Korean Courses

 

      

      

   

      

 

Testimonial from students of Korean Class

"Ashley is very enthusiastic and keeps the attention of the class well. She also relates/tells us about the Korean culture which makes the class very interesting"  (Korean Pre-Intermediate 2 Student, November 2011 - January 2012 Session)

"I was happy coming to class and had lots of fun. Thank you for teaching us, Sarah!"  (Korean Beginner 1 Student, September - November 2011 Session)

"Our teacher is very good, friendly and the most helpful teacher that I ever met. Thank you, Ashley! "  (Korean Beginner 1 Student, August - October 2011 Session)

"Ashley is a great teacher. Thank you!"  (Korean Beginner 1 Student, June- August 2011 Session)

"This language class was much more enjoyable & useful compared to one I attended in Korea."  (Korean Beginner 1 Student, June- August 2011 Session)

"Good allround course. Very well presented."  (Michael Ghazi, Samsung Australia, Corporate Training 2010)

 

Meet Korean Teachers of SLS

Ashley Jang

Qualifications:

Ashley is doing her Master of Education (TESOL) degree at the University of Sydney. Her MEd dissertation title is “An examination of Korean migrants’ English article use and learning difficulty in Australia” which would be published soon.

Experience:

Ashley is a highly qualified teacher who possesses a secondary teacher’s license from Department of Education in Korea. Prior to migrating to Australia, she has worked as a tutor and an educational content developer at Hankook University of Foreign Studies (Oedae Language Centre) and YBM Education Korea. Moreover, she has worked as an associate instructor in business English in Seoul for many years. She taught English and business studies to employees working in bank, tele-communication companies, accounting firms and stock companies including Pricewaterhousecoopers, POSCO, Hana Bank, Kyundai-Kia motors and SK Tele-communications.

She truly loves to teach her Korean classes and has a passionate, professional and friendly manner to lead enjoyable and worthwhile classes.

 

Jiyoon Lee

Qualifications: 

Jiyoon has a Master Degree in French Literature and a Certificate in  TESOL.

Experience:

Jiyoon Lee has been teaching Korean Literature to Korean students at Korean Institute, Seoul and teaching French at Sungsim Girl’s High School. She also worked as an editor for Catholic University of South Korea. From 2009, Jiyoon Lee is the corporate trainer of Korean Language for Sydney Language Solutions

 

Sarah Yong

Qualifications:
Sarah Yong finished a Master of Education (TESOL) and Graduate of Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FEFL) at the University of Sydney. She completed a bachelor of Home Economics in Korea.

Teaching Experience:
Sarah has two years’ experience as an English teacher in the IELTS School, Korea before she migrated to Australia. She has extensive experience in teaching English (IELTS) for adults and Korean for primary and high school students as a tutor. She has been currently teaching TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) to Korean migrants high school students. She is always willing to share her teaching experience with her students and combine Korean and Korean culture in the classroom.

 

Somi Hwang

Qualifications:
Somi Hwang has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare. She is now currently doing her master in education at University of Sydney. Somi also has a TESOL certification from New Zealand Qualification Authority.

Teaching Experience:
Somi has an extensive experience as an English teacher in Sung-Mon Academy in Masan, Korea. She also attended a lot of English courses in different countries, making her familiar to different context of English. As a Korean teacher, Somi is very enthusiastic and patient. With her dedication and enthusiasm, she can fully support Korean students of Sydney Language Solutions in their learning.

 

 

Korean for Beginners - Intensive Course

This course is perfect for people who will go overseas!!

Don’t just come to the country, speak their language and get a different experience!

Course Duration:      4 weeks (2 days per week), 2 hour session per day

Course Fee:              $290 for 8 classes (including FREE Training material)  

Class size:               4-8 students

Level:                        Beginner 1 (for complete Beginners)

Upcoming classes:   

Tuesday (Starting from 10/4/2012) from 06:30-08:30pm & Friday from 06:30-08:30pm

In case that there are only 3 students enrolled, students will be asked to share the cost of $1160 together.

