Korean
Gain the confidence to start real conversations in Korean. No drills, no memorisation, no pressure.
Key facts:
1 courses
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11 hours
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Beginner
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All-audio method
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Downloadable phrase lists
Your learning journey
The Foundation course is perfect for absolute beginners, or those looking to refresh their knowledge. A free, no obligation 20-minute lesson is available as a taster. A new Intermediate Korean course is coming soon!
Michel Thomas Foundation Korean
£80
Eleven hours of structured learning takes you from the basic building blocks of the Korean language to creating your own sentences.
Listen as two students with no previous knowledge of the language are guided through the foundations of the language and join in as the third student in the class. Pause and respond when prompted to start to put your speaking skills into practice. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students’ real progression from absolute beginners to confident speakers – including their mistakes and the teacher’s corrections. You’ll learn in small, manageable steps, building your ability to produce ever more complicated sentences.
You will start with common and loan words, giving you a substantial starting vocabulary within your first hours of learning. By the end of the course, you will be confidently formulating sentences in the present, future and past tenses.
This course is taught by Jieun Kiaer and Derek Driggs according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Dr Jieun Kiaer is Associate Professor in Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She has published several books and papers on Korean language and poetry, as well as in language acquisition. She is the recipient of British Academy and Korean Foundation research grants. Derek Driggs is a PhD student in Linguistics and a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, and has an MSt in Korean Studies. He has lived and worked in Korea extensively and is an experienced teacher of Korean as a foreign language.
Eleven hours of structured learning takes you from the basic building blocks of the Korean language to creating your own sentences.
Listen as two students with no previous knowledge of the language are guided through the foundations of the language and join in as the third student in the class. Pause and respond when prompted to start to put your speaking skills into practice. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students’ real progression from absolute beginners to confident speakers – including their mistakes and the teacher’s corrections. You’ll learn in small, manageable steps, building your ability to produce ever more complicated sentences.
You will start with common and loan words, giving you a substantial starting vocabulary within your first hours of learning. By the end of the course, you will be confidently formulating sentences in the present, future and past tenses.
This course is taught by Jieun Kiaer and Derek Driggs according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Dr Jieun Kiaer is Associate Professor in Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She has published several books and papers on Korean language and poetry, as well as in language acquisition. She is the recipient of British Academy and Korean Foundation research grants. Derek Driggs is a PhD student in Linguistics and a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, and has an MSt in Korean Studies. He has lived and worked in Korea extensively and is an experienced teacher of Korean as a foreign language.
11 hoursBeginner levelMaster three tenses
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