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

This course is exclusively available to subscribers.

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Reviews

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  3. Juli,

    Is anything that can specifically help me with tenses? Like past and present and future Iโ€™m still a bit confused on it! Iโ€™m on lesson 22 right now~ so maybe recommend a book or something or a video link explaining? Anything is fine!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us! Unfortunately, we don’t have the grammar books like English. Our grammar books help you to broad grammar levels step by step instead of just focusing on tenses. However, you can still learn tenses through our grammar books!:)

  4. AlphaGamers !,

    Hey, i am doing lesson 7 rn.
    But i donโ€™t get this part:

    ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฑ…์ด์—์š”. [i-geo chae-gi-e-yo.] = This is a book.

    In lesson 6 you say the definition is : ์ด๊ฑฐ = this, this one
    But i am not sure why you use ๊ฑฐ( in the sentence above)

    Because you can only use ์ด for this.

    • AlphaGamers !,

      Thanks i get it now ๐Ÿ˜€

    • Oliver,

      The direct translation is “This THING(๊ฐ€) is a book.”

      It is used to specify what the subject is you’re talking about. If you say “this book is good” – ์ด ์ฑ… ์ข‹์•„์š” – then you obviously don’t need it because you’re using “book” as the proper subject.

    • Michael Jeff Achumbre,

      Hi, as what i’ve understood ๊ฑฐ is “thing” so when you say ์ด๊ฑฐ is simply “this thing” or “this one”. Same goes for ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ “that thing” or “that one” and ์ €๊ฑฐ “that thing (over there)” or “that one (over there)”. Hope that helps. ๐Ÿ˜

    • Shrimi Verma,

      ์ด is used for sentences like โ€œthis coffee is deliciousโ€. Here, ์ด is used as a modifier and NOT as a pronoun.
      ์ด๊ฑฐ is used to point at an object, and is used in sentences like โ€œthis is coffeeโ€. Therefore, ์ด๊ฑฐ is used as a pronoun.

      • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

        Thank you for helping each other ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

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  9. Darren Odibo,

    ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

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    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

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  13. link,

    do the workbooks also include solutions for the exercises?
    and thank you so much for these lessons here!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us. If you purchase workbooks, you can practice and test your Korean because it’s based on each level. However, if you are looking for the more explanations about the exercises from the online lessons, it is not included. Hope this helps! If you have more questions, please email us.

      • Rochi DiBello,

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    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

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  17. Tania Elena Esteban,

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    ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๋“ค ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!!!
    I just finished Level 1 and was able to understand the whole dialog ๐Ÿ˜€
    ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ •๋ง ํ–‰๋ถํ•ด์š”!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

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    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us! ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ ํ™”์ดํŒ… ๐Ÿ™‚

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