[KS] EPIK

Mark Patterson mgpatt at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 14:03:25 EDT 2009


I must concur: I have been taking the Korean classes at KF from a few
months now, and I find all the teachers there quite attentive and
enthusiastic, and—whether correlation means causation, I'll leave up
to you—young.

However the levels are not quite equal, I'm up to the last, fourth
level of the intermediate classes now, and there's nowhere else for me
to go besides one large single pool of the "advanced" class. The other
classes are ranked from Hangeul reading/writing, to four levels of
beginner and onto four levels of intermediate. But, it's all free. (As
in "beer", not "freedom".) You can't get any better than that.

For those in Korea who would like to know more detals of the classes,
here's the website:

http://www.kfcenter.or.kr/english/meet/01_read.asp?num=2274


-->Mark Patterson

Faculty of Asian Studies
Sejong University
Seoul, South Korea

> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:40:23 +0000
> From: liora donskoy <umsinai at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] EPIK
> To: <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> With all the difficulties in the Korean ESL industry a good word about the free Korean language classes of the Korea Foundation is a must in this discussion. While doing my fieldwork in Korea I attended the Korea Foundation English classes near downtown.  Most students were ESL teachers, and class levels ranged from beginners to "almost native" levels.  It was my feeling that (to phrase it gently) not all ESL instructors were interested in learning Korean, otherwise the classes would have had many students (which they did not have in 2007). Furthermore, almost anyone I know who applied for the intensive language classes in Universities in Korea received generous support.
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> Liora Sarfati
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> Ph.D. candidate
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> Indiana University
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