Lesson
Contents
Introduction
- Lesson 1: Introduction
Hangul
- Lesson 2: Hangul 1/5
- Lesson 3: Hangul 2/5
- Lesson 4: Hangul 3/5
- Lesson 5: Hangul 4/5
- Lesson 6: Hangul 5/5
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to read (but not understand) any Korean text.
Verbs & Basic Endings
Korean is a language where verbs reign supreme. We're going to master them by seeing them in their native form. We're also going to learn some of the basic sentence patterns, and get familiar with Glue.
At the end of this section, you should be able to survive Korea.
- Lesson 7: Basic Verbs & Dictionary Form
- Lesson 8: Polite, formal ending 합니다
- Lesson 9: Past Tense
- Lesson 10: 하고 (and), 하면 (if/when), 하지만 (but)
- Lesson 11: Impolite, informal ending 해, common endings 지, 네, 나, 니
- Lesson 12: Polite, informal ending 해요
- Lesson 13: Present progressive & Future tenses
Nouns and Markers
The markers in Korean are not hard. We can run through them all and not cloud the mind of the student. Might as well tackle them all when we have a few basic sentence patterns mastered.
By the end of this, you should be able to express the most basic thoughts, and you should almost be able to live comfortably in Korea.
- Lesson 14: Basic Nouns and 이다
- Lesson 15: Topic Marker
- Lesson 16: Subject Marker
- Lesson 17: Object Marker
- Lesson 18: 3rd Marker
- Lesson 19: Also Marker
- Lesson 20: Miscellaneous Markers I
- Lesson 21: Miscellaneous Markers II
Adjective Phrases
I feel like you simply can't begin to understand Korean without mastering Adjective Phrases. That's why I introduce them so early.
Also, many sentence patterns are based off of the adjective phrases, so knowing them makes them much easier to learn.
By the end of this section, you are going to see Korean open up a whole world of possibilities. Your communication skills should dramatically improve, and you should be learning new things just through conversation.
- : Simple "True" Adjectives
- : Adjective Verb Endings
- : Action Verb Endings
- : How things bind together
- : Getting word order right
- : Multiple Adjective Phrases
- : When the Noun being modified is not the subject
- : Using 것
Gerunds and Adverbs
- : Two Ways to Form Gerunds
- : Basic Adverbs
- : Two Ways to Form Adverbs
Quotes
- : "Book" Form
- : Two Ways of Quoting
More Endings
More Patterns
- : A whole bunch of common idioms go here.
- : Must / must not
- : Permission
- : Possibilities
Hanja
- : History Lesson
- : What you Need to Know to Know a Hanja
- : Picking up Hanja without learning the pictures
- : How to Memorize Hanja
- : List of Hanja to Memorize
Vocabulary Building
- : How to Build Vocabulary
- : How to Build Sentence Patterns
- : Learning 속담
- : 사자소학
