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Korean from the Signs
Read the map, ask the way, get across Seoul — in two weeks
Every public sign in Korea is bilingual, which makes the city itself a workbook that marks your answers. Week one teaches the alphabet through station names and shop signs, so you read the Korean and the romanisation underneath tells you whether you were right. Week two takes you from stopping a stranger to telling a taxi driver where to pull over.
- Lessons
- 14
- Days
- 14
- Minutes
- 232
- Quiz items
- 87
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · Station names and street signs
- 1The shape of 서울Every sign in Korea checks your answer for youRead a Korean syllable block and write 서울 · 강남 by hand.
- 역 · 선 · 출구The six words printed on every platformRead the standard subway signage and the letter at the bottom of a block.
- Place names are made of pieces강 · 산 · 대 · 문 · 로 · 동Take a Korean place name apart and guess what kind of place it is.
- 몇 번 출구 — the numbers on signs2호선, 3번 출구, 지하 1층Read line numbers, exit numbers and floor numbers off a sign.
- 방면 — which way is this train goingThe word that decides whether you arriveRead a platform sign and know which direction the train is heading.
- Signs above the street편의점 · 약국 · 은행, and the last vowelsRead every remaining vowel and identify the shops on a Korean street.
- Read the mapWeek 1 review — no new lettersRead any station name aloud and check yourself against the sign beneath it.
Week 2 · Asking, riding, arriving
- 실례합니다 — asking a strangerWhere is it? — the sentence that unlocks the cityStop a stranger politely and ask where something is.
- 어떻게 가요 — how do I get there타다 · 내리다 · 갈아타다Ask how to reach a place and understand an answer involving lines and transfers.
- 에 · 에서 · 으로Three particles that place you in the cityChoose between 에, 에서 and (으)로 correctly.
- 교통카드 — the card and the fareBuying it, topping it up, and why you must tap outBuy and top up a transit card, and understand how the fare works.
- 택시와 버스Telling a driver where to stopTake a taxi or bus and tell the driver where you are going and where to stop.
- 길을 잃었어요When something goes wrongSay you are lost, ask for help, and describe a problem.
- Airport to hotelThe whole journey, in KoreanGet from Incheon Airport to a hotel in Seoul using only Korean.
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.
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