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Korean Classes at our Language Door School in San Diego. Serving students in San Diego, El Cajon, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, La Jolla California.
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The Korean language is spoken by the entire population of North Korea and South Korea. While there are certainly differences between the Korean dialect spoken in the north and the one spoken in the south, the dialects are mutually understandable.
The Korean language is also used in the autonomous region of Yanbian which is in the southern province of Heilongjiang in China.
Approximately 78 million people speak Korean, including communities of immigrants now living in the former Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, United States, Brazil, Japan, United Kingdom, as well as the Philippines.
The so called denomination of the language varies between both Koreas. In South Korea it is usually called Hangugeo or Hangungmal. Officially the name given to Korean is gugeo which means "language of the country.Colloquially speaking it is also referred to as urimal that literally means "our language."
North Korean typically refer to the Korean language as Chos nmal although it is also called urimal. The standard of North Korea is based on the way it is spoken in the capital P'yngyang while in the south the standard is the way it is spoken in Seoul. The differences between these two forms of the Korean language does not make it impossible for speakers of either group to communicate with each other because the differences are more or less equivalent to the Spanish spoken in Spain and the Spanish spoken in Latin America.
The origin of the Korean language is not yet clear. Some linguists say it belongs to the group of the Altaican languages whilst others put it in the same group with the Japanese language in one single group: Korean-Japanese.
Since neither of these two views have been demonstrated decisively, those who do study the language prefer to refer to the Korean language as a language significantly distinct from the aforementioned groups. From a morphological point of view, the Korean language uses agglutination which is the process of adding affixes to the base of a word. Korean maintains a grammatical syntax whose base is Subject-Object-Verb. Japanese, Vietnamese, and the Korean languages are influenced heavily by the Chinese language.
The system utilized for writing Korean is known as Hangeul, and it is at the same time an alphabetical and phonetic system. It is quite common to use the vocabularies that come either directly or indirectly from the Chinese language.
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For the Beginning A to Intermediate C classes, we use "Colloquial Korean" by
Routledge. For subsequent classes, please
contact us at our Language Door School in San Diego
to discuss further.
Colloquial Korean consists of a tutorial section on Korean sounds and
scripts, and twenty lessons. This tutorial is intended to help learners of
Korean develop the auditory capability to hear and to discriminate Korean
sounds as a learnable system, and to recognize the characters of the Korean
alphabet.
Each lesson has a two-part dialogue, and each part is divided into the
following six sections:
- Chapter summary - This box lays out the major objectives each
lesson intends to achieve in terms of topics and grammar points.
- Dialogue - The Dialogue introduces ten to twelve lines of Korean
sentences on a chosen topic
- Vocabulary - This section lists the key vocabulary items
essential to deciphering Korean sentences presented in the
dialogues.
- Grammar points - These are devoted to explaining the grammatical
patterns in basic terms as well as listing some idiomatic
expressions.
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Exercises - These offer practical material in the patterns of
Korean.
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Culture point - This section describes some aspect of Korean
culture relevant to the them of the lesson.
Beginning A (chapters 1 & 2)
Topics - Korean sounds and letters, Greetings, meeting people,
introducing yourself, Korean names, typical expressions, etc.
Grammar and usage - Hangul letters, pronunciation, polite expression
for "how are you?", topic case marker 은 / 는, sentence
ending 세요, the negative marker 안, the post position 에, Forms of expression -
declarative/interrogative/request, subject case marker 이/가, future
tense marker 겠, basic Korean sentence structure, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 3 & 4)
Topics - In an office, asking for directions, expressing location,
getting around in Seoul, basic request, identity question, order
dishes, make appointment, shopping, etc.
Grammar and usagee - Two different forms of honorifics, informal
ending 이에요, adverbial ending 게, conjunction 아(어/여)서, possessive marker 의,
two different ways of negating Korean sentences, contracted forms, informal
verb ending 아(어/여)오, informal sentence ending ㄹ/을 거에요, conjunction of
condition (으) 면, sentence ending of obligation 야 하다, the postposition (으)로,
etc.
Beginning C (chapters 5 & 6)
Topics - talk about a trip you've made, use the name of public places
and modes of transport, make basic requests, respond to an identity
question, etc.
Grammar and usage - honorific markers 시/세, postposition 에/에서, the
verb of existence 있다, pronoun 누구, honorific subject case marker 께서, sentence
ending 거든요, linking verb 아닙니다, demonstrative modifiers 이/그/저, informal
ending 이에요/아니에요, verb 있습나다, sentence ending 는데요, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 7 & 8)
Topics - going out for lunch, read a Korean menu and order dishes,
making an appointment, declining an offer, telling the time, etc.
