In the last two posts I wrote a short guide on how to use a few materials to help you improve your Korean. These are the beginner levels. Once you've studied Korean for 3-4 months, it's time to upgrade.
By this stage you should be able to:
- Read basic Korean texts
- Have conversations about the weather, the future, your favourite films etc.
- Talk to people in casual environments: restaurants, bars
- Understand whole sentences or dialogues in films and songs
- Ask for and understand directions
- Make long sentences using different endings like -지만jiman, -는데-neun-dae, -니-ni etc. etc.
If you can do these things, that's fantastic! But it means the first stage is over and you have to work even harder and you now have no excuse not to speak Korean all the time! For study alone time I recommend this book:
I started reading it about 3-4 months into the course and at the beginning it was difficult. I persevered, reading it in the subway every day and using my little phone dictionary, writing the new vocab in pencil next to the new words. By the end it was so easy I could read one of the little texts in about 5 minutes! The satisfaction is amazing.
It's aimed at TOPIK students who want level 3 and each page has a little cartoon and Korean story about Korean culture. It's really fun, informative and best of all each little text is short enough for it not to be boring. You can buy it in any big bookshop.
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