"Take Your First Step into Korean Learning!"
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. / ์๋
ํ์ธ์. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
Lesson 2. Yes. No. What? / ๋ค. ์๋์. ๋ค?
Lesson 3. Good-bye. See you. / ์๋
ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์. ์๋
ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. ์๋
.
Lesson 4. Iโm sorry. Excuse me. / ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ์.
Lesson 5. Itโs me. What is it? / ์ ์์. ๋ญ์์?
Lesson 6. What is this? This is โฆ / ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์์? ์ด๊ฑฐโฆ
Lesson 7. This, That, It / ์ด, ๊ทธ, ์
Lesson 8. Itโs NOT me. / ์๋์์.
Lesson 9. Particles for Topic and Subject / ์, ๋, ์ด, ๊ฐ
Lesson 10. have, donโt have, there is, there isnโt / ์์ด์, ์์ด์
Lesson 11. Please give me. / ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Lesson 12. Itโs delicious. Thank you for the food. / ๋ง์์ด์. ์ ๋จน๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋จน์์ต๋๋ค.
Lesson 13. I want to โฆ / -๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
Lesson 14. What do you want to do? / ๋ญ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์?
Lesson 15. Sino-Korean Numbers / ์ผ, ์ด, ์ผ, ์ฌ
Lesson 16. Basic Present Tense / -์์, -์ด์, -์ฌ์
Lesson 17. Past Tense / -์/์/์์ด์ (ํ์ด์)
Lesson 18. Particles for Location / ์, ์์
Lesson 19. When / ์ธ์
Lesson 20. Native Korean numbers / ํ๋, ๋, ์
, ๋ท
Lesson 21. Negative Sentences / ์, -์ง ์๋ค
Lesson 22. ํ๋ค verbs
Lesson 23. Who? / ๋๊ตฌ?
Lesson 24. Why? How? / ์? ์ด๋ป๊ฒ?
Lesson 25. From A To B, From C Until D / -์์/๋ถํฐ -๊น์ง
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Why you'll LOVE our Essential Korean Curriculum
All Levels Covered Short and Digestible Lessons Fun Story-based Reviews Review Quizzes and Interactive Audio Lessons
By simply following our curriculum that covers 10 levels, you can take your Korean skills from absolute beginner all the way up to advanced.
Each lesson is bite-sized and easy to understand, as it focuses on one grammar point at a time and provides many example sentences.
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.
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Hi Talk To Me In Korean.I am having trouble understanding when to use -(์ด)๋ or -ํ๊ณ with ๊ฐ๋ค.Thank you for teaching everyone Korean and I really appreciate it! ๐
level 3 lesson 9 covers this. You can use -(์ด)๋ and -ํ๊ณ interchangeably. You simply use ๊ฐ์์ after nouns to say they are the same, and ๋ or ํ๊ณ connects the two nouns, for example ์ด์ฑ ์ ๋ ๊ทธ์ฑ ๊ฐ์์ is how you would say This book and that book are the same. When using verbs, you must change them into their noun form, level 3 lesson 9 covers how to do that.
Hope this helped!
Hello everyone!! I just Made a group chat in kakao for everyone that wants to practice korean. https://open.kakao.com/o/gXGlV8Uc this Is the link. AND the group Is called “ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ง๊ธฐ ์ฐ์ต”
Hi there! I tried to join the group but got denied. Any solution for this. Appreciate your reply. Thank you
If anyone wants to practice Korean, happen to be in touch via K-talk. Greetings from The Netherlands!
Hey I’m in search for someone to practice with someone wanna practice together?? ^^
Im also in NL! Shall we connect via kakao?
I love the level review dialogue hahaha!
I would like to practice with everyone. How can I join you guys?
I would love to practice too! How can I contact you?
can we practice speaking? i will ad your kakaotalk!
Hi! I’m looking for a study or practice partner. Do you have kakaotalk?
My Kakaotalk ID is Odile16, feel free to add me!
ok
i would love to practice too
์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ์๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? I have been reviewing my TTMIK Books and I try to use my workbook to review, but I can’t find the link for the Workbook MP3 audio. Is that is still available. I have all your books and I have also a Premier Pass. ์๋ ค ์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์์. :))
I’m note from TTMIK but if you search “talktomeinkorean.com/audio” you Will funda them ๐
Hi TTMIK i have some question regarding level 3 lesson 14
1. does ๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ mean ‘eating’ or ‘the thing you eat’?
2. what’s the difference between ๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ and ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ?
