"Take Your First Step into Korean Learning!"
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Sample Lessons
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Main topics of the Level 1 course:
- Basic greetings
- How to count numbers in Korean
- Basic grammar for forming your first Korean sentences
- Present and past tense
- How to say "who", "why", and "how" in Korean
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Table of Contents
Average lesson length: 8.5 minutes
Lesson 1. Hello. Thank you. / ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
Lesson 2. Yes. No. What? / ๋ค. ์๋์. ๋ค?
Lesson 3. Good-bye. See you. / ์๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์. ์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. ์๋ .
Lesson 4. Iโm sorry. Excuse me. / ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ์.
Lesson 5. Itโs me. What is it? / ์ ์์. ๋ญ์์?
Lesson 6. What is this? This is โฆ / ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์์? ์ด๊ฑฐโฆ
Lesson 7. This, That, It / ์ด, ๊ทธ, ์
Lesson 8. Itโs NOT me. / ์๋์์.
Lesson 9. Particles for Topic and Subject / ์, ๋, ์ด, ๊ฐ
Lesson 10. have, donโt have, there is, there isnโt / ์์ด์, ์์ด์
Lesson 11. Please give me. / ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Lesson 12. Itโs delicious. Thank you for the food. / ๋ง์์ด์. ์ ๋จน๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋จน์์ต๋๋ค.
Lesson 13. I want to โฆ / -๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
Lesson 14. What do you want to do? / ๋ญ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์?
Lesson 15. Sino-Korean Numbers / ์ผ, ์ด, ์ผ, ์ฌ
Lesson 16. Basic Present Tense / -์์, -์ด์, -์ฌ์
Lesson 17. Past Tense / -์/์/์์ด์ (ํ์ด์)
Lesson 18. Particles for Location / ์, ์์
Lesson 19. When / ์ธ์
Lesson 20. Native Korean numbers / ํ๋, ๋, ์ , ๋ท
Lesson 21. Negative Sentences / ์, -์ง ์๋ค
Lesson 22. ํ๋ค verbs
Lesson 23. Who? / ๋๊ตฌ?
Lesson 24. Why? How? / ์? ์ด๋ป๊ฒ?
Lesson 25. From A To B, From C Until D / -์์/๋ถํฐ -๊น์ง
Review What Youโve Learned in Level 1
What you can find in this course:
Lesson notes
Sample dialogues
Review quizzes
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i really don’t like the audio lessons. as things get more complex, i feel that that graphic videos lessons would be better, like you did with lesson 9/particles which i had to find on youtube
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In lesson 7, you said that ๊ฑฐ/๊ฒ can be only used for object. But in Lesson 23 – ๋๊ตฌ, you make the sentence ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ตฌ์์? (Who is this?) instead of ์ด ์ฌ๋/๋ถ. Please help me explain that
That sentence is sometimes used in spoken language. It’s used when referring to objects. For example, when looking at a figure, you can say, ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ตฌ์ผ?.
Can anyone help me to understand why you use โ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ตฌ์์โ instead of โ์ด์ฌ๋ ๋๊ตฌ์์โ?
The first example is, “Who is this?” and the 2nd is, “Who is this person/man/woman?” so word choice is correct.
Terrible website. Cannot advance lessons. Iโve completed 5 and it wonโt mark completed beyond lesson 2.
Also, Audio files for dictation are hard to find.
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I canโt access the lessons. I tried clicking on lesson 10 but nothing happens.
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I canโt seem to access the audios to hear the lessons. It worked for me before but it no longer is โน๏ธ
Never mind itโs just not working on my iPhone browser for some weird reason. But I love this site Iโm learning so much.
Would LOVE some clarification on this!!!
IN LESSON #9:
Why do they use the example, ์ด์ฑ for “this book”?’
I thought they would use ์ด๊ฑฐ์ฑ for “this book” since we learned that we learned that ์ด๊ฑฐ meant “This/This thing” not just “์ด”.
