Overview of the Korean Course
The Korean Course is divided into 47 units, many of which are composed of dialogues,
notes, and supplemental vocabulary. The course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of Korean and is fully
self-instructional. This means that while an instructor/native speaker would be helpful, it is not imperative to
learn Korean with this course. Volume I contains 18 CDs and a 560 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the
textbook in a PDF file format. Volume II contains 16 CDs and a 568 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the
textbook in a PDF file format.
Unit 1: Greetings: How are you? My name is James. I am a student, studying Korean
Unit 2: Finding One's Way Around. Excuse me for a moment. May I ask you a question. Where is the....
Unit 3: Asking for directions, how to get to Seoul station?
Unit 4: Shopping. Dealing with numbers
Unit 5: Shopping: continued
Unit 6: Time
Unit 7: Time: continued.
Unit 8:Talking about One's work
Unit 9: Going to the Movies
Unit 10: Going around the town
Unit 11: Going around the town: continued
Unit 12: Eating and Drinking
Unit 13: Eating and Drinking: continued
Unit 14: Talking about One's Life and Family
Unit 15: Talking about One's Life and Family: continued
Unit 16: Using the telephone
Unit 17: Telephone conversation: continued
Unit 18: Talking about the weather
Unit 19: At Seoul Station Information
Unit 20: At Seoul Station Information (continued)
Unit 21: At the ticket window
Unit 22: On the train
Unit 23: At Taejon Inn
Unit 24: At Taejon Inn: continued
Unit 25: Room service
Unit 26: Giving instructions to the concierge
Unit 27: Reading signs
Unit 28: Reading signs: continued
Unit 29: Going out for a drive
Unit 30: At the service station
Unit 31: Haircut
Unit 32: Visiting someone in the hospital
Unit 33: Hosptial: continued
Unit 34: Invitation
Unit 35: Invitation: continued
Unit 36: Invitation: continued
Unit 37: Educational system
Unit 38: Educational system: continued
Unit 39: Discussing's One' Occupation
Unit 40: Discussing's One' Occupation: continued
Unit 41: Going out to the countryside
Unit 42: Going out to the countryside: continued
Unit 43: Society and Social life
Unit 44: Society and Social life: continued
Unit 45: Military service
Unit 46: Military service: continued
Unit 47: Government and Politics
These two volumes are designed to teach spoken
Korean to English speakers. The Korean presented in this
course is representative of the 'standard' speech of educated
Koreans in Seoul, which has been the capital city and
cultural, educational and political center of the country
for over five hundred years. In Korea, as in every other
nation, there is considerable local variation in pronunciation
and vocabulary as well as in styles of speech. However, in
schools all over Korea the language presented here is used and
taught as the national standard and, if you learn it well,
you will be speaking a form of Korean which has prestige
throughout the country and which will be understood everywhere.
