Level 2 Korean

Start here for our official curated pathway for Level 2. This course is aligned with level A2 of the CEFR and TOPIK I (2nd grade).

157 Lessons, 78 Assessments • 35hrs 33min

0 / 235 Complete

The Topic Marking Particles Eun and Neun

Learn how to use the topic marking particles 는 (neun) and 은 (eun)

17 Minutes • Audio

The Subject Marking Particles I and Ga

Learn how to use the subject marking particles il and ga, and the difference between topic marking particles and subject marking particles

20 Minutes • Audio

The Object Marking Particles Eul and Reul

Learn how to use the object marking particles 을 (eul) and 를 (reul)

16 Minutes • Audio

The Sentence Ending Particles

Learn how to use the sentence ending particles 다 (da), ㅂ니다 (bnida) and 요 (yo)

14 Minutes • Audio

Words that Connect Verbs and Sentence Ending Particle 요(Yo)

Learn how to use the words -아 (-a), -어 (-eo), -여 (-yeo), which connect verbs, and the sentence ending particle 요 (yo)

14 Minutes • Audio

Talking about the Korean Weather

Learn how to talk about the weather in detail

13 Minutes • Audio

Talking About Possession in Korean

Learn how to use possessive pronouns to show ownership

13 Minutes • Audio

Can You Talk About Your Daily Routine in Korean?

Learn how to talk about your daily routine in honorific Korean

14 Minutes • Audio

Putting Your Korean to the Test

Learn how to understand basic classroom instructions using the imperative mood

14 Minutes • Audio

Talking About Dates in Korean

Learn how to use the interrogative to ask about dates

15 Minutes • Audio

Shopping for Gifts in Korea

Learn how to use the interrogative to ask about prices

12 Minutes • Audio

What Time Should We Meet in Korea?

Learn how to convey time using honorific sentences

12 Minutes • Audio

Offering Your Congratulations in Korean

Learn how to properly greet someone using honorific Korean

11 Minutes • Audio

Showing Your Appreciation in Korean

Learn how to express gratitude

12 Minutes • Audio

What Do You Do on the Weekends in Korea?

Learn how to discuss future plans with honorific forms

11 Minutes • Audio

Does This Korean Hotel Have Your Booking?

Learn how to inquire about a hotel reservation

12 Minutes • Audio

Finding Your Way Around a Korean Hotel

Learn how to ask directions using honorific Korean

13 Minutes • Audio

Finding Something to Eat in Korea

Learn how to make suggestions using honorific Korean

11 Minutes • Audio

Ordering Food at a Korean Restaurant

Learn how to order items using honorific Korean

11 Minutes • Audio

Making Plans in Korean

Learn how to give instructions and make plans in honorific Korean

12 Minutes • Audio

Are You Playing Phone-tag in Korea?

Learn how to navigate a phone recording system using honorific Korean

13 Minutes • Audio

Is Sickness Getting in the Way of your Korean Plans?

Learn how to say you don't feel well

12 Minutes • Audio

A Visit to a Korean Doctor

Learn how to talk to medical professionals in honorific Korean

10 Minutes • Audio

Which Korean Medicine Should You Take and When?

Learn how to understand simple requests and instructions

12 Minutes • Audio

Will This Korean Flu Ever Go Away?

Learn how to understand honorific advice and recommendations given by medical professionals

13 Minutes • Audio

Does This Korean Taxi Driver Know Where He's Going?

Learn how to give instructions in honorific Korean to a taxi driver

12 Minutes • Audio

Should We Visit this Korean Tourist Attraction?

Learn how to suggest an activity using honorific Korean

13 Minutes • Audio

What Do You Think of this Korean Shrine?

Learn how to describe objects using honorific Korean

12 Minutes • Audio

Sending a Package from Korea

Learn how to talk to postal workers in honorific Korean

11 Minutes • Audio

How Can This Korean Apartment be so Expensive?

Learn how to ask about apartment rental prices in honorific Korean

11 Minutes • Audio

The Past Tense Particles

Learn how to use past tense particles

14 Minutes • Audio

The Question Marking Particles

Learn how to use question marking particles

13 Minutes • Audio

Particles that Indicate Direction

Learn how to use particles that indicate direction

12 Minutes • Audio

Particles that Indicate Time

Learn how to use particles that indicate time

13 Minutes • Audio

Possessive and Directional Particles

Learn how to use possessive and directional particles

14 Minutes • Audio

Self-Introductions

Learn about introducing oneself

11 Minutes • Audio

A Friendly Introduction

Learn about making statements and showing respect

16 Minutes • Audio

A Few Simple Questions

Learn how to ask simple questions

14 Minutes • Audio

Nationalities

Learn how to talk about nationalities

10 Minutes • Audio

That's a Negative

Learn how to use the negative copula

12 Minutes • Audio

Questions

Learn how to ask simple questions

11 Minutes • Audio

Particle Mania!

