Target level
Low beginners
What can you achieve through this course?
- Practice speaking while listening and repeating after Kyung-hwa
- Learn 20 useful phrases with accurate pronunciation
Sample lesson
Lecturers
Course language
Korean, English
What can you find inside the course?
- 20 lessons
- Lesson notes containing extra example sentences along with English translation, and explanations about grammar points and differences in usages from similar Korean expressions
Table of contents
- ์๋ . / ์๋ ํ์ธ์. Hello.
- ์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. / ์๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์. Bye.
- ์๊ณ ํ์ธ์. / ์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. Keep up the good work.
- ๋ญ ํด? / ๋ญ ํ์ธ์? What are you doing?
- ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํ. / ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํ์. I'm hungry.
- ๋ญ ๋จน์๊น? / ๋ญ ๋จน์๊น์? What should we eat?
- ์ ๋จน๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Thank you for the meal.
- ์ ๋จน์์ต๋๋ค. Thank you for the meal.
- ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์? Hello. (on the phone)
- ์ง์ง? / ์ง์ง์? Really?
- ๋น์ฐํ์ง. / ๋น์ฐํ์ฃ . Of course.
- ๋๋ฐ! Awesome! / Oh, my god!
- ๋ฏธ์ํด. / ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. I'm sorry.
- ์๊ฐ ์์ด? / ์๊ฐ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ผ์ธ์? Do you have time?
- ์ผ๋ง์์? How much is it?
- ์ ๊ธฐ์! Hey! Excuse me!
- ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. This one, please.
- ์ค๋ ๋ ์จ ์ง์ง ์ข๋ค. / ์ค๋ ๋ ์จ ์ง์ง ์ข๋ค์. The weather is really good, today.
- ์ข์! / ์ข์์! Good! Cool!
- ๋ด์ผ ๋ด. / ๋ด์ผ ๋ดฌ์. I will see you tomorrow.

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Amazing! Step by step! Speaking aloud! Congratulations TTMIK team!
Thank you!
This was fun! i liked how it was broken down into small chunks. It made learning feel easy and complemented well to other courses ๐
Thank you!!
You are welcome! Enjoy studying Korean with us. ๐
I fully understood this course because it is simple. How I wish learning Korean is simple like this course ๐
That’s amazing!
๐ Thank you for studying Korean with us.
I attended language courses in Korea but they didnโt teach us quite a lot of these essential words and phrases, so thank you so much! This is really helpful and handy! Iโve got a question though, can ์๊ณ ํ์ธ์ be used when leaving a convenience store or itโs better to use something else as a goodbye?
Thank you for your nice words!
Your example is a perfect occasion where you can use ์๊ณ ํ์ธ์. It is fine to say that. ๐
Thankyou for this very practical course. It was very helpful and it reinforced many of the phrases I learned in the Essential Level 1 course.
Just one thing. Many of the lessons had this underneath
“You can watch the full video where all the phrases are introduced by clicking on the link here: https://talktomeinkorean.com/pages/20essentialphrases ”
However the link leads to page not found. Where will I be able to find this video? Thankyou
The full video is on YouTube.
Could you send the video you referred to? ๐ Thank you for studying with us!
No worries. For example, at the end of the text in lessons 8 through to lesson 20 it says:
“You can watch the full video where all the phrases are introduced by clicking on the link here: https://talktomeinkorean.com/pages/20essentialphrases ”
But when I click on the link there isn’t a full video where all the phrases are introduced. Instead, it says:
“This road is blocked. Our search bar below will help you find the way!”
This is a great course, after doing level 1 i was worried i wasn’t retaining anything but this course affirmed that i am learning. Thank you!!
Many thanks ๐ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ณต๋ถ ํ์ดํ !
Great course, I really liked that they presented both the casual and formal versions of phrases since beginners need to be aware of the differences and might not know how to alter the formality level themselves yet. I also appreciate the short videos that presented visuals and listen and repeat exercises. Great course for low beginners.
Thank you so much for your comment ! Hope you continue to enjoy learning Korean with us ๐
Can you pls tell me how to pronounce What are you eating? And what are you drinking? In Korean..
Iโm just a fellow student, but I think I can help you.
What are you eating? – ๋ญ ๋จน์ด์?
What are you drinking? – ๋ญ ๋ง์ ์?
Thank you for the kind help! ๐