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Course Design

Deliberate and Thoughtful Curricular Structure

Our course series are designed as one 16-week course, divided into a four independent but sequential building modules. The individual "courses" are designed as one-month units to facilitate your learning journey with us. You do not need to commit to a full course or a full price from the beginning. Rather, you decide when you start and when you are ready to move forward if you are satisfied with our curriculum. We think that our course series are ideal for students (of all ages) wanting to:

1. get an introduction to the Korean language;
2. prepare for a personal/business/school trip to Korea;
3. conduct an academic exchange program in Korea;
4. prepare for starting more advanced level courses;
5. assist Korean minor studies students;
6. learning a new skill!

We also offer 1:1 private tutoring live lessons with Lia Kim, the primary instructor at Survival Korean. She can also arrange for other certified, licensed, and experienced Korean instructors to meet your scheduling needs. You can even sign up for a 1:1 live lesson to discuss questions you may have after taking one or two of the courses. Preview any of our courses to find out which is the best place for you to start.

If you aren't sure, feel free to ask using our Contact Form.

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Course Demo

Course Overview

Check out our demo video to get a better feel for just what our online courses look like, in addition to how they are organized, and how to get around in them.

We know you likely have had a few different experiences with "online" courses but as experience (in addition to practice and research) shows, not all online courses are the same. We hope that you'll get sense of just what Survival Korean has to offer you, and how Survival Korean is not only different but better than other platforms out there!

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Beautiful Course Pages

We were genuine when we said that we take course design seriously, and that online courses can in fact be beautiful and easy to use. We also said that, compared to other available resources, we are uniquely qualified to design, develop, deliver (and ultimately teach) Survival Korean courses; we are not only career educators, but professionals in educational technology. Moreoever, we have the requisite skills in web design and information and communications technology to bring you the best research-backed approaches to learning both online and at a distance. We have spent hundreds of hours designing, coding, and ultimately developing the courses that we offer. Don't just take our word for it, check out just a small preview of what they look like!

Our course home pages introduce each lesson with basic background to orient you to the learning context, directions for starting the main lesson content, and the links you need to access everything in each module. Moreover, they work great on mobile phones so you can take your learning with you on the go if you prefer to not sit at a desktop or laptop.

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Detailed Instructions

We have also carefully considered our design language when designing the lessons themselves so that you have proceed through each lesson with ease. Content is organized to carefully take you from start to finish, and provide you key background knowledge before you dive in more thoroughly in the heart of each lesson.

We have also gone to great lengths to present information to you visually so that, in addition to text, you have visually accessible presentation of language and related concepts.

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Serious Organization

Most websites present vocabulary in long lists or in tables. This isn't efficient, nor necessarily effective (and not particularly aesthetic either). This is especially true (and challenging) when considering how to present this information in easily accessible ways on mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. Not only have we made response vocabulary lists, we also have collapsible ones organized by content or root words.

Each of these entries also has definitions and audio pronunciations when you click on them which access a main glossary to keep things nice and clean! You can study the vocabulary and concepts from this main page or even print it out to take with you on paper, or simply use the more compact versions provided in each lesson!

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Quality Design & Content

While we teach our courses in English, we write our own instructional content in English and Korean! Similarly, we have taken great care and attention to detail to go those extra steps to make sure that everyting is organized, beautiful, and easily accessible. This ranges from beautiful Expresseion Cards to learn target words and phrases, as well as how our longer form content is presented.

Our story narrations are produced with ambient sound effects to bring the stories to life in the same way you hear in professionally produced podcasts, accentuating the use of language to help associate sounds with meaning. We have no doubt that you will enjoy listening to stories read in Korean and learning what they are all about!

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Instant Feedback

You may also be wondering after all of your hard work, studying, thinking, and practicing, just how do you know if you have learned the material as well as you might think.

Each of our lessons includes a Knowledge Check that will allow you to self-assess and get results immediately about the meaning of words, comprehension of stories, historical concepts and events, etc. Of course, you can also consider signing up for 1:1 live sessions to get more detailed feedback, ask questions in real time, etc.

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Our Course Design

Survial Korean: Language and Culture Online

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PhD Instructors & Expert Access

Unlike other online classes where you simply read some explanations and play word games as a method of behavioral learning, every single one of our classes comes with a real instructor! You can ask questions in our Lesson Forums and our instructors will do their best to get back to you within 24 hours. Moreover, our primary instructor, Lia K., is a licensed Korean teacher whose expertise is second to none with an MA and PhD in Education (with a focus on Korean as a Foreign language). Moreover, the other half of the Survival Korean team, Liam S., has a doctorate in education as well! While we appreciate the enthusiastic individuals out there who want to share and teach the Korean language with the world, they are not the same as two higly educated, experienced, certified, and licensed educators!

If you have a question, all you need to do is ask! And even our forums take the same visual design language that we have developed for all other aspects of the courses at Survival Korean. By providing easy ways to get in touch with your instructor, we want all of our learners to know that they are not alone out there in cyber space and that we are here to support your learning!

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Like what you see?!

Don't hesitate to sign up! Of course, feel free to ask us any questions about the courses as well prior to signing up be we are confident with the small preview you have seen here you will not only enjoy learning Surival Korean but will find the effort we have taken in our curriculum and course design to be more than satisfactory!

Moreover, there are no advertisements, upsells, or premium content. For one simple, singular price, you get an entire course - nothing less!

Course Design

Deliberate and Thoughtful Curricular Structure

Course Demo

Course Overview

Beautiful Course Pages

Detailed Instructions

Serious Organization

Quality Design & Content

Instant Feedback

Our Course Design

PhD Instructors & Expert Access

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