Learn about understanding the topic particle and subject particle

19 Minutes • Audio

Exchanging Phone Numbers

Learn about counting from 1 to 99, reciting numbers (Sino-Korean numbers)

1 Minute • Audio

Going Somewhere (Part I)

Learn about introducing verbs and catching up

13 Minutes • Audio

Going Somewhere (Part II)

Learn about catching up with friends and expressing possession

15 Minutes • Audio

Going Somewhere (Part III)

Learn about politeness levels and and how to drop aspects of speech

14 Minutes • Audio

Telling Time

Learn about telling time using native Korean numbers

11 Minutes • Audio

Give Me a Few Minutes

Learn how to use 하다 (hada) to ask for and tell the time

15 Minutes • Audio

Just How Polite is 'Polite'?

Learn about Korean social dynamics and standard politeness levels

13 Minutes • Audio

To Eat or Not to Eat

Learn about object marking particle, new first person pronoun

12 Minutes • Audio

This? That? No, That! Over there!

Learn how to ask for things

10 Minutes • Audio

Here? No! There? Where?!

Learn about going to the restroom

12 Minutes • Audio

I Don't Know

Learn how to say "I don't know"

13 Minutes • Audio

Got Plans?

Learn about shopping, calling someone, and asking someone out

11 Minutes • Audio

It's Too Much!

Learn about shopping in marketplaces and talking about prices

10 Minutes • Audio

It is! No, it isn't!

Learn about negating verbs, negating adjectives, and disagreeing

9 Minutes • Audio

Who is This Guy?

Learn how to ask about someone, standard politeness levels, and channel-surfing

15 Minutes • Audio

Study Time

Learn about making loan words into Korean verbs

14 Minutes • Audio

What About the Audio Blog?

Learn how to ask what someone is doing

9 Minutes • Audio

Whatcha doin?

Learn how to ask "What you are doing?"

14 Minutes • Audio

It's All Right

Learn how to describe things and console a friend

14 Minutes • Audio

I'm Sorry, I Love You

Learn how to use more "hada" verbs

19 Minutes • Audio

I Want To Talk About It

Learn how to talk out issues/problems and explain yourself

12 Minutes • Audio

I Can't

Learn about expressing impossibility and expressing inability

18 Minutes • Audio

After a Long Night (Or Beginner Series?)

Learn how to talk to your loved ones and confess your love

16 Minutes • Audio

HEY!... Who's That?

Learn about expressing interest and confronting someone

19 Minutes • Audio

Linking Particles

Learn how to use the linking particles

16 Minutes • Audio

Noun Modifying Particles

Learn how to use the noun modifying particles

13 Minutes • Audio

Verb Nominalizing Particles

Learn how to use verb nominalizing particles

14 Minutes • Audio

Quotation Particles

Learn how to use the quotation particles

13 Minutes • Audio

Particles to Express "Only"

Learn how to use particles that mean "only"

15 Minutes • Audio

Casually Speaking in Korean: My Family is Doing Well!

Learn about using the intimate politeness level when speaking Korean

20 Minutes • Audio

Show People Respect with Korean Honorific Speech

Learn how to use honorific speech to show respect to those you are speaking to

23 Minutes • Audio

Korean Commands: Please, Bring Me Some Coffee!

Learn how to give commands or make requests using the Korean affirmative imperative

21 Minutes • Audio

Talk About Your Abilities: What Can You Do in Korea?

Learn how to talk about everything you can do, everything you can do, and everything there is even the possibility you can do

18 Minutes • Audio

What Can You Do Well? Tell Them in Korean

Learn how to say 'well' in Korean (jal)

14 Minutes • Audio

Expressing Desires in Korean: I Want…I Want…I Want!

Learn how to use the Korean intentional to discuss your desired intentions and wants

14 Minutes • Audio

Korean Verbs: Do You Like Shopping or Eating?

Learn how to nominalize Korean verbs

17 Minutes • Audio

Korean Negation: It Was NOT me!

Learn how to negate statements so you can tell them "It wasn't me"

16 Minutes • Audio

Korean Particles: For Business OR Pleasure!

Learn the Korean particle "or"

18 Minutes • Audio

Korean Particles: From Now Until Eternity!

Learn the Korean particles "until" and "from"

19 Minutes • Audio

My Family in Korea Loves Your Thoughtfulness!

Learn all about Korean possessive pronouns

13 Minutes • Audio

Who Was With You in Korea…AND What Were You Doing?

Learn the Korean linking particles, 랑 (rang), 하고 (hago), and 와/과 (wa/gwa)

18 Minutes • Audio

Before We Went Home We Ate at the New Korean Restaurant!

