanese: Understand how Japanese words are written in Hangeul.

Practical Application (会話編): Conversational Korean

This section focuses on building conversational skills, based on dialogues between two university students.

• Lesson 1: ~は (wa) and ~です (desu) – Basic sentence structure.
• Lesson 2: ~ではありません (de wa arimasen) and こ・そ・あ・ど (ko so a do) – Negative statements and particles.
• Lesson 3: がいます・あります (ga imasu/arimasu) and がいません・ありません (ga imasen/arimasen) – Existence and non-existence.
• Lesson 4: Korean numerals and ですね・ますね (desu ne/masu ne) – Numbers and polite agreement.
• Lesson 5: です・ます (desu/masu), を (o), and で (de) – Polite forms and common particles.
• Lesson 6: が好きだ (ga suki da), からまで (~kara ~made), and Negation 1 & 2 – Expressing likes, ranges, and different types of negation.
• Lesson 7: Korean numerals and しましょうか (shimashou ka) and しましょう (shimashou) – Numbers and suggestions.
• Lesson 8: したい (shitai), するつもりです (suru tsumori desu), と (to), and すれば・したら (~sureba/shitara) – Expressing desires and intentions.
• Lesson 9: してください (shite kudasai), すればいいです (sureba ii desu), してはいけません (shite wa ikemasen), からまで (kara ~made), and ~で・ に (~de/ni) – Making requests and expressing prohibitions.
• Lesson 10: Past tense and しに (shi ni) and けれども (keredomo) – Expressing past actions and conditional clauses.

Course Structure:

The "Foundation" section consists of 16 lectures, while the "Practical Application" section has 10 lessons, totaling 17 lectures. To facilitate a comfortable learning pace, some lessons are divided into two parts.

Start your Korean language journey today!