Do you have a fascination with Korea or the Korean language? Do you want to move to South Korea? Or boost your knowledge or career prospects? There are so many reasons to learn Korean, and what better destination than actually travelling to Korea to study!
Learn Korean in South Korea
Schools in Korea offer unique language program that are designed to immerse students in Korean through class instruction, after-class personal tutoring and language exchange with native speakers.
Accelerated teaching methods allow participants at lower proficiency levels to acquire the language skills needed for effective communication entirely in Korean in a short period of time, and intermediate students to gain the proficiency to express themselves at an advanced level within their future or current professional field.
There are two key factors that enable students to succeed in their studies; its superb class-sizes and the personal content system.
Most schools have an average class-size of only three students per teacher, and a maximum class-size of six. This student-teacher ratio is about twice that of what most other private institutions offer, and five times that of universities.
This allows schools faculty to follow each student closely and tailor classes to skill-levels, goals and rates of language acquisition. This means that no student finds themselves in a position where classes are moving too fast to assimilate their content, or too slow, so that they are unable to make the most of their time as a language student in China.
What makes some schools truly unique is the ability to focus students studies on the reasons they had for learning Korean in the first place.
When language students enroll, an individual study plan is usually first formed. The faculty then creates a personal Korean textbook aimed specifically at their hobbies and professional ambitions.
The jargon of a person’s hobbies and professional life is simultaneously one of the most important aspects of any language, and one of the least studied. It is the least studied because you can’t teach personalized content to a large group of students. This is why every week students sit down with a personal tutor for five hours to enable them to use Korean in the settings they envision to.
Is it Difficult to Learn Korean?
As soon as you know the basic vocabulary it is only a matter of time you can start using Korean in natural conversation settings.
Relevance is key to learning a language. The more meaning the material has students as individuals, the more solid the foundation that the new syntax and vocabulary is built upon. With tailor-made content, customized to each person, language students reach a point where they can communicate at an increasingly advanced level sooner.
Furthermore, because practice and fundamental understanding is intrinsically emphasized by personal content, students retain the knowledge gained from studies in the long term, at a level that is also not possible without individualized material.
It is this separation of general and personal content, combined with small class sizes, which holds the key to effective and intensive Korean language studies.
Popular Places to Study
Most languages schools are located in the larger cities including:
- Seoul
- Busan
- Incheon
- Daegu
- Daejeon
- Gwangju
- Suwon-si
- Goyang-si
- Seongnam-si
- Ulsan
Activities and Free Time
Most schools work on the basis that if students enjoy their spare time, they will also enjoy their language studies more… and in South Korea there is something for everyone to enjoy.
There are so many sightseeing excursions and extra-curricular cultural activities, such as seminars, workshops and classes.
Are you interested in learning how to cook real Korean food? Want to become a calligraphy brush master? How about going to a theme park?