Learn a commonly-used pattern in Korean for expressing one action that occurs before another action

13 Minutes • Audio

At School Today, I Learned to Read AND Write in Korean!

Learn to use the Korean conjunction "and" to link verbs and clauses

13 Minutes • Audio

While You’re in Korea, Be Prepared to Work Hard!

Learn how to describe performing multiple actions

13 Minutes • Audio

Shall We Go to Sinchon and Enjoy the Korean Nightlife?

Learn how to connect two actions in Korean using the아/어/여서 (a/eo/yeoseo) pattern, which indicates reason or cause

18 Minutes • Audio

Because it Rained in Korea Yesterday, We Couldn’t Go!

Learn different ways to give reasons for one's action or inaction

15 Minutes • Audio

I Need to Buy a Sweater in Korea Because it’s Too Cold!

Learn another way to give reasons for your actions

13 Minutes • Audio

We’re in Korea, So Let’s Go Have Some Fun!

Learn about reasons for actions related to the future

13 Minutes • Audio

While We Are in Korea, We Intend to See Everything!

Learn how to use the Korean intentional sentence ending to express your intentions

13 Minutes • Audio

Korean Intentional Endings: No, I’m Going to Do That!

Learn how to talk about your plans and intentions

14 Minutes • Audio

Korean Intentional: Are You Two Going to Keep Fighting?!

Learn about the future tense

15 Minutes • Audio

Korean Present Progressive: What Are You Doing Now?

Learn how to express present progressive in Korean (go itda)

9 Minutes • Audio

Making Requests in Korean: Then, Just Take me Home!

Learn how to ask someone to give you or do something for you (a/eo/yeo juda)

8 Minutes • Audio

Korean Grand Finale: Before You Leave, Review with Us!

Review the grammar points covered in this series

15 Minutes • Audio

Particles Expressing "If" and "Even if"

Learn how to use particles that mean "if" and "even if"

16 Minutes • Audio

Negative Feeling Particles

Learn how to use negative feeling particles

16 Minutes • Audio

Confirmation Particles

Learn how to use confirmation particles

14 Minutes • Audio

100

The Checking Particle

Learn the particle for checking what someone has said

14 Minutes • Audio

101

The Suggestion Particle

Learn the particle for making suggestions

13 Minutes • Audio

102

I Did It, I'm Doing It, And I'm Going To Do It

Learn about three main different tenses

13 Minutes • Audio

103

I'm Going To Do It, I Will Do It

Learn about the difference between two future tenses

9 Minutes • Audio

104

Things You Did, Do, and Will Do

Learn about the adnominal suffixes

11 Minutes • Audio

105

Can You Count?

Learn about counters

14 Minutes • Audio

106

Keep on Counting in Korean

Learn about counters

13 Minutes • Audio

107

Make your Korean Count!

Learn about counters in Korean-- for pages, trees, paintings, and houses

13 Minutes • Audio

108

A Marathon of Korean Learning

Learn about time markers, location markers, and range markers

13 Minutes • Audio

109

Is Your Roommate Worse Than This?

Learn about -ㄹ/을 때 "when + subject + verb"

12 Minutes • Audio

110

The Long Goodbye

Learn about time terms

12 Minutes • Audio

111

It's Been a Long Time Since You've Seen a Lesson Like This!

Learn about the sentence pattern "it has been" + Time / In + Time - -만

12 Minutes • Audio

112

Change It

Learn about how to express "at least," "some," "even" (라도) and "even," "so far as" ( 까지)

14 Minutes • Audio

113

You Might Die

Learn about how to express "might/maybe": -ㄹ/을지도 모르다

9 Minutes • Audio

114

My Forgetful Sister

Learn about the sentence pattern "before" + Verb - -기 전에 and "after" + Verb - -ㄴ/은 다음에

12 Minutes • Audio

115

Turn Left, Turn Right

Learn about the sentence pattern "easy/hard to" + Verb - -기 쉽다/어렵다

12 Minutes • Audio

116

Dear Mom

Learn about the sentence pattern "to start" + -ing - -기 시작하다

13 Minutes • Audio

117

Don't Say This in Korean!

