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The Pieces Inside Words
Fifty-seven pieces that turn the words you know into the words you do not
More than half of Korean vocabulary is assembled from a small set of recurring pieces. 학교, 학생, 대학 and 학년 are not four words to memorise — they are one piece, 학, seen four times. Beginners can ignore this and still get by, because beginner vocabulary is mostly whole. Above that level it stops working: almost everything new is assembled, and learners who memorise one word at a time slow down every month. Seven daily lessons on the fifty-seven pieces that pay best, built entirely on words you already know. This course does not teach Hanja and never tests it — the piece you need is the Korean syllable. The last day turns the pieces into a method for reading a word you have never seen, and is honest about where that method stops.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 122
- Quiz items
- 50
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · The pieces words are made of
- 1Korean words are made of piecesSeven pieces, and the twenty words you already knew without knowing whySplit a familiar word into its pieces and use those pieces to read a word you have never seen.
- The pieces that mean a person인 · 자 · 사 · 원 · 민 · 가 · 장 — seven ways to end the name of a jobRecognise which piece at the end of a word marks a person, and read an unfamiliar job title.
- Words about words어 · 문 · 서 · 화 · 명 · 자 — the pieces that name languages, writing and talkName any language, and read the words on a library, a bookshop and a phone.
- Time and number시 · 간 · 일 · 월 · 년 · 분 · 매 · 반 — the pieces on every calendar and every formRead a date, a duration and a schedule without translating them one word at a time.
- The body, and where you go when it fails의 · 약 · 병 · 원 · 심 · 력 · 체 — and why 회사원 and 병원 share nothingRead the sign over a clinic, a pharmacy and a hospital, and tell the two 원 apart.
- Roads, vehicles and the way in동 · 차 · 도 · 장 · 출 · 입 · 행 — the pieces printed on every station and every doorFind the exit, the platform and the bank from the sign alone.
- Reading a word you have never seenNine affixes, and what to do when one sound is two piecesTake an unfamiliar word apart, produce a sensible reading, and know how far to trust it.
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.