Core Grammar Level 1

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Core Grammar Level 1 (formerly Essential Course Level 1)

Target level

from upper beginners to advanced learners

What can you achieve through this course?

  • Learn to express flavors with delicate words and expressions
  • Learn to express textures with the most natural Korean words
  • Broaden your vocabulary by learning the expanded meanings of Korean expressions for flavors and how they are used in daily life
  • Learn relevant grammar points and pronunciation rules"

 

Trailer

Lecturer

Yeji Kim

Course language

English

What can you find inside the course?

  • 11 video lesson and lesson notes with more detailed explanation
  • 2 lessons for review quizzes

Table of contents

  1. ๋งต๋‹ค - to be spicy
  2. ์งœ๋‹ค - to be salty
  3. ์‹ฑ๊ฒ๋‹ค - to be bland
  4. ๋‹ฌ๋‹ค - to be sweet
  5. ์“ฐ๋‹ค - to be bitter
  6. Review Session (Lessons 1-5)
  7. ๊ณ ์†Œํ•˜๋‹ค - to be nutty + ฮฑ
  8. ๋Š๋ผํ•˜๋‹ค - to be greasy
  9. ๋‹ด๋ฐฑํ•˜๋‹ค - to be mild-tasting
  10. ๋–ซ๋‹ค - to be astringent
  11. ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๋‹ค - to be cool
  12. Review Session (Lessons 7-11)
  13. ์‹๊ฐ - Textures in Korean

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Reviews

  1. G BOCQUET,

    Hi, i started learning a year ago and arrived at the book level 3 but i realized i don’t remember how to write most of the words and i still don’t know how to make sentences…… its really frustatting, if anyone wanna help and study together, add me on kakaotalk it’s gwendobocquet

  2. Sasha,

    Successfully finished my level 1 course. I am looking forward in meeting Hyun-woo in korea when i come there!

  3. Angelica Supeรฑa,

    Never thought I’d be able to study Korean! TTMIK is a great help!!! Just finished level 1 and I learned a lot…. still more to go!

  4. Anju,

    I was just thinking why we use ์˜ˆ์š” instead of ์–ด์š” after ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ in lesson 23 of level 1?๐Ÿ˜…

    • Harmoni,

      ์˜ˆ์š” means is a verb that means “to be”, ์–ด์š” is the present tense conjugation of a verb with ending vowels that are not ใ… or ใ…—. In this case, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์˜ˆ์š” would mean “who is it”. ์–ด์š” would not be applicable in this case.
      **this is just my understanding of it someone please correct me if it’s wrong ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Tatiana J Boneu Alvarez,

    Hola, soy nueva en esto! Busco partners para estudiar y aprender juntos.
    Ig: tatiana_boneu. No tengo kakaotalk pero puedo hacerme una cuenta.

    • purple green,

      ๐Ÿ˜€ por supuesto, te agrego ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Javiera Contreras Rios,

      Holi, ayudemonos mutuamente!
      Ig: bittervoyage
      kakaotalk: magicyhongseok

      • Tatiana J Boneu Alvarez,

        No te pude encontrar en kakaotalk, but te agregue a insta. Btw mi ID: tatianab17

  6. Mariella,

    hi! let’s study together ๐Ÿ™‚ I recently downloaded kakaotalk. My ID is mariella1

    • Kim Jungmin,

      I’ve added yours. Mine is Icebear7

  7. HYT ES,

    when can we use ์ด and ์ด๊ฑฐ and the same for ๊ทธ, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ, ์ €, ์ €๊ฑฐ !??

    • linting,

      ์ด๊ฑฐ can be a subject. if you want to express a specific thing you can use “์ด+a noun” to be a subject.
      ์ด๊ฑฐ=์ด+a noun. the same goes for ๊ทธ, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์ €, ์ €๊ฑฐ

    • AlphaGamers !,

      I am a student myself aswell but if i am correctly ๊ฑฐ means “thing,item” and ์ด means “this” so if you see an item or thing wanna point to it you say ์ด๊ฑฐ(this (item/thing)). I hope i explained it well >.<

      • jihane Erraji,

        I think that ๊ฒƒ mean thing or item

  8. Maria,

    Does anyone know how to download the mp3 file?

