Elementary (B1)
Longer conversations about work, renting a home, the hospital, relationships, advice and travel problems, with the shortcuts and soft endings of natural speech.
- 215 lessons
- About 12 lines each
- All decks: 2.7 MB
By the end of Elementary you will
- Follow longer conversations about work, renting, health, relationships and travel when people speak clearly.
- Understand advice, complaints, excuses and opinions, and the reasons behind them.
- Keep up with natural shortcuts: dropped subjects and particles, and softening endings such as -는데요, -거든요 and -잖아요.
All Elementary lessons
- Day 1 Zipper Broke on Day One
- Day 2 No Loan for Concert Tickets
- Day 3 Thin Walls, Loud Phone Calls
- Day 4 Coffee Spilled on the Laptop
- Day 5 Twenty Rejections and Counting
- Day 6 How to Tell Dad About Piano
- Day 7 Screenshot in the Wrong Chat
- Day 8 Asking the Outgoing Tenant
- Day 9 Grandpa Wants the Whole Village
- Day 10 Swam as a Kid, Forgot Everything
- Day 11 Phones Stay in the Living Room
- Day 12 Radio Panel on Blind Dates
- Day 13 Registering the Marriage After Lunch
- Day 14 Why Koreans Ask Your Age
- Day 15 My Brother Slept After Suneung
- Day 16 Grandma Wants to Leave Early
- Day 17 Late for the Wedding He's Hosting
- Day 18 Moving-Day Noodles Downstairs
- Day 19 Our Bus Changed Its Route
- Day 20 Grandma Doesn't Get Remote Work
- Day 21 Typhoon Grounds the Jeju Flight
- Day 22 So That's Where You Go Saturdays
- Day 23 Lost at the Rice Cake Stall
- Day 24 Song for Grandpa's Seventieth
- Day 25 Step Challenge Confessions
- Day 26 Candle Business in the Spare Room
- Day 27 All the Studios Went in August
- Day 28 Donating Toys, Except the Bear
- Day 29 Not Like on the Shopping Channel
- Day 30 Grandma Moves Into My Room
- Day 31 Parents' Thirtieth Anniversary Surprise
- Day 32 My Best Friend Changed Classes
- Day 33 First Time at the Climbing Gym
- Day 34 A Month Without the TV?
- Day 35 Studying or Gaming Upstairs?
- Day 36 Vitamins for a Cramming Grandson
- Day 37 Tteokbokki Not Allowed on the Ward
- Day 38 Gold Ring or Cash Gift?
- Day 39 A Letter From Downstairs
- Day 40 Wallet Left at the Rest Stop
- Day 41 Team Lunch for a Vegetarian
- Day 42 Sister Has a Secret Boyfriend
- Day 43 Pep Talk on the KTX
- Day 44 Piggy Bank Reaches Fifty Thousand
- Day 45 Night Bus or Taxi After Midnight
- Day 46 Missed the Scholarship Deadline
- Day 47 Reverse Culture Shock From Berlin
- Day 48 Our Teacher Is Getting Married
- Day 49 Is My New Room as Big?
- Day 50 A Text From 'Your Son'
- Day 51 Another Hobby, More Gear
- Day 52 Have You Eaten, Professor Asks
- Day 53 Ice Cream Promise at the Clinic
- Day 54 Overtime Ruins Date Night Again
- Day 55 Bus Arrival App for Grandma
- Day 56 Cat Sitter Cancels Before the Trip
- Day 57 The Rice Cooker Stopped Talking
- Day 58 A Thousand Paper Cups by Mistake
- Day 59 Salad Shop Owner Lost Twenty Kilos
- Day 60 The No-Spend Week Challenge
- Day 61 Grandpa Checks the Water Pressure
- Day 62 Canadian Friend Wants a Farm Stay
- Day 63 Briquette Delivery or Poster Duty
- Day 64 Roses for a Hundred Days
- Day 65 Dad Picks Up the Rice Cakes
- Day 66 Our Sons Stopped Playing Together
- Day 67 Only Thirty Wedding Guests
- Day 68 Afternoon Off Before the Certificate Exam
- Day 69 First Job Offer, Grandpa's Pride
- Day 70 My Old Teacher at the Counter
- Day 71 Brother Starts Military Service
- Day 72 Washing Machine at 2 A.M.
- Day 73 Texting First, Every Single Time
- Day 74 Cutting the Winter Heating Bill
- Day 75 Lost in the Hospital Lobby
- Day 76 Mom Hooked on Live Shopping
- Day 77 Dad's Saxophone After Dinner
- Day 78 Stress Rash Before Sister's Wedding
- Day 79 First Part-Time Job at Sixteen
- Day 80 Salty Soup and Ten Thousand Steps
- Day 81 Dad Joins a Band at Sixty
- Day 82 Library Card Needs Mom's ID
- Day 83 Suitcase Wheel Snapped Off
- Day 84 Best Gukbap Near Busan Station
- Day 85 The Flat Above the Restaurant
- Day 86 Radio Special on Suneung Eve
- Day 87 The Crossing Guard Grandpa
- Day 88 YouTube Repair Made It Worse
- Day 89 My Baby Brother's First-Birthday Grab
- Day 90 She Always Cancels Last Minute
- Day 91 Transfer Offer to Busan
- Day 92 Subway Delay on Presentation Day
- Day 93 Texting the New Boss Politely
- Day 94 Flower Girl Nerves
- Day 95 Packing the Old Wedding Dishes
- Day 96 Kimjang Lesson at the Welfare Centre
- Day 97 Helping Dad Practise for an Interview
- Day 98 Sleepless After a Falling-Out
- Day 99 Detour to the Dinosaur Museum
- Day 100 Arrived After the Doors Closed
- Day 101 Strawberry Bingsu Sold Out
- Day 102 Quitting After Three Months?
