Overview
This Korean - Beginners Conversation course offered by University of Oxford is designed for learners with a basic knowledge of Korean who wish to strengthen their speaking and listening abilities in everyday situations. Through interactive tasks, guided conversations, role-plays, multimedia resources, and feedback, participants build confidence in using Korean for day-to-day communication while improving pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical accuracy.
Key Facts
The course explores common situations such as daily routines, eating out, future plans, holidays, weather, seasons, festivals, transportation, and travel. Learners practice asking and answering questions, making requests, expressing preferences, and giving directions while reinforcing key grammar structures including tense usage, sentence formation, particles, frequency expressions, and irregular verb patterns. The programme also introduces cultural etiquette and practical language use in real-world contexts.Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Talking About Everyday Life
- Ordering Food and Discussing Meals
- Future Plans and Holiday Planning
- Weather, Seasons and Festivals
- Transportation and Travel
- Present, Past and Future Tenses
- Sentence Structure and Word Order
- Korean Particles
- Adverbs of Frequency
- Irregular Korean Verbs
- Asking and Providing Information
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
The new start dates are to be determined. You can sign up on the waiting list on the university website.
Language
Delivered
Campus Location
- Oxford, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Asian studies View 53 other Short Courses in Asian studies in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Recommended requirements:
Completed Oxford’s Korean Beginners Part 1 and Part 2
Studied Korean for two terms or about one year
Reached or be close to A1 level in Korean (CEFR)
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents190 GBP / full≈ 190 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents190 GBP / full≈ 190 GBP / full
Living costs
Oxford
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.