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가요.

Someone goes.

How a sentence becomes your own

아빠가 가요.

Dad goes.

Adds who goes.

아빠가 은행에 가요.

Dad goes to the bank.

Adds the destination.

아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.

Dad goes to the bank by taxi.

Adds the transport.

내일 아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.

Dad goes to the bank by taxi tomorrow.

Adds when.

5 levels · Words · Letters and sounds

43 chapters · 447 lessons + 34 on letters and sounds

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What you will learn

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  • Beginner 1

    Say who does what, when, and why.

  • Beginner 2

    Describe actions and states in more detail; share what you heard and what you think.

  • Intermediate 1

    Add conditions and guesses; tell apart what you experienced and what others said.

  • Intermediate 2

    Distinguish reasons and results; state conditions and limits in writing.

  • Advanced 1

    Put nuance into concession, inference, warning and irony, and follow the flow of news articles.

Inside the course

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chapterslessons
Beginner 16 chapters · 43 lessonsSay who does what, when, and why.
  1. Three frames8 lessons
  2. Endings and company8 lessons
  3. Numbers and dates6 lessons
  4. Wishes and time9 lessons
  5. Requests and respect6 lessons
  6. Joining ideas6 lessons
Beginner 26 chapters · 62 lessonsDescribe actions and states in more detail; share what you heard and what you think.
  1. Choices and conditions12 lessons
  2. Nouns and writing10 lessons
  3. Questions and change10 lessons
  4. The person listening11 lessons
  5. Thoughts and experience10 lessons
  6. Time and place9 lessons
Intermediate 18 chapters · 98 lessonsAdd conditions and guesses; tell apart what you experienced and what others said.
  1. Hanja roots10 lessons
  2. Conditions and purpose10 lessons
  3. After an action10 lessons
  4. Guesses and discoveries12 lessons
  5. Degree and reasons15 lessons
  6. Conditions and guides15 lessons
  7. Guides and past events13 lessons
  8. Reporting speech13 lessons
Intermediate 24 chapters · 47 lessonsDistinguish reasons and results; state conditions and limits in writing.
  1. Reasons and results13 lessons
  2. Adding and comparing13 lessons
  3. Appearances and feelings10 lessons
  4. Time and limits11 lessons
Advanced 17 chapters · 66 lessonsPut nuance into concession, inference, warning and irony, and follow the flow of news articles.
  1. Granting, then turning8 lessons
  2. How things go, and guesses12 lessons
  3. What if it had been · if this keeps up9 lessons
  4. Reading the news10 lessons
  5. Reasons and going too far10 lessons
  6. Moments and situations8 lessons
  7. What you heard, what you saw9 lessons
Words12 chapters · 131 lessonsUse each word’s central meaning and the words around it to choose its sense.
  1. Appearing and entering10 lessons
  2. Being and knowing10 lessons
  3. Going and coming15 lessons
  4. Giving and having10 lessons
  5. Making and living10 lessons
  6. Qualities and degree11 lessons
  7. Falling and undoing10 lessons
  8. Sticking and blocking10 lessons
  9. Words and feelings10 lessons
  10. Crossing and pushing10 lessons
  11. Separating and gathering15 lessons
  12. Words10 lessons

Letters and sounds

34 lessons on Korean letters and sounds. This section is separate from the 43 chapters above.

34 lessons

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가요.

Someone goes.

How a sentence becomes your own

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  1. 가요.

    Someone goes.

    How a sentence becomes your own

  2. 아빠가 가요.

    Dad goes.

    Adds who goes.

  3. 아빠가 은행에 가요.

    Dad goes to the bank.

    Adds the destination.

  4. 아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.

    Dad goes to the bank by taxi.

    Adds the transport.

  5. 내일 아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.

    Dad goes to the bank by taxi tomorrow.

    Adds when.

산으로 가요.

Someone heads toward the mountain.

산에 가요.

Someone goes to the mountain.

으로 emphasizes a direction; 에 marks the destination.

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Tuh Korean lesson in English. A sentence grows from 가요 to 내일 아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.Tuh Korean lesson in English. A sentence grows from 가요 to 내일 아빠가 택시로 은행에 가요.

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