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Lessons by level

A list of all lessons across six levels: the story of Hangeul, first steps in Hangeul, beginner (TOPIK I), intermediate and advanced (TOPIK II), and native-speaker expressions.

Level 0

The Story of Hangul

Why King Sejong created Hangul, how its letters were designed, and how it became the alphabet of Korea today.
  1. 1 Before Hangul: Writing Korean with Chinese Characters 🎬 Week 9
  2. 2 King Sejong and the Creation of Hunminjeongeum 🎬 Week 1
  3. 3 How the Consonants Were Designed 🎬 Week 5
  4. 4 How the Vowels Were Designed: Heaven, Earth and Human 🎬 Week 6
  5. 5 The Haerye Edition and UNESCO Memory of the World Week 23
  6. 6 Hangul Through the Centuries Week 37
  7. 7 Hangul Today: Spelling, Hangul Day and the Digital Age Week 51
Level 1· Pre-TOPIK

Hangul First Steps

Read and write every Korean letter, build syllable blocks, and pronounce words the way Koreans really say them.
  1. 1 How Hangul Works: Letters and Syllable Blocks 🎬 Week 1
  2. 2 Basic Vowels I: ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅣ 🎬 Week 1
  3. 3 Basic Vowels II: ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ 🎬 Week 2
  4. 4 Basic Consonants I: ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ 🎬 Week 2
  5. 5 Basic Consonants II: ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅎ 🎬 Week 3
  6. 6 Aspirated Consonants: ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ 🎬 Week 3
  7. 7 Tense Consonants: ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ 🎬 Week 4
  8. 8 Compound Vowels I: ㅐ ㅔ ㅒ ㅖ 🎬 Week 5
  9. 9 Compound Vowels II: ㅘ ㅙ ㅚ ㅝ ㅞ ㅟ ㅢ 🎬 Week 5
  10. 10 Final Consonants (Batchim): The 7 Final Sounds 🎬 Week 6
  11. 11 Double Final Consonants 🎬 Week 6
  12. 12 Linking Sounds: When Batchim Moves Over 🎬 Week 7
  13. 13 Sound Changes I: Nasalization and ㄹ Assimilation 🎬 Week 7
  14. 14 Sound Changes II: Tensing, Aspiration, Palatalization and Silent ㅎ 🎬 Week 8
  15. 15 Reading Practice: Signs, Menus and Names 🎬 Week 8
  16. 16 Typing Korean on a Keyboard and Phone 🎬 Week 4

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Level 2· TOPIK I (1–2)

Beginner Korean

Greetings, numbers, polite present/past/future, particles and the everyday phrases you need to live and travel in Korea.
  1. 1 Hello, Thank You, Sorry: Essential Greetings 🎬 Week 9
  2. 2 Introducing Yourself: N이에요/예요 🎬 Week 10
  3. 3 This, That, That Over There: 이/그/저 🎬 Week 10
  4. 4 Topic and Subject Particles: 은/는 and 이/가 🎬 Week 11
  5. 5 The Object Particle 을/를 and 하다 Verbs Week 11
  6. 6 The Polite Present Tense: -아요/어요 Week 12
  7. 7 Native Korean Numbers and Counters Week 14
  8. 8 Sino-Korean Numbers: Money, Dates and Phone Numbers Week 14
  9. 9 Telling Time, Days and Dates Week 15
  10. 10 There Is / There Isn’t: 있어요, 없어요 and Locations Week 15
  11. 11 Going Places and Doing Things There: 에 and 에서 Week 16
  12. 12 The Past Tense: -았어요/었어요 Week 16
  13. 13 The Future: -(으)ㄹ 거예요 Week 17
  14. 14 Saying No: 안, 못 and -지 않아요 Week 18
  15. 15 I Want to…: -고 싶어요 Week 18
  16. 16 Polite Requests: -(으)세요 and -아/어 주세요 Week 19
  17. 17 And, But, So: 그리고, 그런데, -고, -지만 Week 19
  18. 18 At a Restaurant and Café Week 20
  19. 19 Shopping: How Much Is It? Week 20
  20. 20 Getting Around: Subway, Bus and Taxi Week 21
  21. 21 Family Members and How Koreans Address Them Week 22
  22. 22 Can and Can’t: -(으)ㄹ 수 있어요/없어요 Week 22
  23. 23 Respect in Korean: Polite and Honorific Speech Week 23
  24. 24 TOPIK I: What It Is and How to Prepare Week 25
Level 3· TOPIK II (3–4)

Intermediate Korean

Connect ideas with reasons, conditions and contrasts, describe things with modifiers, and master the honorific system.
  1. 1 Giving Reasons: -아서/어서 vs -(으)니까 Week 27
  2. 2 Setting the Scene: -는데/-(으)ㄴ데 Week 27
  3. 3 If and When: -(으)면 Week 28
  4. 4 Describing Nouns: -는, -(으)ㄴ, -(으)ㄹ Week 28
  5. 5 Have You Ever…?: -아/어 본 적이 있어요 Week 29
  6. 6 Actions in Progress and States: -고 있어요, -아/어 있어요 Week 30
  7. 7 Purpose and Intention: -(으)러 and -(으)려고 Week 31
  8. 8 Must, May and Must Not: -아/어야 해요, -아/어도 돼요, -(으)면 안 돼요 Week 31
  9. 9 Guessing and Seeming: -(으)ㄹ 것 같아요, -나 봐요 Week 32
  10. 10 Reported Speech: -다고 했어요 Week 32
  11. 11 Passive Verbs: -이/히/리/기- Week 35
  12. 12 Making Someone Do Something: Causative Verbs Week 35
  13. 13 The Honorific System: -(으)시-, 께서, 드리다, 말씀 Week 36
  14. 14 The Six Speech Levels and When to Use Them Week 36
  15. 15 Before, After, While, As Soon As Week 37
  16. 16 TOPIK II: Reading and Writing Strategies Week 38

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Level 4· TOPIK II (5–6)

Advanced Korean

Written and formal style, news language, Sino-Korean roots, proverbs and four-character idioms, subtle sentence endings.
  1. 1 Written Style: -다/-는다 and -(으)며 Week 40
  2. 2 Understanding Korean News Week 40
  3. 3 Presentations and Formal Speeches Week 41
  4. 4 Sino-Korean Roots: Learn One, Know Ten Week 41
  5. 5 Hanja Basics for Korean Learners Week 42
  6. 6 Korean Proverbs (속담) Week 44
  7. 7 Four-Character Idioms (사자성어) Week 44
  8. 8 Subtle Endings: -거든요, -잖아요, -더라고요, -네요 Week 45
  9. 9 Academic and Essay Writing Week 45
  10. 10 Regional Dialects of Korea Week 48
Level 5

Speak Like a Native

Reactions, casual speech, texting, slang abbreviations, sound-symbolic words and the social rules behind how Koreans talk.
  1. 1 Natural Reactions and Back-Channel Words Week 24
  2. 2 Talking Casually with Friends (반말) Week 33
  3. 3 Texting Like a Korean: ㅋㅋ, ㅎㅎ and Emoticons Week 34
  4. 4 Popular Abbreviations and New Words Week 46
  5. 5 Sound and Mimetic Words Week 47
  6. 6 Phrases You Hear in K-Dramas Week 49
  7. 7 Age, Titles and Address: 언니, 오빠, 형, 누나, 선배 Week 43
  8. 8 Food, Table Manners and the Words of Jeong (정) Week 24
  9. 9 Korean at Work Week 50