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Course description: Korean for beginners with no previous knowledge (A1.1)

This course starts with the basics of Korean writing (Hangeul), including consonants and vowels.
Another focus is on the basic pronunciation rules that enable participants to read and write Korean words and sentences correctly.

As the semester progresses, a basic vocabulary and essential grammar structures are systematically built up.
The aim of the course is to enable students to hold simple everyday conversations in Korean with confidence by the end of the semester.

• Greetings and self-introduction: names, nationality, languages and professions.
• Family: Talking about your own family.
• Everyday objects: Questions and answers about various objects.
• Number systems: Using pure Korean and Sino-Korean numbers and the corresponding counting words.
• Time and telling the time: Expressing the time in Korean.

• Sentence structure and copula: The verb "to be" (이다) and the negation "not to be" (아니다).
• Particles: subject marker (은/는), subject particle (이/가) and object particle (을/를).
• Demonstrative pronouns: 이/그/저 (this/that/those) and the possessive marker 의.
• Existence and location: 있다/없다 (present/not present), location information and the local particles 에 and 에서.

• Sogang Korean 1A (3rd Edition) Student's Book
  ISBN: 979-1167481535
• Sogang Korean 1A (3rd Edition) Workbook
  ISBN: 979-1167481542