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.

Join now to begin your Korean learning journey!

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Reviews

  1. Melisa Restrepo Echeverry,

    Hello! I’m really enjoying to study here, thank’s for all these material.

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us!

  2. Aya Darwish,

    I can’t download the lessons.. aren’t they available anymore?!!

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Once you add the course, you can find it from your learning centre:) If you have any other questions, please let us know.

  3. Euverlyy MX,

    Hello ! First of all I would like to say thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you my korean has improved and I’m really happy ! ๐Ÿ™‚
    But I just have one problem (or maybe I do things the wrong way ?…) : I wanted to go back to korean level 1 in order to check some old lessons but it seems like it doesn’t work anymore. I can’t go back to review them…that’s too bad. What can I do ?

    Thank you in advance and Happy New Year !
    ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์ƒˆํ•ด ๋ณต ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š”!

    • Euverlyy MX,

      Thank you so much ! ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. If you completed your course, you should check your completed course box under my account. Hope this helps:)

  4. Andrew,

    Hi, guys! Just finished Level 1 and wanted to say thank you for your work. I had been learning Korean by myself before I came across your website, and even though I had already studied most of the topics covered in Level 1, it was good to review them and learn some small but interesting details. Your audios are so entertaining that they are fun to listen to for people with any level of Korean (not that mine is particularly high ?). Iโ€™m a big fan of yours! Once again, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›ก! ^_^

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us, and we will do our best! Happy New Year ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Luiza Miranda,

    Como eu faรงo pra ouvir os PDFs

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      No ablo Espaรฑol. Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. The PDF and MP3 files can be found at the bottom of each lesson description represented by PDF and MP3 icons. We do not have direct transcripts of the MP3s, but the PDFs cover the lesson materials mentioned in the audio. Hope this helps:)

  6. Yolo Yolo yo,

    Como puedo descargar los PDF??

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      No ablo Espaรฑol. Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. The PDF and MP3 files can be found at the bottom of each lesson description represented by PDF and MP3 icons. We do not have direct transcripts of the MP3s, but the PDFs cover the lesson materials mentioned in the audio. Hope this helps:)

  7. Tokki็พŽ,

    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์ €๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 9(์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด 10?)๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋‚ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด์š” ^^ ๊ณ„์† ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ์ฐฝํ•˜์ง€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
    Please correct me if there are any mistakes or if something sounds unnatural ^^

    • Judie Anne Villanueva,

      Hi Tokki, I am about to buy another set of TTMIK books but the shipping cost is just really expensive. If ever you wanna get some books, please let me know and we can share the shipping fee ?

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. I edited your sentence, and hope this helps:) ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ €๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 10๊ฐœ์›” ์ •๋„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ์–ด์š” ^^ ๊ณ„์† ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ง์„ ๋” ์œ ์ฐฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  8. koreanlearner,

    guys can you give me a solution for learning korean and palance it with school im truely confiused cant find time in these exams and school + iwant to ask you a question whats you reason for studing korean

    • Christine Liwanag,

      Hello! Since it’s Christmas break,I am studying korean again! My advice for you is to study for 30 minutes if you are busy on doing school works but if you have more time, study for 1 hr. And, if you are too busy with acads, just review vocabulary words and that’s it.

    • Pedro,

      ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. I don’t exactly have a trick when it came to balancing Korean self-study and exams/school. However when I didn’t do exams I study Korean, but when I did I just stop studying Korean completely to focus on my exams. Balancing school, exams and also Korean self-study is really hard but I recommend that you focus on your schoolwork more than the Korean.

      Somethings maybe you could do though is pick a day and study an hour every week during exams. Just revise the stuff you have learned, instead of studying new things. Which would leave more time to study for school exams.

      I study Korean because it is something that I want to use in my future. Plus I find it really interesting, the language and also the Korean culture.

      Hope this helps

  9. ,

    Level 1 Korean Grammar was really useful for me, I was able to get integrated into learning Korean. I am now on level 4 of the curriculum because level 1 was able to get me learning Korean easily. I also went over the lessons in level 1 a lot and the pdf, as well as the audio, is very useful. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค TTMIK!!!

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Happy to hear that you’ve been enjoying our learning materials. Thank you for sharing your comment:)

  10. Fer Coronado,

    What does the “Level 1 Korean Grammar” contain?? I can’t find any audio button.