Thank you in advance
It means โthe act of eatingโ
Ex. ๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ ์ข์ํด์
I like eating
(Lit. I like to do the act of eating )
๊ทธ ๊ฐ์๋ ์ฌ์ง ์ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
I would like to take a photo with that singer
(Lit. If i could do the action of taking a photo with that singer, it would be nice)
This is just an abbreviated form ๐
๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ = ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ
๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ = ๋จน๋ ๊ฑธ
๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ = ๋จน๋ ๊ฑด
๋จน๋ ๊ฑฐ mean ‘eating’ as well as ‘the thing you eat’ – context is crucial in these types of situations. I also highly recommend reading about the nuances between ~๊ธฐ and ~๋ ๊ฒ because they aren’t always interchangeable!
ํ์ดํ !
are you from poland?
means*
Also, I’m happy that you guys offer a level test. I’ve been learning Korean for years now and because it’s mostly been self-teaching I never knew what level I was. I knew I wasn’t completely beginner but I couldn’t confidently say intermediate but in-between sounds about right. I feel better knowing this.
Could I join the kakao group too? I would like to practice as well!
i’m in a discord group, there are many people and friends there who are also learning Korean and the teacher is korean
Can I join the discord group. I would like to practice my skills with other people.
Has someone made a Korean group chat? I’d love to join one if there is one
i’m in a discord group, there are many people and friends there who are also learning Korean and the teacher is korean
same! Im a beginner and would love to throw myself into situations to really use/practice korean before i move over there!
Let’s practice together.
now I just need someone to speak in Korean with lol.
same! or else we wont be able to develop kkkk
I do want to practice korean as i practiced for almost 1 and half year and unfortunately got no one to practice …so want to practice ? Can msg me n kakao as my id is Alexstand ^^
can i add you ok kakao..need someone to practice with
ok
yay so fun! I did have a hard time understanding the dialogue towards the end though when they started quarreling lol.
Thanks TTMIK!!! I just finished level 3 today!! For me the hardest thing are the verb irregularities, how do you manage to remember them all and consolidate? It is really hard…
One day one word and then practice makes perfect
hi! um, I have a question about lesson 24… does the ending -์ด/์ฌ/์๋ change the verbs with ๋ฅด in it too? because in the workbook there is a sentence with that as the prompt in the parenthesis and the verb was changed in the answer key but -์ด/์ฌ/์๋ was not mentioned as one of the 3 endings in the textbook and audio… thanks! ๐
Wow that was a lot of information to digest ๐ But understand the script but still suck at grammar as always hahah ;D
I just don’t know how to thank you enough. I finished level three today and as I was reviewing, I followed your instructions of listening first without reading the PDF and I’m telling you I understood 80% of the dialogue. I am so happy. To anyone reading this, do not give up and always remember that HARD WORK PAYS OFF.
just finished level 2 and its 6.50 am right now, gonna dive into this later today and seeing your comment gives me motivation to keep going lmao, hopefully it pays off im so keen. goodluck on further studying ๐
Hello i’m oumaima . I’m sorry but can you send me please the level 2 pdfs in whatsapp cz i can’t find them . Here’s my phone number 0604972864 . Thank you so much . I hope i didn’t disturb you.
can we learn together? my insta is @scenerries
or in telegram? my id is same with my insta
If someone wants to practice Korean with me… Feel free to add me on kakao talk
My ID : Magicshop13
I would like to practice with you guys ๐
Hello i’m oumaima . I’m sorry but can you send me please the level 2 pdfs in whatsapp cz i can’t find them . Here’s my phone number 0604972864 . Thank you so much . I hope i didn’t disturb you. And i would like to practice with you for sure
me too ! my ID is andila ๐
hello. I sent you a message on Kakaotalk. :))
Do you use Kakako talk??
I need people to practice what I have learnt…. ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณต๋ถํฉ์๋ค…
My id is sharmistha1991
Anybody willing.. Please. ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ
Do you use Telegram??
do you guys have a telegram group chat? if so i’d love to be added my user is @icyyice
I’m looking for friends to study too
Sorry I don’t have kakao talk but do you have Instagram?
can we learn together? my insta is @scenerries
Hi…. I’m also learing Korean,and want to practice with someone…. if you don’t mind,can we study together ?
Are you a Bengali…. if you are, then it’s easy to communicate
Omg finally a bengali here! Hello!!
can we learn together? my insta is @scenerries
or in telegram? my id is sam with my insta
Im!
I am also learning right now and would also want to practice what Iยดve learned ๐ Here is my email: [email protected]
hi i’m alle from indonesia if you want to learn korean together you can contact me by email: [email protected]
Hi, iโm also looking for practice friend, can contact me through email [email protected]
Hi I’m French and I would like to speak to someone in korean so I can even more practice myself ๐ Contact me directly on Instagram @knittelleo if you are willing to!
Love the new feature with Reviewing what you`ve learned. you can identify point which are lacking and you can put more emphasis on those when recap-ing
Is it ok if i don’t understand what they say in korean sometimes? i feel like i should understand.
๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค! ๐ Keep reviewing what you’ve learned. ^^
์๋ ํ์ธ์! I get quite confused between the -์ง๋ง form and the -์/๋/ใด๋ฐ form. What is the difference?
I tried numerous apps to learn Korean for several years without making any real progress. It’s finally happening with TTMIK. I like the structure of the lessons (but would love to have a review lesson after every few lessons. If anyone wants to practice Korean with me, I’m on Ktalk – michael922
Hi! I would be willing to practice with you! Iโll add you on Kakaotalk if thatโs ok with you ๐
Sure! I would like to study with you! If you want you can add me on kakaotalk
My ID : Magicshop13
I cannot find you id
hello!!! my name is ketki and i’m also looking for friend to practice korean with.. my id is [email protected]
Thanks for your feedback! ๐ Since October 16, review lessons have been available for everyone! If you want to learn more about this, please check out this page(https://talktomeinkorean.com/review_guide/). Happy studying! ^^
TTMIK !!!!
Thank you so much ๐๐๐.
Thanks๐
Hi! I hope everyone is doing well.
I want to practice speaking Korean to put my language learning to use. Please let me know how can I do it or if anyone has been practicing.
My kakao name is Meetu28
email โ [email protected]
Thank you in advance
Hi may I add you?
Hi ! may i add you ๋ฏธํฌ ์จ ??
Hi, could anyone be my study partner? I don’t have kakao but can contact me at [email protected]
Hi!
I am also looking for study partner! ๐
I know the basics, but I want to keep practicing speaking.
Please contact me on my kakao: plllague
Hi. Me too. Do you have Kakao or facebook. We can practice speaking each week
What’s ur kakao id??
Hi! I hope everyone is doing well.
I want to practice speaking Korean to put my language learning to use. Please let me know how can I do it or if anyone has been practicing.
My kakao name is Meetu
email – [email protected]
Thank you in advance.
hi! i would really like some people to talk with to practice! my kakao is clovette12
hola! quierrรญa un compaรฑero de estudiar del coreano! kakao es clovette12
์๋ ํ์ธ์. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ถ์ด์. ์ ์ ์นด์นด์คํก clovette12์ด์์.
Hi! I just added you. My ID is Waimon ๐
hi, can I be your study partner?
Me
Me if you want
I really enjoy your lessons and I am learning a lot in Level 3.
I am just a little confused by the concepts of โbefore ์ ์โ and โafter ๋ค์์โ when they are used with verbs in Korean: When you use โafterโ with a verb you take the Verbstem+๊ธฐ + ์ ์. However when you use โbeforeโ with a verb you take the Verbstem+์/ใด + ๋ค์์.
๊ณต๋ถํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ = before studying
๊ณต๋ถ ํ ๋ค์์ = after studying
So, with ์ ์you basically turn the verb into a noun, but with ๋ค์์you use a modifier for the verb and turn it into an adjective in the past tense. Why are they different?
Is there a general rule for when to use a korean grammatical pattern by turning a verb into a noun and when to use a grammar pattern by changing the verb with a modifier?
Thank you so much. ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
This would really help me to understand the Korean language better.
hello/i think there is not general saying whether to use verb in noun form or not.memorizing them by listening their topics from kdramas,kpops stuff is a good thing .
and in usage of BEFORE, it is literally before doing IT .. so verb form is changed into noun form . and in usage of AFTER, the thing is ,.you have done it .right? so we conjugated verb stem into past tense verb form (์)ใด ..
I still would really appreciate your help…please
I am in awe of people who persevere! I just completed Level 3…and I feel like I have all this knowledge but when it comes to writing a sentence, I have a mental block! Does anyone else have the same problem? I do understand some of the dialogues but what is helping you guys get ahead? I’m curious…TIA
me too! after every lesson i feel as if i learned a lot but when it comes to actually forming sentences, then i’m completely stuck ๐ all the grammar rules are really difficult to remember, but when i feel discouraged, i always remind myself why i’m making such an effort to learn this and how thankful we are to have such a great resource like this to learn from! fighting!!
I have the same problem as well! I can write some words but when i try to write sentences i feel like my knowledge is at level one..
Along with these lessons, you should be building your vocabulary. I started a journal. In it, I write about my day, my thoughts, and feelings, etc. I try to write as much as I can in Korean. And then whatever I have left are the vocabulary I should be learning since I use those the most often to express myself.
I’ve also put sticky notes on almost every surface and object of my house with their names, colors, etc.
After each lesson, I take the time to write out sentences using the grammar rules from that lesson while also incorporating grammar rules from past lessons, as well as whatever vocabulary I am trying to learn that week.