  9. Imane Idouchache,

    Heey , I’m here if u wanna have a Korean conversation my insta xiao_fei_su

    • Hayaa,

      Hey! I requested you , my account is @holowela_priv2

      • Imane Idouchache,

        im gonna send you

  10. ,

    hello I finished my lesson 1 and I am also looking for a study buddy so that I can improve what I’ve learned follow and DM me in my IG and twitter account
    IG:Lairengacang
    twitter:Lairen_gacang

    • Shruti Kunadia,

      Hey! I finished lesson 1 too.. I can be you study buddy if you haven’t found one yet!

  11. Triple T,

    Can you please give me a tip to remember stuff better

    • Jutta,

      For memorizing words and short phrases, download “quizlet” on your smartphone.
      That helped me a lot with memorizing because you can repeat the new words in different ways.
      You need to not only recognize them when you see them but also it teaches you how to remember how to spell them.

    • Alina,

      u can download the memrise app

  12. ๅˆ˜้ƒฆๆ™Li Yen,

    I’m a beginner here, i hope someone can contact me so that we can learn new things together ๐Ÿ™‚
    kakaotalk: Ginalaurain1

    hope to interact with some people that have the same interest in me ๐Ÿ™‚ which is studying korean hehe

    • Mariella,

      Hi! I already added you. My ID is mariella1 ๐Ÿ™‚

  13. Brents,

    Hi looking for a study buddy in kakaotalk :)) ID – Brents24

    • Mariella,

      Hi! I already added you. My ID is mariella1 ๐Ÿ™‚

  14. ์žฌํ‚ค,

    Hi I’m a beginner I have a question with your example ๐Ÿ˜Š I hope I’ll be clarified

    ์žก๋‹ค [jap-tta] (Verb stem = ์žก [jap]) = to catch
    Present Tense: ์žก์•„์š” [ja-ba-yo]
    Past Tense: ์žก์•˜์–ด์š” [ja-ba-sseo-yo]

    ํŒ”๋‹ค [pal-da] (Verb stem = ํŒ” [pal]) = to sell
    Present Tense: ํŒ”์•„์š” [pa-ra-yo]
    Past Tense: ํŒ”์•˜์–ด์š” [pa-ra-sseo-yo]

    ๋†€๋‹ค [nol-da] (Verb stem = ๋†€ [nol]) = to play, to hang out
    Present Tense: ๋†€์•„์š” [no-ra-yo]
    Past Tense: ๋†€์•˜์–ด์š” [no-ra-sseo-yo]

    The rule says that if vowels end in ใ…,ใ…— add ์•„์š”. Non ใ…,ใ…— add ์–ด์š”.

    ์žก ends in ใ…‚ but it became ์žก์•„์š” instead of ์žก์–ด์š”
    Same with ํŒ”์•„์š” and ๋†€์•„์š” and their past tense as well.

    I was confused, thanks ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜…

    • Andrei,

      You’re not supposed to look for whether it ends in a vowel or a consonant. You’re supposed to find the vowel level or the last given vowel. So in your example, ์žก it would still be ์žก์•„์š” since the last vowel in it is ใ… it doesn’t matter if the word ends in a consonant. I’m sorry if my explanation seems complicated and correct me if I’m wrong.

    • Mariella,

      Hi! I recently noticed that as well ๐Ÿ™‚ the first and second rule does not necessarily apply to the last letter of the word, but rather the last vowel. So, in the word ์žก, even though it ends ใ…‚, the last vowel is ใ…, which is why ์•„์š” is added and not ์–ด์š”.

