King Sejong commissioned the creation of the Korean alphabet in 1443.
Success in teaching spoken Korean depends on the native language of your student. About 70 percent of Korean and a lot of Japanese vocabulary are of Chinese origin, the so called "Han-mun."
The simplicity of the Korean writing system creates an advantage for those studying Korean. Thus, the main difficulty lies with syntax, grammar and pronunciation.
Knowledge of grammar is crucial for speaking Korean. Consider using two teachers, one to teach Korean grammar in the student's native language and a Korean native speaker who will teach pronunciation and vocabulary.
Instructions
Vocabulary
1. Teach your student the Korean alphabet. Provide simple sentences for reading and pronunciation.
2. Encourage your student to learn no less than 2,000 words per year. Be sure he learns Han-mun and indigenous Korean vocabulary separately, and make sure he can recognize whether the words are indigenous Korean or Han-mun.
3. Teach both Korean and Chinese numerals with counting words for diverse types of things, demonstrating their appropriate application.
Syntax
4. Explain to your student that Korean has a subject-object-verb sentence structure, not the English subject-verb-object.
5. Demonstrate that there are postpositions instead of prepositions in Korean. Stress that all particles follow the noun, so the structure is "table on apple an is."
6. Indicate that a sentence can consist of several subsentences preceding the main verb which ends the sentence. Each subsentence is grouped around an action expressed by verbal participle, which has no precise analogue in English. Directly translated, a Korean sentence reads: "We restaurant at dinner having had, friends with having met theater to went."
Grammar
7. Emphasize an importance of "the styles of politeness" expressed grammatically. Provide cultural background for using special vocabulary and verb endings for each style.
8. Make sure your student has a thorough understanding of the neutral polite style of communication, where all the final verbs and adjectives end in "yo."
9. Show that the Korean verb and the adjective are similar in their formal grammatical expression and close in their syntactic functioning.
10. Explain use suffixes for past and future tenses.
11. Give your student an idea of Korean auxiliary verbs.
General Suggestions
12. Discuss with your student simple and practically valuable topics, namely: get a job, enter a Korean university, date a Korean person, where to go for sightseeing in Korea and especially Korean food and traditions.
13. Show your student the best Korean movies without subtitles, because subtitles hold students' attention and do not stimulate understanding of the Korean language.
14. Encourage her to write down unknown words heard in the movies and ask her to find them in a dictionary.
15. Attend Korean Christian church services together.
16. Carry on a phone conversation in Korean with your student..
17.Teach to your student popular Korean songs.
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