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When Sentences Get Longer
The connectives that carry you from short sentences to real ones
What separates level 3 from level 4 is not vocabulary — it is sentence length. By level 3 you make short sentences well; above it, the work is joining them, and that is where people stop. Korean connectives carry grammatical constraints that English conjunctions do not have, and those constraints are what actually break learners: some demand that both halves share a subject, some demand they differ, some refuse a past-tense marker in front, and some refuse a command after. Two connectives both meaning *because* will accept and reject completely different sentences. Seven daily lessons that put the three constraints first and then fill them in — four ways to say because, the ending that does three jobs at once, time and interruption, four conditionals, and reporting what someone said including the contracted forms that are the only ones anyone actually says. The last day stacks them, and is honest about the point where a longer sentence stops helping.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 125
- Quiz items
- 49
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · Joining clauses
- 1Three rules that decide every connectiveSubject, tense, and what is allowed to come after — learn these onceTest any connective against the three constraints instead of memorising its meaning.
- Because — four of them, and they are not interchangeable-아/어서 · -(으)니까 · -느라고 · -길래Choose the right *because* from what follows it and whose fault it is.
- Turning and setting the scene-지만 · -는데 · -더니 — and why -는데 is the most useful ending in KoreanUse -는데 for background as well as contrast, and tell -더니 from -았더니.
- Two things at once, and one after another-(으)면서 · -자마자 · -다가 · -(으)ㄴ 뒤에 · -기 전에Order two events in one sentence and say which was interrupted.
- If, only if, and if only-(으)면 · -거든 · -아/어야 · -았더라면Separate a plain condition from a necessary one, and say what you wish had happened.
- Reporting what someone said-다고 · -냐고 · -자고 · -(이)라고 — and the short forms everyone actually usesReport a statement, a question, a suggestion and a command, then contract them.
- Two in one sentence, and where to stopStacking connectives, and the length that stops helpingBuild a two-connective sentence correctly, and know when to use a full stop instead.
Languages this course is written in
The lessons are explained in one language. Where a translation exists your screen uses it; where it does not, you see the original rather than a blank.