Conclude your beginners knowledge of Korean with part 3 of our enjoyable and interactive beginners course. Gain confidence and expand your grammar and vocabulary.
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- Duration: 10 weeks
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- Fees: £259 (no VAT)
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Korean Beginners Part 3 Course overview
Our third and final beginners module, part 3, will develop your conversational skills to include expressing feelings and describing travel experiences. You’ll be introduced to the irregular verbs ㅂand ㄷ and build knowledge of Korean adjectives.
Each week you’ll participate in a range of activities and exercises to develop your understanding of Korean language and popular culture.
Who is it for?
Some experience of learning Korean is needed to enrol onto part 3 (roughly 40 hours of formal study). It is perfect if you have completed part 2 of the beginners course or equivalent. See the eligibility section for more details.
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Timetable
This course takes place one evening a week at 18:30 for 10 weeks.
Benefits
- Complete your beginners knowledge in just 10 weeks
- Delivered by qualified Korean tutors
- Interactive and intuitive teaching methods.
What will I learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- talk about the weather and seasons
- describe the weather in your hometown
- make suggestions about leisure activities
- express feelings
- talk about travel experiences.
Grammar
- adjectives
- connective ending for “but’”지만
- ㅂirregular verb
- formal style of verb 습니다
- suggestions with 을까요?
- exclamations with 네요
- ㄷirregular verb.
Assessment and certificates
You will be awarded an official City, University of London certificate on completion of the course if you attend over 70 per cent of the classes. The course is not formally accredited.
Teaching
Classroom activities during this evening course will include:
- pair, group work and role-play
- classroom discussion
- pronunciation and intonation
- grammar in context.
Weekly homework will be set to help you practise and consolidate what you have learned in class.
Eligibility
If you are looking to join this course, you should have already studied for around 40 hours.
This course is the right level for you if you can:
- describe and talk about places
- ask and answer questions about destinations and location
- tell the dates and days of the week
- talk about weekly activities and past experiences
- understand a little about location words and the direction marker 에.
English requirements
You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.
Tutors
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Jaehee Cho
Jaehee Cho graduated from Korea University in Seoul with a BA in Korean language and literature education in 1987. She went on to study for an M.A. in Phonetics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1997. Her interest is in learning and teaching languages, especially the sound of languages and how to teach a language more effectively using both structural and communicative approach. Jaehee has more than 25 years of experience in teaching Korean.
She wrote some books ‘Korean Listening Skills’ for Beginners and Intermediate learners. Currently she is also teaching Korean at King’s College London and FCO Language Centre.
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Hannah Giles
Hannah Giles has been teaching Korean for over 20 years. She started teaching Korean and Linguistics in 1999 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
She has also been teaching British diplomats at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 2005 and worked as a principal examiner for IGCSE First Language Korean until 2021. She also serves as Secretary for the British Korean Society.
Hannah read Linguistics at SOAS and graduated with BA First Class Honours. She was awarded a scholarship by SOAS to continue her PhD in Linguistics until 2004.
She specialises in Korean language and culture training, applying linguistic theories to practical language teaching, as well as designing Korean courses, exams and setting course syllabi.
