Korean Beginner 2

Gain practical speaking, reading and writing skills in Korean. Beginner 2 is ideal if you have a basic command of Korean vocabulary and grammar, and have been introduced to Hangul.

Build your vocabulary and grammar skills through live, interactive classes, audio recordings and videos as you learn about culture and life in modern Korea. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to understand basic spoken Korean, and read and write simple texts about everyday situations.

Some of the lessons covered in this course include:

• Inquiring about someone’s hometown and family
• Asking and telling about quantity/counting
• Using numbers and noun counters
• Asking alternative questions
• Saying good-bye
• Asking and telling about destination and purpose
• Coming and going
• Asking and telling about time

This course covers lessons 4–7 of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, Third Edition (2019). You can purchase this textbook at the UBC Bookstore.

Course outline

This is not a prescriptive list. Exact course outlines are determined by the instructor to best meet the needs of the class. This is meant to serve as a guideline and suggest what may be covered at this level. It is often necessary to repeat levels in order to become completely comfortable with the skills at each stage with a different teacher and style.

Communicative and linguistic objectives

• Inquiring about hometown and family
• Asking and telling about quantity/counting
• Numbers and noun counters
• Alternative questions
• Saying good-bye
• Asking and telling about destination and purpose
• Coming and going
• Asking and telling about time
• The locative particles
• The basic sentence pattern
• Taking about how much time something takes
• Talking about daily activities, as well as habitual and past activities
• Asking reasons
• Irregular predicates
• Talking about past events
• The negative adverb
• Talking about weekend plans, likes and dislikes 
• Probability
• Question words
• The casual connective
• Negative questions

How am I assessed?

This is a non-credit course without letter or numerical grades. You receive verbal feedback on your conversation and grammar skills from your instructor during class. Written homework is typically corrected in class. Some lesson modules may include quizzes.

Record of completion

A record of completion will be emailed to students who participate and satisfy the course requirements within two weeks of the course end date.

Expected effort

You can expect to spend about three hours per week attending live, virtual classes and completing course work on your own time.

Technology requirements

To take this course, you’ll need access to:

• an email account
• a computer, laptop or tablet under five years old using Windows or macOS
• the latest version of a web browser (or previous major version release)
• a reliable internet connection a video camera and microphone.

One day before the start of your course, we’ll email you step-by-step instructions for accessing your course. 

Course format

This course is 100% online and instructor supported with real-time classes.

Our online conversational language courses offer you a virtual classroom experience where you can see and interact with your teacher and classmates. Just like in a classroom, you do individual, pair and group work, ask questions and receive verbal feedback from your instructor.

Outside of class time, you can access handouts and other materials online at your own pace and rhythm. You might be doing readings or watching videos to prepare for your next class, or practising with the material you have learned in your previous class.

Learn more about online learning at Extended Learning.