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About the Course

This is an elementary-level Korean language course, consisting of 5 lessons with 4 units, and covers 4 skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The main topics include basic expressions used in everyday life, such as greetings, introducing yourself, talking about your family and a daily life and so on. Each lesson covers dialogues, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, quizzes and role-plays. After completing this course, you will be able to 1. read and write Korean alphabet. 2. communicate in Korean with basic expressions. 3. learn basic knowledge on Korean culture. It’s fun and easy to follow! Enjoy it!...

Top reviews

MS

Jun 30, 2021

The course is amazing for now! The teacher explains everything in a great order and it helps me a lot with Korean. I understand a lot more now. Thank you for that Seung Hae Kang and Yonsei University!

AP

Aug 27, 2021

I have learned so much and I really enjoyed learning this beautiful language. I know that I will learn to speak and read with lots of practice and perseverance. Thank you so much for this opportunity!

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By Johanna J J

Apr 14, 2021

Me encanta, gracias aprendí mucho con ustedes y quiero seguir aprendiendo mucho más.

No es facil pero me gusta aprender de su cultura su idioma todo. Por eso doy y dare lo mejor de mi para seguir aprendiendo con ustedes! Muchas gracias por este hermoso curso. Aunque si supiera mejor el inglés supongo que me iria un poco mejor.

Saludos. 감사합니다

By Daniela O

Nov 29, 2020

This course will help you with the basics. You'll learn how to write and read Hangul, you'll know how to count numbers in Korean, you'll know how to say the time and date in Korean. And to make sure that you have learn from the lectures, they give you quizzes. This course is excellent for beginners! I highly recommend you taking this course.

By Diah S

Jan 10, 2023

I realy recomended this course to people who want to learn korean from basic. In this course we given well-structured material, and I really like the explanation because it's really easy to understand. There is a lot of practice and examples as well. Big shout to Coursera and yonsei university to make this course happen. Thank You So Much!

By Raúl I Á M

May 31, 2020

Es excelente para comprender lo fundamental del coreano. Debido a lo básico que es uno puede envolverse en el idioma y adquirir con mayor fluidez el coreano. Además, se presentan partículas gramaticales que son necesarias para comprender el cómo se comunican, pues los coreanos son detallistas a la hora de comunicarse, por no decir precisos.

By Rizqi S

May 16, 2020

The course is really amazing for now! Professor Seung Hae Kang explains everything in a great order. She guides me through every lesson with detailed explanation and dedication, it helps me a lot on learning Korean. This is a very good recomendation to learn Korean for beginners. Thank you for Proffesor Seung Hae Kang and Yonsei University!

By Maryrose G

Dec 25, 2016

This course is great! I am fond of watching Korean dramas and and this made me appreciate the language more. My only knowledge before taking this course are a few words that were frequently spoken in dramas but after finishing this, I can now read Hangeul. This is a very good beginner's course for those who want to explore other languages.

By Sri B W s

Jul 26, 2023

I am very grateful to be able to take this course. this course provides extraordinary knowledge for me who is learning beginner Korean. even though I am still learning this course I can immediately understand because the explanation is very easy and clear, thank you coursera, thank you Prof. Seung Hae Kang and thank you Yonsei University.

By Nessrine A

Nov 14, 2021

It was my very first experience taking an online course in Korean, and it´s very fruitful. I learnt a lot from my first experience. My Korean went from a basic level to a different level that I can understand somehow basic conversations. My journey of learning korean has just started with Coursera, and it will continue until the very end.

By Febby A

Oct 8, 2021

Thank you very much for allowing me to learn Korean through this course. I am so happy with the learning process because it is interesting and easy to understand. It's fun when doing quizzes, I take it seriously to get good grades. I hope I can master Korean well, hopefully this course will develop and be successful in the future. ️고맙슴니다

By Tan W T

May 5, 2020

The syllabus is very well planned, with adequate examples to illustrate and extensive vocabulary for practice. The graded quizzes are also of suitable difficulty levels. I am very happy to be able to learn the basics of the Korean Language from this course and would definitely recommend it to people who have no knowledge of the language.

By Tika A

Nov 19, 2019

Mrs Kang explanation is so clear. i can understand all the things she say in the video. So that i can learn reading, writing, listening and speaking korean language easily. so much helpful to improve my language ability and i am able to speak hanguk and write hangeul. thank you very much mrs.Kang and also coursera to provide this course!

