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Korean through Taekwondo
Read, write and speak the Korean you already hear in the dojang
Fourteen days from "태권도 is a shape" to reading the wall of your dojang out loud. Every letter is taught through a word you already say every week — so you are never memorising, only recognising. Ends with a full grading interview in Korean.
- Lessons
- 14
- Days
- 14
- Minutes
- 198
- Quiz items
- 88
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · Reading the letters
- 1The shape of a soundWhy 태권도 has three blocks, not seven lettersRead a Korean syllable block and write 태권도 · 도장 by hand.
- Counting to tenThe numbers your instructor actually shoutsCount 하나 to 열 out loud and write all ten in Hangul.
- Commands on the floor차렷 · 경례 · 준비 · 시작 · 그만 · 바로Read the six commands that open and close every class, and act on them.
- The bottom letter (받침)Seven sounds do all the workPredict how any final consonant is pronounced, using the seven-sound rule.
- Soft, hard, and doubledㄱ ㅋ ㄲ — three ways to make one soundHear and write the difference between plain, aspirated and tense consonants.
- Combined vowelsㅐ ㅔ ㅘ ㅝ ㅢ — and reading a full dojang signRead every vowel in the system and decode a real sign on a dojang wall.
- Read the wallWeek 1 review — no new lettersRead any Hangul word aloud, correctly, without a romanisation crutch.
Week 2 · Speaking in the dojang
- Greeting your instructorPoliteness is grammar, not tone of voiceGreet, thank and take leave of an instructor with the correct formal endings.
- The little words that carry meaning은/는 · 이/가 · 을/를Build a Korean sentence with the correct particle after each noun.
- Naming what you doBody, technique, direction — and how Korean builds a wordDecode any technique name into its parts and say what it means.
- Belts, colours, ranksDescribing things — and the two number systems meetSay your rank and belt colour correctly, using Sino-Korean numbers.
- In the ringSparring calls, scoring, and the refereeFollow a full sparring sequence in Korean, from 준비 to the score call.
- The five tenetsReading Sino-Korean vocabularyRead and explain 예의 · 염치 · 인내 · 극기 · 백절불굴 in Korean.
- Your gradingEverything, in one conversationHold a complete beginner grading interview in Korean, start to finish.
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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