In Korean Beginner 4, students build on their foundations in Korean by expanding sentence structure and vocabulary, enabling them to describe situations and subjects using more complex patterns, and to express states and intentions through a wider range of verb constructions.
In the previous courses, students focused on understanding basic Korean sentence structures and using them to describe situations, people and objects, as well as to engage in simple conversations. In this course, students discover new verb endings and verb phrase expressions that reflect the temporal flow of actions or states, tenses and the speaker’s attitude, as well as the rules governing conjugation. Students also develop the ability 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:
- Give general directions and describe major means of transportation
- Indicate the sender and recipient of an item or message
- Ask for someone’s availability and give your own
- Ask and answer about symptoms and give and receive advice.
- Express emotions by describing how you feel.
- Express permission and prohibition
- Communicate over the phone
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/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
Integrated Korean: Beginning 2, Third Edition (2020) is recommended but not required. You can purchase this textbook from the UBC Bookstore.
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
For all languages classes, you’ll need access to the internet, a personal email account and an up-to-date web browser.
For online classes, you will also need a video camera and a microphone on your device.
The day before your course starts, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access the course.