- Online
- $460
Build on your Korean foundations by expanding sentence structure and vocabulary to express states, intentions and situations using more complex patterns and constructions.
Learn new verb endings and phrases that reflect the temporal flow of actions, as well as changes in the speaker’s attitude, all while learning to apply these structures to real-life situations.
By the end of this course, you will have a deeper appreciation and stronger mastery of concepts covered in Korean Beginner 1, 2 and 3 and will also be able to:
- suggest travel plans and talk about travel experiences
- discuss the activities and hobbies you enjoy as well as those you’d like to try
- make indirect and polite requests
- ask for and give directions in Korea
- ask and answer questions about your schedule and someone else’s
- express symptoms of illness
- understand permission
Course Outline
This is not a prescriptive list. Exact course outlines are determined by the instructor to best meet the needs of the class. The list below is meant to serve as a guideline of topics that may be covered at this level. It is often necessary to repeat levels to become completely comfortable with the skills at each stage.
Communicative/Linguistic objectives
- Getting and giving information about places to go
- Describing a place someone has been
- Giving and refusing advice
- Expressing one’s feelings
- Seeking permission and expressing prohibition
- Explaining rules
- Communicating through phone or text messages
- Dative case marker
- Appropriate honorifics for different social contexts
- Conjugating irregular predicates
- Main-auxiliary verbs constructions
- Linking simple sentences using clausal connectives and conjunctions
- Modifying nouns with adjectives and verbs
- Switching tenses between the past, present and future
Expected effort
You can expect to spend about three hours per week attending live, virtual classes and completing course work on your own time. Expect double this amount during the intensive summer term.
Textbook
This course does not require the purchase of a textbook. Course materials are provided by the instructor.
Course format
This course is offered online and/or in-person. See Available Sessions for details on the course format.
Our online conversational courses offer a virtual classroom experience where you can see and interact with your teacher and classmates over Zoom. Log in at a set time to participate in individual, pair and group work, ask questions and receive feedback from your instructor.
Outside of class time, access course materials online at your own pace for up to three weeks after the course ends.
In-person classes are offered at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver.
Learn more about online learning at Extended Learning.
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
Students who have successfully completed a course can access completion documents two weeks after the course ends. Course completion means 80% attendance and/or 80% completion of mandatory assignments.
Technology requirements
You’ll need a computer or tablet with a video camera and a microphone, access to the internet, an email account and an up-to-date web browser. The day before your course starts, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access the course.