First Step Korean
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 1:16 am
This is a nice little beginning course in Korean on Coursera, from Yonsei University, with about an hour's worth of lectures per week, divided into four units, for a total of 5 weeks. It's meant to teach the alphabet and sounds, and some basic vocabulary and expressions, including numbers and dates. This is just to whet one's appetite, I think, and if you want to go further you'd need to continue with, for example, Learn to Speak Korean 1, also on Coursera. That one sounds more substantive, and assumes that students are already comfortable with Hangeul.
You can pay for First Step Korean if you really want to have a certificate (I couldn't care less). Otherwise you can take it for free, and you can still submit the quizzes for grading, unlike some other courses on Coursera that require payment before allowing feedback.
You can pay for First Step Korean if you really want to have a certificate (I couldn't care less). Otherwise you can take it for free, and you can still submit the quizzes for grading, unlike some other courses on Coursera that require payment before allowing feedback.