    • Patricia Magdalena,

      What we see is the last vowel, not literally the last character
      In ์žก, the last vowel is ใ…, so we add ์•„์š” and it becomes ์žก์•„์š”
      Same with the others

      ํŒ”๋‹ค: Last vowel in ํŒ” is ใ…, so we add ์•„์š” –> ํŒ”์•„์š”
      ๋†€๋‹ค: Last vowel in ๋†€ is ใ…—, so we add ์•„์š” –> ๋†€์•„์š”

      I hope this helps! ๐Ÿ˜Š

    • Khaerul Rizal,

      Omg you represent me, thanks

  15. john john,
  16. john john,

    i am a bigenner i cant talk i dont know any alphabet

    • Mariella,

      try learning hangul (the Korean alphabet) first, it’s quite necessary. There are many lessons on youtube that teaches you how to read and write their alphabet. hope this helps ๐Ÿ™‚

  17. Ivan Josh Ollero,

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

    I’m just a beginner. Looking for a study buddy. Let’s help each other our out! ๐Ÿ™‚
    My kakaotalk: IvanxOllero

    • renshii,

      I already added you my ID is renshii ๐Ÿ˜Š

  18. Wendel Araujo de Brito,

    Alguรฉm pra estudar comigo me chama no meu Instagram: @notmatter_wab ๐Ÿ™‚

  19. Songhai Ly,

    Hi everyone, I just start studying to lesson 1 /level 1 , Can you guys help me to improve?

  20. Sab Kathryn,

    ์•ˆ๋…€!
    Hii guyss if you have kakaotalk I am : Kathy , We can study together

    • sofia sanico,

      ID: sofiaxsanico

      • Mariella,

        Hi! I already added you. My ID is mariella1 ๐Ÿ™‚

      • its_chloe,

        I canโ€™t find your ID mine is chloeeee14

    • sofia sanico,

      I have kakaotalk, Let’s help each other.

  21. Wonwoo_Jungkook,

    are any of you improving? and what are good sites or methods to use to really help me learn?

    • Oliver,

      Well TTMIK is definitely your best bet. And yeah, I am improving steadily.
      My daily go to routine is:

      * listen to the audio of a new lesson without looking up the text to focus on pronounciation and listening skills(in terms of writing down what I heard)

      * do the text part of that lesson seperately after

      * usually repeat the day’s lesson in my head or apply it throughout the day

      * make flashcards, either analog or online flash cards to use

      * once a day listen to the 100% Korean dialogue to practice listening skills on my level

      I will definitely upgrade to the premium course to have access to the Iyagi sessions though, which I heard are really great.

      • TillyCat,

        Woah this is so smart I will make my routine similar,, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

    • Sab Kathryn,

      Hi , so for me what I do is I always repeat the words after the teachers and write it down so many times so I can memories them , and when I want to test my Korean speaking Skills I go to
      Google translation and start speaking ( words or sentences ) and see if he could understand or not , ahh also always talk to ur self it’s fine xD I do that and that helped me leaning other languages
      Hope I could help youu โค๏ธ ํ™”์ดํŒ… !

  22. Mahadiva Ayudya,

    Hi i’m newbie. I need a study buddy to learning together! please add me at :
    twitter : deardivy

    • Skylar Gates,

      Hi! I could help you out my twitter is
      @Skylar36296862

  23. Ola Oktodita,

    Hey i’m new here, looking for buddy to learning together. Simply add me on kakaotalk : caramelola . See ya peeps.

    • Mariella,

      Hi! I already added you. My ID is mariella1 ๐Ÿ™‚

  24. lim_ryan,

    Hello. Im done with Level 1 and currently on Level 2 Lesson 3. Im looking for a study buddy or group. Please add me on discord: polymerxvi#6169

  25. ,

    Hi! I am new here. Looking for a study buddy. I am fluent in Hindi, English, Punjabi. ๐Ÿ˜Š

    • misbah khan,

      Hi.!

      • misbah khan,

        I m also new here…we can help each other to learn korean more quickly