OpenHangul

1-Year Core Course

A weekly plan for someone seeing Hangeul for the first time to learn Korean alone over one year (52 weeks). 1-2 lessons a week, 20-30 minutes a day, review weeks included.

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1-Year Core Course Available now

1-2 lessons a week, 20-30 minutes a day. A core course designed so that someone seeing Hangeul for the first time can reach TOPIK Level 5 expressions a year later.

Crash course Coming soon

A short course for those heading to travel, study abroad or a job, to learn only the essentials in a short time (coming soon)

Advanced course Coming soon

An advanced reading, writing and discussion course for those who have finished the 1-year course (coming soon)

Month 1

Learning the Hangeul letters

You can read and write all the vowels and consonants.

  1. Week 1
  2. Week 2
  3. Week 3
  4. Week 4
Month 2

Batchim and pronunciation

Learn batchim and sound changes so you can read aloud even words you see for the first time.

  1. Week 5
  2. Week 6
  3. Week 7
  4. Week 8
Month 3

First conversations

Greet people, introduce yourself and build simple sentences.

  1. Week 9
  2. Week 10
  3. Week 11
  4. Week 12
  5. Week 13
    Review week: redo the quizzes from the past three months and reread the lessons for the questions you missed. Try writing a short diary entry using the words you have learned.

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Month 4

Numbers, time & places

Talk about numbers and time, and about what you did yesterday and will do tomorrow.

  1. Week 14
  2. Week 15
  3. Week 16
  4. Week 17
Month 5

Living in Korea

Speak the words you need at restaurants, shops and on transportation, and make polite requests.

  1. Week 18
  2. Week 19
  3. Week 20
  4. Week 21
Month 6

Wrapping up beginner

Understand family terms and honorific speech, and get ready to take on TOPIK I.

  1. Week 22
  2. Week 23
  3. Week 24
  4. Week 25
  5. Week 26
    Review week: redo the quizzes from the past three months and reread the lessons for the questions you missed. Try writing a short diary entry using the words you have learned.
Month 7

Reasons and conditions

Connect reasons, background and conditions, and describe nouns.

  1. Week 27
  2. Week 28
  3. Week 29
  4. Week 30
Month 8

Intention and conjecture

Talk about plans, obligations and guesses, and report what others said.

  1. Week 31
  2. Week 32
  3. Week 33
  4. Week 34

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Month 9

Honorifics and wrapping up intermediate

Understand the honorific system and prepare for TOPIK II.

  1. Week 35
  2. Week 36
  3. Week 37
  4. Week 38
  5. Week 39
    Review week: redo the quizzes from the past three months and reread the lessons for the questions you missed. Try writing a short diary entry using the words you have learned.
Month 10

Korean in writing and the news

Learn written style and Sino-Korean words so you can understand articles and presentations.

  1. Week 40
  2. Week 41
  3. Week 42
  4. Week 43
Month 11

Proverbs and subtle endings

Speak with depth using proverbs, four-character idioms and the nuance of sentence endings.

  1. Week 44
  2. Week 45
  3. Week 46
  4. Week 47
Month 12

Like a native speaker

Korean in dialects, dramas and the workplace: step into real life in Korea.

  1. Week 48
  2. Week 49
  3. Week 50
  4. Week 51
  5. Week 52
    Review week: redo the quizzes from the past three months and reread the lessons for the questions you missed. Try writing a short diary entry using the words you have learned.

52 weeks in total