Required Pre-requisite: Explore Korean for Teens 1.1
Students MUST either have taken the above course OR communicate with the Instructor prior to registration in order to have an assessment done to approve them for this course. 
Please take the time to read all the class information sections!

Please be aware that this course requires students to devote daily study and practice time outside of class in order to progress well and be able to fully participate in class. There is weekly out of class workbook practice as well as assignments (oral and written) to be submitted to the instructor for evaluation. Korean is a challenging language and the goal of this course is mastery over the learned material. This course does not grade but uses progress assessment (through in-class performance AND submitted assignments) to determine eligibility to continue to the next level. Self-motivation will be necessary on the part of the learner. This course may be especially appealing to those students possibly interested in studying Korean at the University/College level later on! 

Students are required during class to interact verbally and visually, if possible, with the other students and the instructor to answer questions and more effectively practice speaking, reading and pronunciation-please contact the instructor prior to the course if you need accommodation. 

The class meeting time is 75 minutes approximately. Instruction will be done via discussion, speaking practice, reading outloud, written practice, as well as short lectures and powerpoint. When possible and relevant, authentic source material, videos, music, etc. will be used. Students will participate in both vocabulary and grammar based activities as well as short speaking assessments to allow the learner as well as the instructor to assess the student's progress and make relevant study suggestions to the student individually. 


Over the course students will continue to build and practice their beginner level speaking and writing skills, listen to, read, and practice simple conversations and communicate about everyday activities, the weather, and their condition. Students will be instructed in foundational Korean grammar, be introduced to relevant Korean cultural topics, and hone their Korean pronunciation and intonation skills as well. The course will cover primarily material from the 3rd and 4th lessons of the 2nd edition textbook Integrated Korean Beginning 1 which is required to be purchased for this class. 

Students will review during Week 1
Students will learn:
Weeks 2-6: How to inquire about someone's well being using both the polite and honorific forms, how and when to accurately use the honorific form, to make requests, to express general possession versus existence, to use appropriate particles for objects versus subjects, and to type at a beginner level in Korean.

Weeks 7-13: How to count to 20 using the Native-Korean number system, count up to 10,000 using the Sino-Korean number system, to ask and tell about quantities using appropriate noun counters, to inquire about hometown and family members, to describe their residence, and to express personal possession.
Students will review during Week 14