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Reading Academic Korean
Noun-packed phrases, signposts, citations and certainty — how a paper is built
Level 6 reading, and every week of a Korean university course, uses the style of papers and textbooks. Its difficulty lies less in vocabulary than in how it is packed: clauses squeezed into nouns, signposts that tell you where the argument turns, fixed frames for defining, classifying and comparing, other people's research woven in, and endings that say exactly how sure the writer is. Learn to see those frames and you can tell who claims what, and how firmly, even with a few specialist words unknown — which is what level 6 questions mostly ask. Every study in the course is invented and no researcher is named, so nothing is remembered as fact. The last day reads a complete abstract, sentence by sentence.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 92
- Quiz items
- 49
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · How a paper is built
- 1What academic Korean looks likeThe endings, the self-reference and the long noun phrases that set it apartRecognise the features that mark a Korean text as academic prose.
- Packing clauses into nouns-기, -음 and -는 것 — and the phrases they buildUnpack a nominalised phrase back into a plain sentence.
- Words that signal where the text is goingRestating, concluding, conceding — the signposts level 6 questions hinge onUse signposts to find the main claim of an academic paragraph.
- Defining, classifying, comparingThree fixed shapes that carry much of any textbookRecognise definition, classification and comparison frames and extract their content.
- Bringing in other people's researchWho said it — and does the writer agree?Tell the writer's own claims apart from the research they cite.
- How sure is the writer?The scale from certainty to caution, and why it decides answersPlace a claim on the scale of certainty from its ending.
- One abstract, read end to endPurpose, method, results, significance — every frame from the week in one placeRead a complete invented abstract and identify its purpose, method, result and significance.
Languages this course is written in
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