I also have written on my whiteboard the reason why I am learning Korean and it helps to be reminded about that.
ํ ์ ์์ด์! ํ์ดํ !
This suggestion is really helpful!!!!!!!
hi everyone .. how to upgrade the merbership here ,,,
When you finish a lesson, try to build 5 sentences with what you just learn. It will help a lot !
Can u teach me how? :<
I know this sounds bland, but practice! The more you use a language the easier and more natural itโll be to speak with it in the future! I donโt have any friends to practice speaking with, so I use my cat :p.
์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ!
I needed motivation so I made this IG account โก๏ธ @lizlearnsstuff to keep track of my progress.
I made an august study schedule with Grammar Level 3 and other TTMIK courses (vocab, reading, listening…) so, if you want to study with me or just have a chat, follow me on
IG: @lizlearnsstuff
Kakaotalk : LzzyWho1
The blog isn’t ready, but I hope I can finish it ASAP.
I would love to be in. Here’s my IG:taerags_9 and Kkt id: rags9
I would love to be in @un_vas
just followed you! My account is @waireads. Let’s keep in touch!
also, if there’s a study group, I’d love to be a part of it. My kakaotalk is Waimon
Count me in too! Mine is @hanalw, I’ll message you ๐
This is late but hi! If there’s a study group I would love to be added if that’s alright! TTMIK @ clovette12 . I also just messaged you!
i also done the same as you, i have a twitter account to keep track of my progress. @nimmi_shi that’s my account. but i will follow you on ig too. let’s help one another to improve ourselves.
I JUST FOLLOWED YOUU LETS LEARN TOGETHER
That’s cool. I’m on level 1 still.
I’d love to join too! My Kakao: AyanaKnight
Can you guys add me to any language learning groups please? ID: PurrlMoon
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Me too please! ๐๐ฟ I’ve been stuck on level 3 since May. Need to get back into my studies. Just made a kakaotalk
ID: hodiex91
IG is the same too.
Hi… I already send you a message.. Hope we can learn and practice together ๐
Kakaotalk: ์นจ_xx
Hi.. can i join? I want to practice korean together too๐
My kakaotalk id: madinagf
Thankyou hehe
ID: chiimm4
hey, is anyone interested in doing a group call on zoom or something to practice Korean speaking???
If you interested please send me a message
– i.g. lena.setareh
I have a study partner’s group chat were u can practice as you want, that’s my kakao talk ID : doniashii7
Contact me whenever you want !!
Yes! Actually, I have Skype but I’d love to start a group study on Skype or something ๐
I’m back to learning Korean again after a few years and I took the placement test. I’m supposed to be at level 5 but I wanted to review so I finished Level 1 and 2 in 2 weeks now I’m on Level 3. Thank you so much TTMIK!
Before I start the Level I listen to the last Lesson which has the 100% Korean Dialogue to test my knowledge. I must say Level 3 has the best dialogue so far. It was very fun. ๐
Thanks ! ๐ We hope you continue to find our courses helpful ! Happy studying ^^
Hello. I would like to know why some verbs and adjectives are conjugated like this, for example: ์ํ์์ด….
I saw this in a song and I was wondering why it is conjugated like this. Shouldn’t it be ์ํผ์?
***์ํ์***
I think ์๋น ์์ด is dad is coming…
And ์๋น ์ means ‘it’s hurt.’
CMIIW.
You mean ์์์…(hurt)..
Ah wait.. it’s ์ํ์์ด and ์ํ์ …
์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ ์๋, ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ด์.
According to level 3 lesson 18, ๋ฐ์ must be followed by negative verbs. I want to ask, how about the if sentences? Should ๋ฐ์ needs to be followed by negative verbs as well? Because Ive seen the sentence like this : ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฏธ ๋ง์ด ๋ถ ๊ฑฐ์์.
Thank you! ^_^
Good question ! ๐ They are homonyms. (1) ๋ฐ์ + negative conjugation -> “only” (2) ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ถ ๊ฑฐ์์-> outside, outdoors. ๋ฐ์ which means outside can be followed by positive words! ex) ๋ฐ์ ๋์ด ์์ (It’s snowing outside.) / ๋ฐ์ ์์ํ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ์ด์ (A cool breeze is blowing outside) Hope you find this helpful. ๐
Ahh I see, so ๋ฐ์ has several meaning and several ways to use it.
Thank you for the explanation. I clearly understand it now ๐
We can learning korean together~
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I have a study partner’s group chat were u can practice as you want, that’s my kakao talk ID : doniashii7
Contact me whenever you want !!
Hi i tried sending you a message in kakao talk but it didnt allow me :// I am not sure why this happened so do you mind adding me to your study partners group too?
My kakao talk id is rithujaa12