Please call us 9283 9892 or email info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au if you and your friends want to join this course together and we will arrange it for you.

   

For payment purpose, please select the payment option of $290 (Beginners 2) when you enrol to the intensive course

 

Korean for Beginners

Who should take this class?

Learners who have no knowledge of the language, wants to begin a course of study and wants to know simple words and phrases to start communicating with a Korean friend/partner/speaker

Program

Week 1 Korean Alphabet & Character

Week 2 Alphabet 2 & Greetings

Week 3 Asking for nationality

Week 4 What's this?

Week 5 Revision 1

Week 6 What time is it? Numbers

Week 7 At the Restaurant

Week 8 How much is it?

Week 9 Seasons, Weathers & Months

Week 10 Revision 2

What's special about this course?

The fee includes:

  • Teaching materials (Book)
  • Free access and use of Korean learning software, materials and newspaper at the school library.
  • Free access to language exchange program at Sydney Language Solutions

Expected Outcomes:

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • pronounce all the sounds and tones in Korean
  • say hello, goodbye, thank you and greetings
  • tell and listen to the time
  • say numbers, weeks, months and years
  • order food at a restaurant
  • ask a receptionist at a hotel
  • asking for direction
  • get a taxi or buying a train ticket
  • use Korean currency

Course Duration:          10 weeks, 2 hour session per week from 6:30pm-8:30pm

Course Fee:                   $ 270 for standard 10-week class     

Class size:                      4-8 students         

Upcoming class:

Thursday, 29 March 2012 from 06:30pm-08:30pm - *FULL

Wednesday, 11 April 2012 from 06:30pm-08:30pm *FULL

Thursday, 3 May 2012 from 06:30pm-08:30pm - *FULL

Tuesday, 22 May 2012 from 06:30pm-08:30pm - *Only 2 spaces left

   

 

Korean for Beginners 2 (Elementary)

Who should take this class?

Learners who have finished 20 hours of Korean Beginner 1.

Learners understand Korean alphabets and can write Korean words. The learners should have the ability to understand simple sentences and make simple conversations. The learners can ask and answer about name, nationality, time, simple direction and days during a week. They can also say sorry, thank you, greeting and good bye.

Learners want to learn more verbs, noun, vocabulary and improve in sentence structure and fluency. 

What's special about this course?

The fee includes:

  • Teaching materials (Handouts)
  • Free access and use of Korean materials (books, CDs, video, tapes) and newspaper at the school library ANYTIME DURING THE SCHOOL OPENING HOURS.
  • Free access to language exchange program at Sydney Language Solutions
  • Free newsletter to inform the learners about any Sydney-based activities relating to Korean language learning.

Expected Outcomes:

By the end of this course students will be able to expand their vocabulary, to learn more verbs, and basic sentences structure

Textbook to be used for the course: Pathfinder in Korean, (Beginniners) Student book

Publishing company : Ewha Womans University Press,   ISBN : 978-89-7300-456-0 18710
 

Course Duration:      10 weeks, 2-hour session per week

Course Fee:               $ 290 for standard 10-week class

Upcoming Class:      

Saturday, 11 February 2012 from 11:00am-01:00pm *Open for Enrolment

Monday, 7 May 2012 from 06:30pm-08:30pm *5% discount if you enrol latest by the end of April

     

 

Korean for Pre-Intermediate 1

Who should take this class?

Learners who have the ability to understand simple sentences and want to improve in vocabulary and fluency.

Program

Week 1 Family relationships

Week 2 Talking about future travel plans & intentions

Week 3 Making bookings for hotel accommodation & restaurants

Week 4 Making telephone calls

Week 5 Making purchases

Week 6 More practice in telling the time - Dates

Week 7 Expressing likes and dislikes

Week 8 Talking about the quality of items

Week 9 Buying items at supermarkets and markets

Week 10 Reading & reconstructing two Korean stories

Week 11 Making polite requests

Week 12 Review

What's special about this course?

