Intermediate Korean for Advanced Speakers

PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 281 or EAST-UA 255.

Prerequisite: EAST-UA 281 or equivalent. This course is for students who can speak in Korean about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level. This course covers the 2nd year Korean material in a semester. If you need a permission code to enroll into the course, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the Korean Language Coordinator.

This intensive intermediate course covers the second-year Korean material in a semester. The course is designed for students with intermediate-level speaking proficiency but with reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed elementary level Korean, who can understand, with near-standard pronunciation and without basic major grammatical errors, conversational Korean related to daily-life situations and simple sociocultural topics. It aims to further strengthen students’ correct pronunciation and intonation, grammatical accuracy, ability to understand differences in nuances and overall competence in reading and writing.