Detailed Roadmap

As you learn grammar, you also memorize new words, about 5 a day. The mix of words is always about 50-50 verbs to nouns.

• Learn Hangul
  • Basic consonants: ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅎ
  • Basic vowels: ㅏㅓㅗㅜㅡㅣ
  • Words that use basic consonant/vowel combinations
  • 받침 (no combinations)
  • Aspirated consonants: ㅊㅋㅌㅍ
  • Doubled consonants: ㄲㄸㅃㅆㅉ
  • More words
  • Combining consonants
  • Full story on 받침
• Basic Verb Forms
  • -어 glue
  • -어 final ending
  • -어요 final ending
  • -ㅂ니다 final ending
  • Basic sentence structure: noun-verb
• Postpositions and articles
  • Topic and Subject markers 는, 이
  • Object marker 를
  • 에, 에서, 에게, 에게서
  • 으로
• Levels of speech and word choice
• Time tenses
  • Past: -었다
  • Future: -겠다, -을것이다
• Basic Conjunctions
  • -어서
  • -고
  • -면 (if, when)
  • -면서
• -야
  • -야 하다
  • -야 되다
  • -야 좋다
• "Book" Form and quoting
  • -(ㄴ)다
  • -(ㄴ)다(고) (say/do verb)
  • 이라(고)
• V + Glue + V Forms
  • -어 주다
  • -어 드리다
  • -어 가다
  • -어 오다
  • -어 버리다
  • -어 먹다
• Adjective form