Korean Classes at Liquor Burger

Cost: Free

Time: Every Sunday at 6 p.m.

Materials Needed: A notebook and pen or pencil.

Topic for 11/13: Greetings and Introductions

Topic Pro Tip: Fill your notebook with things you'd ask someone the first time you meet. Get all the question words down (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How). Think of both sides of the conversation and write them both down in your notebook. It'll fill the page much faster.

For the Greetings and Introduction topic, we'll first take a look at the question words and self-introduction phrases.

Topic for 11/6 Follow-up: Alphabet and Basic Sentence Structure

Topic Pro Tip: While romanization may seem easier, get into the habit of not using it at all. As we move in class, we'll drop it altogether. Start writing only in the Korean alphabet and get that sound and symbol recognition glued in your brain.

Pro Tip 2: Any time you're walking down the street, read the business and street signs to yourself. Start slowly and speed up. You'll recognize a ton of words that are Konglish! Type the words into your phone and start finding out meanings.

Korean Reference Materials

We have a ton of materials at the bar, including phrasebooks, a picture dictionary, beginner-level grammar and vocab books and flash cards. Get together with a few friends from class, and you can get your notebooks banged out in 30 minutes!

Korean Reference Web Sites

Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT

It's great if you need just a quick vocabulary word translation.

zKorean: http://www.zkorean.com/

This site has a little of everything. There is alphabet, grammar, dictionary, grammar, flash cards and some great vocab lists.

Essential Grammar: http://brskl.org/resources/upload/2009-8-28/KoreanGrammarTextbook.pdf

This is a Korean grammar handbook in PDF form. It goes really in-depth on a lot of grammar topics. If you have access to a printer, print it out and keep it with your study materials.

Dongsa.net: http://dongsa.net/

This is one of my all-time favorite reference sites. Type in ANY Korean verb and it is conjugated in EVERY tense and form. It's really an amazing tool.

ezkorean.com: http://ezcorean.com/

This site has grammar lists and a TON of vocabulary. It even has lists of the most commonly used words. There's a lot of info here.

Korea WikiProject: http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

As with Wiki pages, this is a user-collaborated page. Though some sections are incomplete, there is a lot of useful grammar and alphabet stuff here. There're also sections on Korean slang, survival Korean and some quizzes.

Hanguk (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_alphabet

This is a great introduction to the Korean alphabet, including phonetic sounds and history.