Students are also expected to write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures introduced. Able to maintain a variety of uncomplicated conversations. Produces strings or lists of sentences, though speech still does not feature the cohesion or length of a paragraph. Improved accuracy in basic constructions and use of high frequency verbals and auxiliaries. Able to understand main ideas and some details of simple connected written texts, such as advertisements.
Reader has an ample vocabulary base and is able to infer meaning from most unknown vocabulary.
Understanding is consistent. Able to write communications expressing simple feelings and desires, reporting on current activities, and asking for information. Writing is best defined as a collection of discrete sentences. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught during the Korean 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A and 2B courses. Students in this course will learn high-intermediate level of standard modern Korean in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as expand their cultural understanding.