The fee includes:

  • Teaching materials (Book)
  • Free access and use of Korean materials (books, CDs, video, tapes) and newspaper at the school library ANYTIME DURING THE SCHOOL OPENING HOURS.
  • Free access to language exchange program at Sydney Language Solutions
  • Free newsletter to inform the learners about any Sydney-based activities relating to Korean language learning.

Expected Outcomes:

By the end of this course students will be able to expand their vocabulary and express their opinions in the following topics:

  • booking hotel or accommodation,
  • purchase clothes, flowers, shoes or houses
  • making a telephone call
  • Korean family relationship
  • expressing hobbies, likes and dislikes
  • reading Korean stories
  • making polite requests
  • describe an item and its quality
  • reviewing classifiers
  • building more complex sentence structure

Course Duration:  10 weeks, 2-hour session per week

Course Fee:          $ 320 for standard 10-week class

Upcoming Class:  Saturday, 5 May 2012 from 11:00am-01:00pm *5% discount if you enrol latest by the end of March

     

 

Korean for Pre-Intermediate 2 

Who should take this class?

Learners who have the ability to understand simple sentences and want to improve in vocabulary and fluency.

What's special about this course?

The fee includes:

  • Teaching materials (Book)
  • Free access and use of Korean materials (books, CDs, video, tapes) and newspaper at the school library ANYTIME DURING THE SCHOOL OPENING HOURS.
  • Free access to language exchange program at Sydney Language Solutions
  • Free newsletter to inform the learners about any Sydney-based activities relating to Korean language learning.

Course Duration:  10 weeks, 2-hour session per week

Course Fee:          $ 340 for standard 10-week class

Upcoming Class:  Wednesday, 21 March 2012 from 06:30-08:30pm *5% discount if you enrol latest by the end of February

     

 

Korean for Intermediate 1

Who should join this class?

Learners who have finished 80-100 hours of learning Korean

Learners understand Korean characters, can write Korean words and make conversations in Korean.

Learners want to learn more verbs, noun, vocabulary and improve in sentence structure and fluency. 

What's special about this course?

The fee includes: 

  • Teaching materials (Handouts)

  • Free access and use of Korean materials (books, CDs, video, tapes) and newspaper at the school library ANYTIME DURING THE SCHOOL OPENING HOURS.

  • Free access to Korean language exchange program at Sydney Language Solutions

  • Free newsletter to inform the learners about any Sydney-based activities relating to Korean language learning.

 Course Duration:  10 weeks, 2 hour session per week

 Course Fee:           $340 for standard 10-week class

 Upcoming class:  Thursday, 16 February 2012 from 06:30-08:30pm

     

 

Korean Skype Lesson

We also offer private Korean lessons via Skype

Lesson Time:

1) Monday-Friday 01:00-06:00PM

2) Saturday 10:00AM-06:00PM

Price List:

1 lesson------------ $70 (90 minutes)

5 lessons-----------$340 (450 minutes)

We are very flexible in any topics that you would like to learn.

Also, we can help your homework or train you with a specific exam, if you give us your material which you are studying currently.

Please send us your material which you would like to study AT LEAST 1 week in advance via e-mail/SCANNING to info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au

To book:

Please call 9283 9892 and book using your credit card or pay by Direct Deposit to our bank account. After that please email us to confirm info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au

Our Skype username: sydney.language.solutions

 

Recommended books

You can click on the picture to be directed to the bookstore website and buy the books

1. Read and Speak Korean (This book is useful for Korean Beginner 2, there are many game cards and activities, which are very facilitating to learning a new language)

 Read and Speak Korean for Beginners: The Easiest Way to Communicate Right Away!

2. Korean in a Flash - vol.1 (This set of 448 flashcards is very useful for reviewing and expand vocabulary in Korean language. It is suitable for Beginner and Preintermediate level)

 Korean in a Flash: v. 1

3. Your first 100 words in Korean (This book has a lot of activities and exercises to help learners at Beginner Level to memorise and review their first 100 words in Korean)

 Your First 100 Words in Korean (Your First 100 Words In!Series)