안녕하세요!

That's one of the phrases I learned in my first day of Korean I.
We had two hours of Modern Standard Korean followed by two hours of Practical language skills. Both lessons focused on the Korean script Hangul, or 한글. Our homework for next week is to memorize so that we can pronounce, read, write and romanize in Korean. For romanization we use the McCune–Reischauer romanization, which is good for second language learners but not widely used by native speakers.

So mostly we practiced Hangul, but we also learned to say How are you? My name is Anna. I'm from Sweden.



Can't write yet though. I should start practicing.

Korean I 30 ECTS credits

I just recently got accepted into Korean I. It's a 30 ECTS credits course divided into 4 smaller courses. These are Introductory course in Korean language and culture, Practical Language Skills, and Modern standard Korean 1 and 2. Most of the courses run parallel at some time. According to the curriculum completion of Korean I should result in the following:

- Basic knowledge of Korean modern history, culture and society

- Unhindered command of Hangul

- Grammar and vocabulary to functionally communicate in a simple everyday setting

Yesterday I became a Korean-language student

I got interested in Korean kind of backwards. I have no previous experience other than being able to imitate Japanese with a Korean accent, as I'm bilingual in Japanese. When I was younger I would sometimes mistake Korean for Japanese until I realized I didn't recognize any words or morphemes. That is the first reason I got interested in Korean. Many years later I was an exchange student in Japan. I was surprised by students from South Korea because they were so good in Japanese. Many of them sound native in every aspect (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation). I've also come across some Korean popular culture in TV dramas, comics and music. Since I first saw Korean script I thought it was beautiful and wanted to learn how to write it. So yesterday I became a Korean-language student.