By Karen C

Sep 10, 2021

Me encantó, lo recomiendo totalmente, soy una persona muy distraída y muy difícilmente algo llama mi atención y este curso lo logró al 100%. Las actividades muy bien, todo lo que te preguntan en cada una es lo que te enseñan en cada vídeo, hasta me atrevería a hacer todo el curso desde cero de nuevo solo para repasar, lo disfruté mucho.

By Wende N

Sep 6, 2021

I enjoyed this course. I am a Korean American, born in Seattle and have always wanted to learn to speak, read and write Korean. This was a clearly taught, challenging and fun class. Now, I need to keep practicing! Hope to take a more advanced class in the future, but for now I will try to get better at what this class has taught me.

By Taufiq M

Mar 25, 2024

Hello, I'm Muhamad Taufiq, I would like to thank you in advance because I have been given the opportunity to study Korean on Coursera. The impression I get is that Coursera is very helpful in teaching this course. The lessons provided are very detailed, clear, and there are language subtitles that you can choose. Thank you to Coursera.

By Sukitta K

May 21, 2020

This course is very useful for people who want to learn Korean language from the basic one. Professor is nice. In each lesson professor will explain everything clearly that make student can easily understanding. For quiz it quite simple as well, so if student pay attention with the lesson, student will be able to pass the quiz easily.

By David K

Jan 9, 2017

excellent course, well explained in a fun and precise way,

nice to use foreigners for the videos, but only white people, why not have some dark people too?

the mandarin translation is good,

But it would help Chinese speakers to have the Chinese original translation of the vocabulary

ex: 清掃 =청소

will there be a second level course?

고맙습니다

By RARA P D

Oct 12, 2023

Sejauh ini cukup bagus dalam penjelasan materinya. Hanya sedikit kasih saran saja. Di dalam catatan ada tulisan ASING atau FROIGNER jangan ditulis seperti itu lebih baik di tulis dengan kata atau kalimat aslinya. Di dalam video penjelasannya terdapat kurangnya penjelasan atau arti kata bahasa korea yang sedang di jelaskan. Terimakasih

By Albert L

Dec 6, 2021

The explanation is quite clear, help me to understand Korean language and its culture. However, I know that this course is only for some introduction and need to learn more to understand Korean more deeply. But, by joining this course I get more attracted to Korean, and motivate me to learn again, thank you prof Kang for the teaching.

By Hanna M S M

Jun 28, 2020

I had learned so much. The teacher's lectures were a big help for me to learn Korean. It was really a step by step. The lectures were slowly but surely. You will know where it started. I do reccommend this class for my fellow non-korean beginners to enter this class to learn where korean languange and characters came from. Thank you!

By Jess P

Jun 4, 2020

Love this course!! So glad I found this resource and got to learn it for free on Coursera. Definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to learn basic Korean. This course teaches you the basics, and make sure you knows the basic rules of Hangeul. Quizes are easy if you learn and take note diligently. An excellent basic-level course.

By Yadira Z

May 5, 2020

Thank you to Yonsei university for offering this course on coursera and to the teachers who created, i thought it was going to be more difficult to understand it 'cause is a completely different language than mine but is really good structured that made my learning easier, I enjoyed a lot and was pleased to take it, I'd recommend it.

By Charmaine W

Nov 23, 2018

Very good course. I've been trying to learn Korean, on and off, for a few years now and this course has been the only method that I can say has worked for me. So many important rules and basics are presented in this course, that other programmes I did lacked. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Korean from scratch! 5 stars!

By Naomi A F C

Mar 18, 2018

I learned too much in this course and solved some doubts, I'm excited so I'll take more Korean courses on this platform, the only thing I would like to suggest, is that the lessons have subtitles in Spanish since not all of them contained it, I'm Mexican and I speak Spanish so it got a bit complicated. That's all, thank you very much

By Tony L

Jun 29, 2021

This is great starter course for anyone who wants to learn Korean, it provides the basic fundamentals from the alphabet all the way to most common verbs/vocabulary and how to conjugate them. I was able to start holding conversations in Korean with my Korean friends, and they were impressed by how progression came from just 1 course.