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Course Contents

Follow the units in order if you are new to Korean, or jump to a chapter if you are reviewing a specific topic. Each chapter focuses on one concept and builds on the chapters before it.

Unit 0

Unit 0 focuses on teaching Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Start here if you are a beginner.

  1. The Korean Alphabet - Hangul: Learn the basic letters of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. Reading Korean is simpler than you might think.
  2. Aspirated (Strong) Consonants: Learn the strong aspirated Hangul consonants ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, and ㅊ and how they differ from plain and tense consonants.
  3. Tense (Double) Consonants: Learn the tense Hangul consonants ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, and ㅉ and how they differ from plain and aspirated consonants.
  4. Diphthongs: Complex Vowels: Covering diphthongs. Diphthongs are complex vowels that look like a combination of two vowels.
  5. Basic Korean Words: Covering the most important words to know in Korean.
  6. Further reading, pronunciation and practice: If you completed all previous chapters you now know all letters of Hangul. What's next?

Unit 1

Unit 1 teaches you the basics of creating your first Korean sentences.

  1. Sentence Structure: How sentences in Korean are structured. Subject -> Object -> Verb.
  2. How to say hello and bye: How to say hello and bye.
  3. "Something is" using 이다: How to say something is something Korean? Introducing conjugated 이다 usage

Unit 2

  1. 반말: Casual speech in Korean: How to use 반말 in Korean, using the casual speech for speaking with close friends.
  2. Formal polite speech in Korean: How to use and build the formal polite speech in Korean?
  3. Making suggestions: How to make suggestions using let's and shall we in Korean.

Unit 3

  1. Making quotes: How to quote in Korean and say you said something.
  2. Only: Saying "only" in Korean using 만 and 밖에.
  3. Becoming Something and Other Uses of 되다: How to say someone or something is becoming something in Korean using the verb 되다 and other uses of 되다.
  4. Saying "It Is Like This or That" with 이렇다, 그렇다, and 저렇다: How 이렇다, 그렇다, and 저렇다 describe something as being this way, that way, or that way over there.
  5. Toward using (으)로: How to say toward something using the particle (으)로.
  6. Using something with (으)로: Learn how to use (으)로 to express a tool, material, method, or means of transportation.
  7. Describing Verbs: How to describe verbs using nominalization.
  8. Giving a Reason: How to give a reason in Korean. Using the (으)니까, 서 and 때문 form to give a reason.
  9. Using 데 for showing contrast: How to show contrast using the 데 form and how it's different from 지만.
  10. If and when: How to say if and when in Korean using the (으)면 and 때 form.
  11. Could it be?: How to ask questions using could and would in Korean with (으)ㄹ까요.
  12. Before and after in Korean: How to say before and after in Korean? Learn how to say before and after using 전에 and 후에, 뒤에, 다음에, and -고.
  13. Or in Korean: How can you say "or" in Korean?
  14. Don't do it: Negative commands: How to tell someone in Korean to not do something, how to build negative commands.
  15. To hope or to wish for in Korean: How to say you hope or wish for something in Korean?