When I set out to design Korean Uncovered, my main aim was
to set it apart from every other Korean course. The way
I've done that is to base the entire course around a
story, and, in fact, the course syllabus itself emerges
from the story.
Let me explain...
Most Korean courses are structured by taking a bunch of
grammar rules, putting them together in a certain order,
then teaching them to you one-by-one in a series of
lessons. This is dull, and ineffective. In this course, we
do things differently. In this course, you learn through
'StoryLearning'. This means you focus on relaxing,
reading, and enjoying the plot of the story. The 'serious
study' happens another way!
Rather than teaching you through a process of grammar
rules, followed by tests, here's what we do instead.
First, our Korean teacher makes sure you see the grammar
being used naturally in the story itself. This way, you
get to learn how it works in a natural way. Second, you
discover the rules by yourself... with a little help from
the teacher! Story first. Rules later. This makes learning
much more effective.
This means you get to enjoy learning Korean first and
foremost, rather than get bogged down in technicalities
from the start. (Yes... it's fun!)
Doesn't that sound more exciting than your last textbook?
At every stage of the course, you’ll be immersed in real
Korean - both the written story and the audiobook. This
means that by the time you finish the course, not only
will you have read an entire book in Korean, but you’ll
have a large vocabulary, so you can express yourself fully
in conversation. You will also have had many hours of
listening practice, so that following spoken Korean will
be effortless.