Grammar and usage - past tense, suggestion ending 실까요/시다, object case
marker 을/를, coordinate conjunction 고, less polite informal ending 지요, Korean
numbers 1-100, irregular verb 들다, contracted form 뭘, different types of
Korean verb, conjunction 는데, conjunction 지만, subordinate conjunction ㄴ(은)
후에, verb stem 는, postposition 하고, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 9, 10 & 11)
Topics - taking a taxi, communicating with a Korean driver regarding
destination and direction, shopping at Korean market, negotiate prices,
weekend trip, making a ticket reservation, etc.
Grammar and usage - particle 에서/부터, particle 까지, verb 걸리다, coordinate
conjunction 이고, degree word 정도, auxililary verb ㄹ(을) 수 있다, large numbers and
money, composite verbs 내려주다/내려드리다, contracted sentence ending 시죠, long
negative form 지 않다, particle 만큼, comparison particle 보다, sentence ending
ㄹ(을) 것 같다, abjectival verb 어떻다, the ㅎ irregular verbs, contrastive
conjunction (으)나, exclamatory ending ㄴ(은/는)데요, particle 만, ㄹ(을)까 하다,
particle (이)나, conjunctive postposition 하고, compound verb 갔다 오다, dependent
noun 행, noun counter 장, relative clause marker ㄴ(은)/는/ㄹ(을), progressive
tense form 고 있다, sentence ending (으)면 됩니다, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 12, 13 & 14)
Topics - In a bank, opening a bank account, withdrawing cash, filling
out a withdrawal slip, meeting friends at a Dabang, making an apology,
talking about daily routines with friends, at a hotel, checking in at a
hotel, etc.
Grammar and usage - purpose ending 으려고, conjunctive particle 와/과,
causal conjunction (으)니까, months of the year, days of the month, years,
another purpose ending (으)러, temporal conjunction 기 전에, particle 전에, 었(았)었,
another causal conjunction 기 때문에, stative verb 많다, modification marker ㄹ(을),
postposition 한테, noun particle 씩, exclamatory ending 군요, long negation form
지 못하다, negative sentence ending 밖에 없다, compound form 아(어/여) 보다, postposition
로, sentence ending ㄹ(을)지 모르겠다, sentence ending 고 싶다,
intentional/conditional ending 으려면, postposition 에다가, noun suffix 짜리,
sentence ending 이 필요하다, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 15, 16 & 17)
Topics - Korean weather, talk about characteristics of Korean's four
seasons, talk about the place you're staying, make a phone call, invitation
to a Korean house, accept an invitation to a Korean home, express likes, and
dislikes, etc.
Grammar and usage - nominalizing suffix 기, sentence ending 는 때가 있다,
exclamatory ending 네요, compound verb 러 가다/오다, question word 어떤, personal
pronoun 우리, compound verb ending 아(어/여) 지다, sentence ending ㄴ(은/는) 것 같다,
noun indirect speech ending 고 하다, compund verb 다나다, irregular verbs ending
in ㅂ, verbs 좋다 and 조아하다, relative clause marker ㄴ(은/는) 것, postposition 한테서,
sentence ending 라고 하다, ㄹirregular verb, contracted form 누굴, sentence ending
(으)면 좋겠다, nominalizing marker 기, verbs 보다 vs 보이, ㅎirregular verbs, 아(어/여)도
되다, contrastive conjunction 만, sentence ending 어 보이다, temporal
conjunctionㄹ/을 때에, sentence ending ㄴ(는) 편이다, etc.
Intermediate D (chapters 18, 19 & 20)
Topics - talk about moving into a Korean apartment, at a gas station,
have a car repaired at a service station, at a hospital, talk about illness, etc.
Grammar and usage - sentence ending 면서요, sentence ending ㄴ(은) 모양이다,
conjunction 자마자, sentence ending 곤 하다, compound verb 한 턱 내다, expression
마찬가지다, sentence ending ㄹ(을) 시간이 있다, sentence ending ㄹ(을) 필요가 있다, sentence
ending ㄴ(은)지가 되다, conjunction ㄹ(을) 겸, causal conjunction (이) 라거, sentence
ending 뻔 하다, compound verb form 아(어/여) 주다, semi-causal sentence ending 거든요,
sentence ending 아(어/여) 버리다, sentence ending 기로 하다, sentence ending 기는 하다,
sentence ending (으)면 안 되다, temporal conjunction 동안에, sentence ending (은) 적이
있다, particle 도록, sentence ending 아(어/여) 있다, noun suffix ㄹ(을) 정도고,
conjunction (으)면서, conjunction 아(어/여)도, sentence ending (이)던가요, sentence
ending (이)라고 생각되다, causal conjunction ㄹ(을)테니, etc.
Advanced Classes
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