Teacher: Lia K.

Grammar Basics

This course is a blend of the basic grammatical structures of Korean, as well as a brief introduction to the meta principles of Korean grammar (i.e., linguistic knowledge) that will help learners, especially novice or beginner learners, to understand what they see and hear. Language learners can get distracted by the surface-level characteristics of a language and not realize that there are far fewer principles responsible for it, and that these principles are likely very familiar to you. Further, many language courses (and even instructors) often assume that you will have this prior knowledge to some degree, thus, the idea behind Foundational Korean: Grammar Basics is to give you a simple but solid background on the "real" (i.e., linguistic) principles that make up the Korean language and which will prepare you to understand the grammar you see in the rest of the Survival Korean courses.