Korean Course Descriptions:

Korean 1:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This is a beginner-level course designed for students with little or no previous Korean learning experience. This course initiates the development of the ability to speak, understand, read, and write in Korean. Students learn Hangul (한글), the Korean alphabet, and fundamentals of grammar, basic vocabulary, and correct pronunciation. The goal is to be able to successfully handle a variety of basic communicative tasks necessary for survival in a Korean speaking context.  

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Greet people and introduce themselves
• Write and say the Korean alphabet (Hangul)
  
• Say your age and phone number
• Say where you live
• Express your nationality and place of origin
• State your job or occupation
• Ask simple questions
• Say the days of week and months
• Use common expressions
• Identify and locate people and objects
• Express presence/possession 
  

PDFs of materials will be provided.

Korean 2:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 2 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 1 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제3과 and 제4과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Use Common - 하다 verbs
• Use the Object Particle
• Use Adverbs of Frequency
• Identify family members
• Use honorific forms and titles
• Use Native Korean Numbers and Sino-Korean Numbers
• Describe objects and people using adjectives
• Discuss university majors
• Discuss and suggest activities
• Order food in a restaurant
• Describe taste using adjectives
• Express preferences and wants

Textbooks:
Yonsei 1-1 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press
ISBN: 8997578650

Korean 3:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 3 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 2 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제5과 and 제6과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Discuss daily routines
• Ask about and discuss schedules
• Use Native Korean numbers and Sino-Korean numbers to talk about time, date, days, and duration
• Use informal speech (-아/어요)
• Use honorific forms with -요
• Discuss birthdays, gifts, and shopping locations
• Use connective particles and endings
• Discuss objects for sale using adjectives, counters, and numbers
• Use indirect object particles and adnominal endings

Textbooks:
Yonsei 1-1 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press
ISBN: 8997578650
Yonsei 1-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press
ISBN: 8997578669

Korean 4:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 4 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 3 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제7과 and 제8과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Give and ask for directions using prepositions of location
• Discuss public transportation
• Use connective endings showing cause or reason
• Use negative imperatives
• Use the future tense and ending indicating promise for the future
• Exchange phone numbers and use common phone call vocabulary
• Make appointments
• Express need for a response
• Form conditional clauses to express intentions

Textbook: Yonsei 1-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press
ISBN: 8997578669

Korean 5:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 5 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 4 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제9과 and 제10과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Discuss and compare the weather and seasons
• Discuss the ability to do an action
• Express assumptions or suppositions
• Indicate surprise or sudden realization using appropriate endings
• Use present progressive tense
• Express plans or intentions
• Express lack of capability
• Use particles to indicate approximation
• Talk about sports, exercise, and hobbies

Textbook: Yonsei 1-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press
ISBN: 8997578669

Korean 6:
(3 hours per week)

The level 6 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 5 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제1과 and 제2과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Introduce people in a variety of situations
• Introduce one’s hometown and use place-related vocabulary
• Use a variety of words related to employment, school majors and family
• Provide reasons and add emphasis
• Express an act or state is not limited to certain criteria
• Express the passing of time between occasions
• Make a comparison to soften a follow-up question
• Describe a change
• Declare one’s intentions
• Talk about someone else’s emotions
• Make predictions
• Describe new foods and how to prepare and eat them
• Discuss table manners
• Describe past experiences
• Express needs or obligation
• Express a series of actions
• Use adverbs
• Ask for permission and prohibit or restrict permission

Textbook: Yonsei 2-1 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578740

Korean 7:
(3 hours per week)

The level 7 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 6 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제3과 and 제4과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Go shopping at department stores and markets and order items
• Describe clothing
• Extend invitations to events and meetings
• Use intimate-style speech
• Use vocabulary and expressions for parties, events and meetings
• Describe juxtaposition of ideas in the same sentence
• Announce a tentative plan
• State that one has never done something
• Make a proposition based on the current situation
• Express a choice
• Express conditionals like “although”
• Announce a discovery or something unexpected
• Express one’s desires or hopes
• Suggest options
  

Textbook: Yonsei 2-1 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578740

Korean 8:
(3 hours per week)

The level 8 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 7 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제5과 and 제6과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Ask about and use various means of transportation
• Ask or state about knowledge about facts
• Express change, transferring and exchange with items
• Use conditional statements
• Express large quantity
• Express consecutive contradictory actions
• Ask questions based on the conversational context
• Make comparisons between items
• Make statements about interrupted or incomplete actions
• Use expressions related to the use of public facilities like libraries or banks
• Express a desire to speak on certain topics
• Make statements expressing concern about uncertain situations
• Make comparisons with a certain standard
• Speak about two consecutive actions or actions occurring a duration
• Express options or choices
• Show contradictory information due to unsuccessful attempts
• Express a continuous state
• Make statements showing necessity or obligation

Textbooks: Yonsei 2-1 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578740

Yonsei 2-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578757

Korean 9:
(3 hours per week)

The level 9 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 8 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제7과 and 제8과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Complete various communicative tasks over the telephone
• Make indirect quotes
• Make suggestions
• Reinterpret and paraphrase statements or pass on hearsay
• Express determination
• Show the result of a situation despite the speaker’s intention
• Convey a command as an indirect quotation
• Express a future action after another action resolves
• Visit a medical facility, explain symptoms, and visit a pharmacy
• Express where to perform an action in or on a specific space
• Combine two or more reasons in one sentence
• Express a negative and affirmative imperative i,n one statement
• Show the reasons why someone does something
• Express concepts like “someone,” “anywhere,” or “any time”
• Make empathetic statements
• Make predictions based on interpretation or observation

Textbooks: Yonsei 2-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578757

Korean 10:
(3 hours per week)

The level 10 Korean course is designed for students who have completed level 9 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Korean and learn about Korean culture. 제9과 and 제10과 of the textbook will be covered.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Use expressions related to travel, including planning a trip or making reservations
• Express the lack of alternatives
• Express past experience
• Connect two nouns together to show possession, position, etc.
• Make statements of past continuous actions
• Express elapsed time
• Make comparative statements showing similarity
• Convert an indefinite reason to explain a situation
• Express a fact based on the speaker’s experience
• Use conjunctions
• Make statements which show a correlation
• Make statements based on mistaken predictions
• Use expressions for finding housing and using chores
• Use similes to express likeness
• Give reasons based on how others have helped you
• Express concurrent actions

Textbooks: Yonsei 2-2 (English Edition), Published by Yonsei University Press

ISBN: 9788997578757

Korean Private Lessons

We offer Korean language private lessons. Private lessons are $80 per hour for 1 to 4 students. We will schedule lessons based on the availability of the student(s) and teacher. Start dates are flexible. Please register at least 2 weeks before your first lesson.