Korean Lower Intermediate - Level 3

The Korean Lower Intermediate Level 3 course will take your skills to the next level - helping you speak more naturally, confidently and fluently in real-life situations.

You’ll move beyond the basics and start expressing yourself with ease - chatting about hobbies and daily routines, sharing experiences, making suggestions, and navigating situations like travel, shopping and directions.

Along the way, you’ll unlock powerful new grammar to build richer, more natural sentences - expressing intentions, wishes, opinions and reasons while linking ideas smoothly and clearly.

By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident holding longer conversations, handling everyday scenarios in Korean, and engaging with the language in a more authentic and meaningful way.

Who is it for?

This course is ideal if you already have a foundation in Korean. You may have completed our Korean Elementary course or studied elsewhere for around 120 hours.

Timetable

The Korean Lower Intermediate course includes 60 hours of online learning and is taught across three modules

Benefits

• Delivered by a qualified Korean speaker
• Interactive and varied learning techniques
• Awarded a City St George’s, University of London certificate.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Introduce yourself
• Talk about weekend routines, hobbies and experiences
• Make, accept and decline suggestions
• Describe how frequently of doing something
• Buy and exchange items
• Recommend travel destinations
• Express wishes
• Arrange travel
• Send a letter/parcel and exchange money
• Find your way and round and give directions
• Express sympathy
• Explain a situation
• Give information and enquire.

Grammatical structures

• Intentive connective -려고 ‘intending to….’
• Optional connective -(이)나 (between nouns) ‘or’
• Optional connective -거나 (between clauses/sentences)‘or’
• Nominalisation using -는 것 ‘…ing’
• ‘To know and not know how to…’ -(으)ㄹ 줄 알다/모르다
• Noun modifier in past tense  -(으)ㄴ
• Noun modifier in future/prospective -(으)ㄹ
• The long negation -지 않다
• ‘To have experience of …ing’ -어/아 봤다
• Clausal connective -(으)ㄴ데/ 는데 ‘and/but’
• Sentence patterns with modifier clause -는/(으)ㄴ 것 같다
• ‘it seems that…(present/past)’
• Comparative -보다 ‘rather than’
• Expressing wishes/hopes -었/았으면 좋겠다 ‘it would be good if…’
• Asking opinions using -(으)ㄹ까요?
• Causal connective -(으)니까 ‘because/since’
• Sequential connective -고 나서 ‘after doing/having done something’
• Instrumental particle -(으)로 ‘with; by’
• Irregular verbs (르)
• ‘It would be ok/enough/sufficient to…’ --(으)면 되다
• Sentence patterns with modifier clause -(으)ㄹ 것 같다 ‘it seems that..’ (future/prospective)
• Oblique question ending -(으)ㄴ/는지 with 알다/모르다 ‘to know/not know whether…’
• ‘If you intend to/want to…’ -(으)려면
• Sequential connective -다가
• Intentional future -겠
• ‘To do something completely (regret/relief)’ -어/아 버리다
• (The time) when -(으)ㄹ 때
• Sentence ending with -(으)ㄴ/는데요
• ‘In the middle of…’ -는 중이다
• Dubitative/ polite question -(으)ㄴ가요?/ -는가요?
• ‘Only’ Noun -밖에

You will receive a Certificate of Completion from City St George’s, University of London, along with a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile.

To qualify, you must attend at least 70% of classes.

Teaching

Classes are highly interactive and include:

• Small group work and role-play
• Listening to audio materials (e.g. radio clips)
• Reading articles and texts
• Watching video content
• Digital learning tools to support your progress.

You’ll also explore  Korean culture, current affairs and traditions alongside language learning.

It is the right level if you have either:

• completed our Korean Elementary course or equivalent
• studied formally for 120 hours or more.

Please do reach out to our team if you’re not sure which level is right for you.

Additional requirements

To enrol onto the Lower Intermediate Korean course, you must:

• be age 18 or over
• have basic IT skills and a reliable internet connection to access lessons and course materials.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.