    • ik' ram,

      the same for me !!!

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Please check the table of contents. Once you add the course, you can start studying Level 1 Korean Grammar:)

      • Robert Wuman,

        thank you so much for this study guide

  11. Asmaa Adel,

    Continue this hard work “fighting”

  12. Asmaa Adel,

    This website is really so helpful. Its also so organized.

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. We are glad to hear that. Thank you for studying with us!!

  13. Nana Gyanewaa Apponsah,

    TTMIK ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!
    ์ €๋Š” 22์‚ด ๊ฐ€๋‚˜์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋…์ผ์—์„œ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋…„์— 4์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ง ๊ณต๋ถ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TTMIK ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ํ• ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ: ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
    Now in english ๐Ÿ™‚ : At the beginning of this year I stared listening to K-pop and watching K-dramas, which is not something I ever thought would interest me. I then discovered Koreanenglishman and Jolly on Youtube, which introduced me to even more of the Korean culture, people and language. This made me want to understand and possibly even speak Korean. Fast foward 6 months: I’m currently midway through Level 2, I can understand quite a bit of the language and even have been able to use what I’ve learned so far to speak to the waitresses at a ๋ง›์ง‘ nearby (they were very impressed and gave our table extra ๊น€์น˜). I am really thankful for all the free resources you provide and for making the lessons super practical and easy to follow! ์„ ํ˜„์šฐ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜, ์ตœ๊ฒฝ์€ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜, TTMIK ๋งด๋ฒ„๋“ค์ด๋‹ค: ๊ฐ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. We are really happy to hear you like us! You’ve been studying Korean for almost 6 months, but your Korean skill is so amazing!! Keep studying hard with TTMIK, and you might speak Korean comfortably soon ๐Ÿ™‚

  14. Priyal Shenoy,

    First off I’ll start by saying how grateful I am for all the efforts you guys are taking for literal strangers to be able to learn Korean. I love how you guys go about it too.
    Coming to the question, I’m confused about how you pronounce “ne”.
    I’ve watched one Korean show before, and it always sounded like it was pronounced as “de” “day”. When you slowly pronounced it I did hear ne but on normal usage in a sentence it again sounded like “de”.
    I tried pronouncing it as “ne” but the “n” sound is so clear in it that it doesn’t sound authentic. I would appreciate some help. Thank you

    • Jennie,

      It is “ne”, Its the way they say the n that makes it sound like a d but im sure they understand whichever way you say it.

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      I just checked and the link works:) If you cannot open it, please visit our TTMIK facebook.

    • Priyal Shenoy,

      Thank you for replying Hwayeon Kim. Unfortunately it tells me the link might be broken or a page might have been removed when I tried to open it. Awaiting further response. Thank you

  15. Mirzohid Abdulhayev,

    Thank you for all. I’m super lazy. I have been living in Korea more than a year and a half. I still can’t speak but I can assure you that whatever I understand when a Korean person talks to me, it is because of you. Good luck to you all.

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us !

  16. Thaiyuong Nguyen,

    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”~~
    Thank you so much for your lesson, I will try my best to learn Korean <3

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. Thank you for studying with us !

  17. Eni,

    Thank you very much for this free education of Korean Language
    It’s really really help me to understand a bit of Korean and make me curious for more lesson
    ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜

    • Hwayeon Kim,

      Hi, I’m Hwayeon from TalkToMeInKorean. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:) Happy studying!

  18. Calypso McKenzie,

    Just a brilliant introduction to the Korean language~
    I’ve recommended it to so many people.
    It’s some of the most quality content out there ๐Ÿ™‚

  19. ะะฝะธั‚ะฐ ะฆะฐั€ัŒ,

    Omg I love it
    But I use the APP as well

  20. H. E.,

    Super easy to follow and learn from! Also very fun to listen to (: Everything is explained so well and the pdfs that are attached are super helpful for further review!!

    Question:
    I am interested in getting a beginner Korean learning book. What would you reccomend- there are so many options??!

    • Rosi,

      Once you get used to reading hangeul, i would get the easy korean reading for beginners ๐Ÿ™‚
      Otherwise you can get the grammar textbook depending on what stage you are at and study with that.
      I hope this helped hahah anyways, have fun learning <3