In addition to what Cora and Daniel said, you wouldnt use ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฑ to suffice for it is a book, it has to be ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฑ ์ด์์.
๋ค, ์ด means “this”, and ๊ฑฐ means “thing, item, stuff”. So it would make sense for this book to be “์ด์ฑ ” and not “์ด๊ฑฐ์ฑ ”.
์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฑ – This is a book.
์ด์ฑ – This book
์ด์ฑ is “this book”, in the most basic form, with ์ด serving as “this” ์ด๊ฑฐ is more like “this is”, so ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฑ is more like “this is a book”
I’ve moved past lesson 23, but I’m still confused about the use of “์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ตฌ์์”. I thought that you weren’t supposed to use ์ด๊ฑฐ when referring to people. That being said, why is “์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ตฌ์์” used instead of “์ด์ฌ๋ ๋๊ตฌ์์”? Does “์ด์ฌ๋ ๋๊ตฌ์์” sound awkward (or less “normal”) in every day conversation?
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I had a question about pronunciation. In lesson 12 (level 1), the romanization for ์ ๋จน๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค is [jal meok-kket-sseum-ni-da]. It seems like the “์ต” sound should be more like a “sseup” sound instead of a “sseum” sound. Is this just for easier pronunciation of the word?
ํฐํฐ๋ฏน ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค!!
์งํฌ, ์ฌ๋
Thank you for the tip!
That’s really just how they make sound when ใ is followed by ใด due to nasalization. Same for ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค it comes out as kamsahamnida. Or ์ฌ๋ผ์ ๋๋ค (This is Sarah) comes out as Sarah-imnida. It happens to ใฑ and ใ as well like how the word ๊ตญ๋ฏผ(nation) is pronounced koong-min instead of kookmin. I hope this makes sense.
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I have a question about this sample dialogue conversation from Lesson 9
A: ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ณต์ญ์์์?
A: Is this a peach?
B: ์๋์. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์ฌ๊ณผ์์.
B: No, That’s an apple.
A: ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ณต์ญ์์์?
A: Then is THIS a peach?
B: ๋ค, ๋ง์์.
B: Yes, that’s right.
When A says ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ณต์ญ์์์?, why it is ์ด๊ฒ instead of just ์ด๊ฑฐ, if it is ์ด๊ฑฐ, then is ์ด๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ๋ณต์ญ์์์? same/correct as well? In general when use ์ด๊ฒ/์ด๊ฑฐ?
I am sorry that I cannot answer all the questions but from what I know ์ด๊ฑฐ is actually ์ด๊ฒ but the ใ is omitted. So if you are trying to add a subject particle you have to use ์ด๊ฒ so it becomes ์ด๊ฒ์ด. ์ด๊ฑฐ๊ฐ is wrong. I hope I helped ^_^
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I have used “CONTROL P” i the past and it worked. But I’ve found the workbooks to be soooo much more helpful. There is one for each level and they match the audio lessons as well as written words and phrases.
I wish there was a review PDF.
We offer grammar books in both print and electronic formats. Feel free to choose between the printed or digital version. Thank you. ๐
There used to be but I think they removed them when streamlining the site in August. The workbooks are better than the pdf in my opinion. I do have level1 pdfs saved on my work computer
Hi, I have just bought the subscription and started my journey. During the audio, I will need a pdf format of the lessons. Because, you know, it makes me uncomfortable to learn grammar rules from the site page. Where I can find the PDFs of the lessons?
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The workbooks for each level are great. I know I know more money. Control P works also.
์๋ ํ์ธ์! Are there any rules for writing numbers in words?
I apologize, but I didn’t quite grasp the intent of your question. Could you please rephrase it? ๐
From what I can tell, unless you spell them out, like ํ๋, they use (1) roman numbers in writing.
Great course, engaging in every step.
The final review is quite helpful – so are the exercises at the end of each lesson.