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Following a Korean Lecture
The spoken signals that tell you what to write, what to drop and where you are
A lecture hall has no rewind button. One person speaks for an hour, in a register that mixes formal -습니다 with -죠 and -거든요, full of fillers and mid-sentence corrections. This week does not try to make you catch every word. It trains your ear for the signals that organise a lecture: the roadmap at the start that becomes your note skeleton, the phrases that mark what to write and what is only an aside, references back and moves forward, questions the lecturer answers themselves, the filler 이제 that does not mean now, corrections where the last version wins, how to ask a professor a question, and the closing where the assignment is announced as everyone packs up. The last day is one short invented lecture, heard line by line, with the notes it produces.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 90
- Quiz items
- 49
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · The signals of a lecture
- 1How a Korean lecturer soundsWhy -습니다 and -거든요 share one sentence streamRecognise the mixed register of a spoken lecture and what each ending is doing.
- The map at the startThe opening minutes tell you the shape of your notesTurn a lecture's opening roadmap into a note-taking skeleton.
- What to write, what to let goSignals of emphasis, and signals of a side roadTell emphasised points from asides by their signal phrases.
- Looking back, moving onReferences to earlier material, transitions, and questions the lecturer answersFollow references backwards and forwards, and recognise rhetorical questions.
- Fillers and self-corrections이제 that is not "now", and sentences that change their mindFilter out fillers and follow a speaker who corrects themselves.
- Asking questions, and the last five minutesHow to ask in a lecture hall, and what the closing announcesAsk a polite question in class and catch the closing announcements.
- One lecture, start to finishA short invented lecture with every signal from the week — and the notes it producesFollow a complete short lecture and produce structured notes from its signals.
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.