"Take Your First Step into Korean Learning!"
Sample Lessons
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
Table of Contents
Average lesson length: 8.5 minutes
Lesson 1. Hello. Thank you. / 안녕하세요. 감사합니다.
Lesson 2. Yes. No. What? / 네. 아니요. 네?
Lesson 3. Good-bye. See you. / 안녕히 가세요. 안녕히 계세요. 안녕.
Lesson 4. I’m sorry. Excuse me. / 죄송합니다. 저기요.
Lesson 5. It’s me. What is it? / 저예요. 뭐예요?
Lesson 6. What is this? This is … / 이거 뭐예요? 이거…
Lesson 7. This, That, It / 이, 그, 저
Lesson 8. It’s NOT me. / 아니에요.
Lesson 9. Particles for Topic and Subject / 은, 는, 이, 가
Lesson 10. have, don’t have, there is, there isn’t / 있어요, 없어요
Lesson 11. Please give me. / 주세요.
Lesson 12. It’s delicious. Thank you for the food. / 맛있어요. 잘 먹겠습니다. 잘 먹었습니다.
Lesson 13. I want to … / -고 싶어요
Lesson 14. What do you want to do? / 뭐 하고 싶어요?
Lesson 15. Sino-Korean Numbers / 일, 이, 삼, 사
Lesson 16. Basic Present Tense / -아요, -어요, -여요
Lesson 17. Past Tense / -았/었/였어요 (했어요)
Lesson 18. Particles for Location / 에, 에서
Lesson 19. When / 언제
Lesson 20. Native Korean numbers / 하나, 둘, 셋, 넷
Lesson 21. Negative Sentences / 안, -지 않다
Lesson 22. 하다 verbs
Lesson 23. Who? / 누구?
Lesson 24. Why? How? / 왜? 어떻게?
Lesson 25. From A To B, From C Until D / -에서/부터 -까지
Review What You’ve Learned in Level 1
What you can find in this course:
Lesson notes
Sample dialogues
Review quizzes
Review lesson
Why you'll LOVE our Core Grammar courses
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All Levels Covered
By simply following our curriculum that covers 10 levels, you can take your Korean skills from absolute beginner all the way up to advanced. -
Short and Digestible Lessons
Each lesson is bite-sized and easy to understand, as it focuses on one grammar point at a time and provides many example sentences. -
Fun Story-based Reviews
You can review the entire course through a fun story! The final lesson of each course features a fun story that allows you to review all the grammar and vocabulary introduced in the course. -
Review Quizzes and Interactive Audio Lessons
You can test your new knowledge through review quizzes and interactive audio lessons, where our teachers ask you questions, and you can respond and check where you need to improve.
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Level 1 Textbook
Level 1 Workbook
Level 1 Textbook & Workbook Package
I can’t download the lessons.. aren’t they available anymore?!!
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Once you add the course, you can find it from your learning centre:) If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Hello ! First of all I would like to say thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you my korean has improved and I’m really happy ! 🙂
But I just have one problem (or maybe I do things the wrong way ?…) : I wanted to go back to korean level 1 in order to check some old lessons but it seems like it doesn’t work anymore. I can’t go back to review them…that’s too bad. What can I do ?
Thank you in advance and Happy New Year !
감사합니다! 새해 복 많이 받으세요!
Thank you so much ! 🙂
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. If you completed your course, you should check your completed course box under my account. Hope this helps:)
Hi, guys! Just finished Level 1 and wanted to say thank you for your work. I had been learning Korean by myself before I came across your website, and even though I had already studied most of the topics covered in Level 1, it was good to review them and learn some small but interesting details. Your audios are so entertaining that they are fun to listen to for people with any level of Korean (not that mine is particularly high ?). I’m a big fan of yours! Once again, 감사합니다! 고마웡! ^_^
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us, and we will do our best! Happy New Year 🙂
Como eu faço pra ouvir os PDFs
No ablo Español. Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. The PDF and MP3 files can be found at the bottom of each lesson description represented by PDF and MP3 icons. We do not have direct transcripts of the MP3s, but the PDFs cover the lesson materials mentioned in the audio. Hope this helps:)
Como puedo descargar los PDF??
No ablo Español. Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. The PDF and MP3 files can be found at the bottom of each lesson description represented by PDF and MP3 icons. We do not have direct transcripts of the MP3s, but the PDFs cover the lesson materials mentioned in the audio. Hope this helps:)
안녕하세요! 저는 고등학생입니다. 필리핀에서 살고 있고 한국어를 거의 9(아니면 10?)개월 동안 공부했어요. 덕분에 내 한국어 실력을 너무 많이 늘었어요 ^^ 계속 공부하고 유창하지고 싶습니다!
Please correct me if there are any mistakes or if something sounds unnatural ^^
Hi Tokki, I am about to buy another set of TTMIK books but the shipping cost is just really expensive. If ever you wanna get some books, please let me know and we can share the shipping fee ?