Learn about the sentence pattern "don't" + verb - -지 마(요/세요)

12 Minutes • Audio

118

Princess Disease

Learn about how to express "the more" and "the better": -(으)면 -(으)ㄹ수록

11 Minutes • Audio

119

Two in One

Learn about how to express superlatives

13 Minutes • Audio

120

Making Smart Comparisons in Korean

Learn about how to express the extent of something by using 'as much as': -만큼

11 Minutes • Audio

121

A Podcast Called KoreanClass101

Learn about being called: -(이)라는

12 Minutes • Audio

122

Skipping Out on School

Learn about using "if" and "when": -(으)면

12 Minutes • Audio

123

Hanging Out All Night Long

Learn about Potential (ㄹ/을 수 있다) by using "might" + Verb: -ㄹ/을 수도 있다

14 Minutes • Audio

124

Winning The Lottery In Korea

Learn about either… or', 'whether… or' - -(이)든지, (-(이)거나)

15 Minutes • Audio

125

The Spoiled Brat

Learn about -이/기/리/히, which means "passive voice"

15 Minutes • Audio

126

Korean Make-up Artist

Learn about -아/어/여 보이다, which means "to seem" or "to look"

13 Minutes • Audio

127

The Grouping Particles

Learn the particles for talking about two or more items or people

16 Minutes • Audio

128

The Comparison Particles

Learn the particle for making comparisons

15 Minutes • Audio

129

Extra Particles, Part 1

Learn some extra particles

13 Minutes • Audio

130

Extra Particles, Part 2

Learn some extra particles

12 Minutes • Audio

131

Particle Review

Review particles we've introduced in this series

20 Minutes • Audio

132

Express Your Opinion in Korean: I Think We’re Lost!

Learn how to express your opinions politely using, "I think," or "it seems"

12 Minutes • Audio

133

In Korea, We Do it “Like” This!

Learn how to say "like this"

10 Minutes • Audio

134

Korean Contrasts: I Know You Love Me, BUT…

Learn how to make contrasts in Korean using "but" or "although"

13 Minutes • Audio

135

How You Can Get “So Much” More Time in Korea!

Learn how to say "this/that/so + adjective/adverb," as in "so much" or "that many"

11 Minutes • Audio

136

Everything You “Shouldn’t Do” in Korea!

Learn how to say "should not/must not"

12 Minutes • Audio

137

How Much Are You Doing “While” You Are in Korea?!

Learn how to say "while" to combine two actions such as "being in Korea" and "visiting your friend"

14 Minutes • Audio

138

Learning Korean Is neither More Fun nor Effective Than This!

Learn how to say "neither"

12 Minutes • Audio

139

What Experiences Are You Bringing to Korea?

Learn how to talk about your past experiences using the Korean phrase meaning, "to have (not) done"

10 Minutes • Audio

140

How Does Everything in Korea “Look” to You?

Learn how to say "to seem" or "to look"

15 Minutes • Audio

141

How Much is it Worth to You in Korean?

Learn how to express that something is "worthy of" something

16 Minutes • Audio

142

The "Only" One You Want in Korea!

Learn how to say "just" and "only"

14 Minutes • Audio

143

We “Only” Sell Small Korean Clothes Here!

Learn how to say "only/nothing but"

12 Minutes • Audio

144

Korean Conjunctions: Add Seaweed, and Meat, and Garlic!

Learn how to join nouns in Korean sentences using the Korean conjunctions랑/ -하고, meaning, "and/with"

13 Minutes • Audio

145

Express Purpose in Korean: Please Come “to” Pick it Up!

Learn how to express purpose using "to/in order to"

11 Minutes • Audio

146

The Extent of Your Korean: It’s So Short You Regret it?

Learn how to discuss the extent of something by using Korean phrases such as, "to the extent where" and "so much that"

12 Minutes • Audio

147

You “Must Be” Studying Korean at KoreanClass101!

Learn how to say "I am sure," and "It must be"

11 Minutes • Audio

148

“Can’t You See” Every Boy in Korea Loves Her!

Learn how to say "you know" and "can't you see"

10 Minutes • Audio

149

Express Frequency: You Study Korean Six Hours a Day!?

Learn how to express frequency, allocated amounts, or numbers

11 Minutes • Audio

150

Accidents: I Lost My Wallet and Broke my Phone in Korea!

Learn how to discuss things that happen by accident

11 Minutes • Audio

151

Making Plans in Korean: Do You “Plan to” Go Out, Too?

Learn how to talk about your plans using the Korean structure meaning, "to be going to," "to plan to," and "to decide to"

11 Minutes • Audio

152

In the Korean Museum, Don’t Roam but Just Be Still!

Learn how to use the Korean structure meaning, "don't do (A), but do (B)"

10 Minutes • Audio

153

“It Happens That” I Have to Go on a Korean Business Trip!

Learn how to say "it happens that" and "circumstances are that"

9 Minutes • Audio

154

“Depending on” the Weather, We’ll Visit a Korean Park!

Learn how to say "it depends on" or "depending on"

10 Minutes • Audio

155

Express Regret: “I Should Have” Taken the Korean Subway!

Learn how to talk about your regrets using the Korean phrase meaning, "I should have"

11 Minutes • Audio

156

“All You Have to Do” is Come to My Party in Korea!

Learn how to say "All you have to do is"

10 Minutes • Audio

157

Minkyeong's Good-bye Message for KoreanClass101 Listeners

Listen to Minkyeong's message for our listeners

1 Minute • Audio