Core Grammar Level 1

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Core Grammar Level 2 (formerly Essential Course Level 2)


"Take Your First Step into Korean Learning!"

 

LevelLevel 1
TypeAudio
Duration5.5 total hours
Lessons 26
Language English & ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด

 

Main topics of the Level 1 course:

  • Basic greetings
  • How to count numbers in Korean
  • Basic grammar for forming your first Korean sentences 
  • Present and past tense
  • How to say "who", "why", and "how" in Korean 

 

Table of Contents

Average lesson length: 13 minutes

Lesson 1. Hello. Thank you. / ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Lesson 2. Yes. No. What? / ๋„ค. ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”. ๋„ค?
Lesson 3. Good-bye. See you. / ์•ˆ๋…•ํžˆ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ์•ˆ๋…•ํžˆ ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”. ์•ˆ๋…•.
Lesson 4. Iโ€™m sorry. Excuse me. / ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๊ธฐ์š”.
Lesson 5. Itโ€™s me. What is it? / ์ €์˜ˆ์š”. ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?
Lesson 6. What is this? This is โ€ฆ / ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? ์ด๊ฑฐโ€ฆ
Lesson 7. This, That, It / ์ด, ๊ทธ, ์ €
Lesson 8. Itโ€™s NOT me. / ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”.
Lesson 9. Particles for Topic and Subject / ์€, ๋Š”, ์ด, ๊ฐ€
Lesson 10. have, donโ€™t have, there is, there isnโ€™t / ์žˆ์–ด์š”, ์—†์–ด์š”
Lesson 11. Please give me. / ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Lesson 12. Itโ€™s delicious. Thank you for the food. / ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ž˜ ๋จน๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž˜ ๋จน์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Lesson 13. I want to โ€ฆ / -๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
Lesson 14. What do you want to do? / ๋ญ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”?
Lesson 15. Sino-Korean Numbers / ์ผ, ์ด, ์‚ผ, ์‚ฌ
Lesson 16. Basic Present Tense / -์•„์š”, -์–ด์š”, -์—ฌ์š”
Lesson 17. Past Tense / -์•˜/์—ˆ/์˜€์–ด์š” (ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”)
Lesson 18. Particles for Location / ์—, ์—์„œ
Lesson 19. When / ์–ธ์ œ
Lesson 20. Native Korean numbers / ํ•˜๋‚˜, ๋‘˜, ์…‹, ๋„ท
Lesson 21. Negative Sentences / ์•ˆ, -์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค
Lesson 22. ํ•˜๋‹ค verbs
Lesson 23. Who? / ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ?
Lesson 24. Why? How? / ์™œ? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ?
Lesson 25. From A To B, From C Until D / -์—์„œ/๋ถ€ํ„ฐ -๊นŒ์ง€
Review What Youโ€™ve Learned in Level 1


Why you'll LOVE our Essential Korean Curriculum

  • All Levels Covered
    By simply following our curriculum that covers 10 levels, you can take your Korean skills from absolute beginner all the way up to advanced.

  • Short and Digestible Lessons
    Each lesson is bite-sized and easy to understand, as it focuses on one grammar point at a time and provides many example sentences.

  • Fun Story-based Reviews
    You can review the entire course through a fun story! The final lesson of each course features a fun story that allows you to review all the grammar and vocabulary introduced in the course.

  • Review Quizzes and Interactive Audio Lessons
    You can test your new knowledge through review quizzes and interactive audio lessons, where our teachers ask you questions, and you can respond and check where you need to improve.


Who teaches this course?

Hyunwoo
Kyeong-eun

 

What you can find in this course:

Lesson notes


MP3 file


PDF file


Sample dialogues


Sample dialogues


Review lesson


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Reviews

  1. Tine,

    Hi, TTMIK! I personally love the new website but I think it is much better to put the conversation back at the end of each lesson so that we can discuss/exchange thoughtsย about it. Thank you so much for providing free lessons with pdf and audio. Indeed helpful. Keep it up!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      They are back now! Please check it out! ๐Ÿ˜€

      • Tine,

        ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํ™”์ดํŒ… โ™ฅ๏ธ

    • Jessica,

      I was thinking the same!

    • ,

      I agree!

  2. Dinie Yongsae Visser,

    Anyone bought the premium membership? Any reviews?

    • Song Jang Mi,

      I bought it 3 days ago. It was quite helpful. Uhm the review quiz really helps me actively think back to the info that was in the lesson. I wish there would be an exercise where you have to like make your own sentence or translate a sentence to Korean using the learnt grammar, but I think this is still helpful. The dialogues are also very helpful. It just helps me with the intonation since I’m terrible at doing that haha!

  3. bin vt,

    I just logged on to the new website 4 the first time… that wuz a surprise!

  4. Oliver,

    Something that I didn’t notice at first is how the samples now all use the same bold blocky font. I really liked it better before when it was in normal font and just parts in it were bold. Thankfully the PDFs are still in that old format.

  5. Juni James Romulo,

    i would like to comment on the quiz on level 2 lesson 4. i think she was trying to say that she wants to have a computer and a cellphone.

  6. John,

    ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ž‘ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์— ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

    • Zedrick Torres,

      ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋ž‘ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์— ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”*

  7. Nastya,

    i like this website, but it`s not really cool, that now you have to pay for everything, even for courses that were free before

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Basic members are still available to access all essential courses for free, but premium members get more benefits for studying materials like sample dialogues or quizzes after they complete each lesson. Once you become our premium member, you can access to all our lessons:D

    • Jessica,

      exactly, and the lessons are still free on YouTube btw lmao

    • Sharon Lawler,

      I also bought all the books through level 4. I hope I can access the audio for these lessons when I finish Level 2 book. So far I get the audio lessons for all Level 2. SAL

    • Tatianna Houston,

      I feel the same

  8. Sven van Schie,

    I love the new website, I’t does make me sad that the extra dialoges at the end were removed, i personally bought the books, but after finishing level 1 it was really helpful to check my progress and see if i actually learned something

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us! The last dialogue lesson came back, so hope you enjoy it:)

    • ,

      I loved those too!

  9. Jessica,

    I wish there was a way to “check” by levels done and not by each lesson done

  10. ๋งˆ์ดํด,

    ์ด ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋งŒ์— ๋ณต์Šตํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์›๋ž˜ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์„๋•Œ์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋†“์ณค๋˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋„ค์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ณต์Šตํ–ˆ์„๋”ฐ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค๋„ ๋ช‡๊ฐœ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋„ค์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๋ณต์Šต ๊ท€์ฆˆ๋“ค์€ ์ •๋ง ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ผ์š”! ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๋“ค ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      ํ†กํˆฌ๋ฏธ์ธ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ํ˜น์€ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ^^

  11. ,

    Oh noo all the old comments are gone ใ… ใ… 

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Sorry for the inconvenience, but if you have any questions, please let us know ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Oliver,

      Yea its a real shame. People helped each other so much. It was such a great community ;_;

  12. Angela Galvis,

    Hi, guys! Thank you so much for everything you’ve done so far. I never thought that I was going to be able to express myself in Korean until I found about you. You’re amazing!

    I love the new website and the new material you’re providing us, but would you mind including the dialoges at the end of the levels? They’re really helpful.

    Thanks!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us! The last dialogue lesson came back ๐Ÿ™‚ Happy studying!

    • Oliver,

      Same. And I’d love to see the comment sections back tbh. So much helpful discourse and information all gone ;_;

    • S.lboro,

      Agreed, is a shame they removed them!