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. I edited your sentence, and hope this helps:) 안녕하세요. 저는 필리핀에 살고 있는 고등학생 입니다. 한국어를 약 10개월 정도 공부했습니다. 그래서 저의 한국어 실력이 정말 많이 늘었어요 ^^ 계속 공부하면서 앞으로는 한국말을 더 유창하게 하고 싶습니다.
guys can you give me a solution for learning korean and palance it with school im truely confiused cant find time in these exams and school + iwant to ask you a question whats you reason for studing korean
Hello! Since it’s Christmas break,I am studying korean again! My advice for you is to study for 30 minutes if you are busy on doing school works but if you have more time, study for 1 hr. And, if you are too busy with acads, just review vocabulary words and that’s it.
안녕하세요. I don’t exactly have a trick when it came to balancing Korean self-study and exams/school. However when I didn’t do exams I study Korean, but when I did I just stop studying Korean completely to focus on my exams. Balancing school, exams and also Korean self-study is really hard but I recommend that you focus on your schoolwork more than the Korean.
Somethings maybe you could do though is pick a day and study an hour every week during exams. Just revise the stuff you have learned, instead of studying new things. Which would leave more time to study for school exams.
I study Korean because it is something that I want to use in my future. Plus I find it really interesting, the language and also the Korean culture.
Hope this helps
Level 1 Korean Grammar was really useful for me, I was able to get integrated into learning Korean. I am now on level 4 of the curriculum because level 1 was able to get me learning Korean easily. I also went over the lessons in level 1 a lot and the pdf, as well as the audio, is very useful. 감사합니다 TTMIK!!!
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Happy to hear that you’ve been enjoying our learning materials. Thank you for sharing your comment:)
What does the “Level 1 Korean Grammar” contain?? I can’t find any audio button.
the same for me !!!
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Please check the table of contents. Once you add the course, you can start studying Level 1 Korean Grammar:)
thank you so much for this study guide
Continue this hard work “fighting”
This website is really so helpful. Its also so organized.
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. We are glad to hear that. Thank you for studying with us!!
TTMIK 안녕하세요!
저는 22살 가나사람입니다. 그런데 독일에서 삽니다. 이년에 4월부터, 한국말 공부기 시작했입니다. TTMIK 때문에 한국어를 조금만 할수있다. 그래서: 고맙습니다!
Now in english 🙂 : At the beginning of this year I stared listening to K-pop and watching K-dramas, which is not something I ever thought would interest me. I then discovered Koreanenglishman and Jolly on Youtube, which introduced me to even more of the Korean culture, people and language. This made me want to understand and possibly even speak Korean. Fast foward 6 months: I’m currently midway through Level 2, I can understand quite a bit of the language and even have been able to use what I’ve learned so far to speak to the waitresses at a 맛집 nearby (they were very impressed and gave our table extra 김치). I am really thankful for all the free resources you provide and for making the lessons super practical and easy to follow! 선현우 선생님, 최경은 선생님, TTMIK 맴버들이다: 감시합니다!
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. We are really happy to hear you like us! You’ve been studying Korean for almost 6 months, but your Korean skill is so amazing!! Keep studying hard with TTMIK, and you might speak Korean comfortably soon 🙂
First off I’ll start by saying how grateful I am for all the efforts you guys are taking for literal strangers to be able to learn Korean. I love how you guys go about it too.
Coming to the question, I’m confused about how you pronounce “ne”.
I’ve watched one Korean show before, and it always sounded like it was pronounced as “de” “day”. When you slowly pronounced it I did hear ne but on normal usage in a sentence it again sounded like “de”.
I tried pronouncing it as “ne” but the “n” sound is so clear in it that it doesn’t sound authentic. I would appreciate some help. Thank you
It is “ne”, Its the way they say the n that makes it sound like a d but im sure they understand whichever way you say it.
I just checked and the link works:) If you cannot open it, please visit our TTMIK facebook.
Thank you for replying Hwayeon Kim. Unfortunately it tells me the link might be broken or a page might have been removed when I tried to open it. Awaiting further response. Thank you
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Our teacher Hyunwoo explains about that issue from our facebook; https://www.facebook.com/talktomeinkorean/inbox/?mailbox_id=436808480033&selected_item_id=10162198568295034
Thank you for all. I’m super lazy. I have been living in Korea more than a year and a half. I still can’t speak but I can assure you that whatever I understand when a Korean person talks to me, it is because of you. Good luck to you all.
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us !
안녕하세요~~
Thank you so much for your lesson, I will try my best to learn Korean <3
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us !
Thank you very much for this free education of Korean Language
It’s really really help me to understand a bit of Korean and make me curious for more lesson
감사합니다 선생님
Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. 감사합니다:) Happy studying!
Just a brilliant introduction to the Korean language~
I’ve recommended it to so many people.
It’s some of the most quality content out there 🙂
Omg I love it
But I use the APP as well
Super easy to follow and learn from! Also very fun to listen to (: Everything is explained so well and the pdfs that are attached are super helpful for further review!!
Question:
I am interested in getting a beginner Korean learning book. What would you reccomend- there are so many options??!
Once you get used to reading hangeul, i would get the easy korean reading for beginners 🙂
Otherwise you can get the grammar textbook depending on what stage you are at and study with that.
I hope this helped hahah anyways, have fun learning <3