By the end
What you'll build
- Use subject honorifics and humble forms, and know which is which
- Recognise the special honorific vocabulary — 드시다, 계시다, 주무시다, 말씀
- Count anything using the right counter word
- Join clauses with the main verb connectives
- Decode Sino-Korean vocabulary and use it to guess unfamiliar words
- Read authentic Korean — news, contracts, job postings, notices and recipes
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 16 lessons
- 01
The Honorific System
6 lessons- Two Axes, Not One
- Raising and Loweringfill blank
- Listening: Honorifics in Uselistening lab
- Counters — You Cannot Count Without Them
- Counting and Rootsfill blank
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Joining Clauses
4 lessons- The Verb Connectives
- Joining Clausessentence builder
- Which Connective?fill blank
- Listening: Layered Speechlistening lab
- 03
Reading Real Korean
6 lessons- How to Read Korean Without Translating
- Reading: A News Itemlistening lab
- Reading: A Lease and a Job Postinglistening lab
- Reading: A Notice and a Recipelistening lab
- Flashcards: The Grammar Coreflashcard sr
- + 1 more lesson
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
16 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.