- Day 103 Homeshare With a Retired Teacher
- Day 104 Proposing by the Han River
- Day 105 Broken Wrist at the Skate Park
- Day 106 Names in Red Ink
- Day 107 Rice Cake Cake for Grandma
- Day 108 The Dog Barks All Day
- Day 109 Opened Box, No Refund?
- Day 110 Take a Number for Passports
- Day 111 Flat Tyre on the Sokcho Road
- Day 112 First Time Donating Blood
- Day 113 Dad Keeps Skipping His Check-Up
- Day 114 Opening a Bank Account at Seventeen
- Day 115 Bowling Instead of a Team Dinner
- Day 116 Cracked Screen, Split the Bill
- Day 117 Who Catches the Bouquet?
- Day 118 Balloons for Baby Sister's Party
- Day 119 The Cat Rides With Us
- Day 120 Hyehwa Station, Wrong Direction
- Day 121 Dead Phones in Gyeongju
- Day 122 Package at the Wrong Door
- Day 123 After School at Grandma's Side-Dish Shop
- Day 124 Friend Copies All My Homework
- Day 125 Closing-Time Discounts at the Supermarket
- Day 126 Table Tennis Class Fills Fast
- Day 127 Singing at Jiyeon's Wedding
- Day 128 Renovation Next Door at Grandpa's
- Day 129 Class Gift Politely Refused
- Day 130 Moving Out of the Goshiwon
- Day 131 Hurt His Back Moving Flowerpots
- Day 132 Earbud Died in a Week
- Day 133 Engraving the Couple Rings
- Day 134 Dibs on My Brother's Room
- Day 135 Interviewing Dad the Firefighter
- Day 136 Breakfast Is Not Coffee
- Day 137 Angry Client, Late Delivery
- Day 138 Back to Work After Ten Years
- Day 139 Mother's Sikhye Recipe
- Day 140 Teacher Explains Chuseok Etiquette
- Day 141 Tree-Planting Date on Arbor Day
- Day 142 Motion Sickness on the Express Bus
- Day 143 Recycling Rules Explained Twice
- Day 144 Lost Bag at the Police Box
- Day 145 New Kid at the Corner Shop
- Day 146 TV Debate on Lavish First Birthdays
- Day 147 Weddings Were Longer in Our Day
- Day 148 Joining a Han River Running Crew
- Day 149 The Smartwatch Said 150
- Day 150 How Does DIY Tteokbokki Work?
- Day 151 Help Wanted at the Dumpling Shop
- Day 152 Booking a Portrait for Grandparents
- Day 153 Grandma Plays Matchmaker
- Day 154 Almost Bought the Limited Sneakers
- Day 155 Job Shadowing at a TV Station
- Day 156 Calling In From the Hospital Bed
- Day 157 Driving Test, Second Attempt
- Day 158 The 6 A.M. Running Plan
- Day 159 Parents Split on Grad School
- Day 160 Headphones for the Night Gamer
- Day 161 Recommendation for Overseas Volunteering
- Day 162 Too Many Parcels at Reception
- Day 163 Passport Left at the Osaka Hotel
- Day 164 Fight After the Basketball Game
- Day 165 Checking the Lease Line by Line
- Day 166 Husband Makes the Seollal Dumplings
- Day 167 No Seats at the Study Café
- Day 168 Free Subway Ride, Crowded Carriage
- Day 169 Startup Internship or Big Company?
- Day 170 How to Stop the Pipes Freezing
- Day 171 My Classmate From Vietnam
- Day 172 Two Files Named 'Final'
- Day 173 Drone Stuck in a Pine Tree
- Day 174 Field Trip Lunchbox Left Behind
- Day 175 Paid Twice by Accident
- Day 176 Where Should a New Hire Live?
- Day 177 Hosting Chuseok for the First Time
- Day 178 Photographer for Sunbae's Baby
- Day 179 Which Fish Is in Season?
- Day 180 Knitting Scarves for the Care Home
- Day 181 Pets Allowed, Wallpaper Not
- Day 182 How Much Goes in the Envelope?
- Day 183 The Group Member Who Vanished
- Day 184 TV Doctors on ER Crowding
- Day 185 Health Certificate for a New Job
- Day 186 Leave Request for Girlfriend's Birthday
- Day 187 Haggling at the Flea Market
- Day 188 A Model Ship for Dad
- Day 189 Late-Night Music Under My Flat
- Day 190 No More Cola, Dad
- Day 191 Sticker for Throwing Out a Sofa
- Day 192 KTX Stops Between Stations
- Day 193 A Friend Asks to Borrow Money
- Day 194 Superhero Costume to a Wedding?
- Day 195 Painting a Mural on Company Time
- Day 196 Voice Profiles for a Dating App
- Day 197 Too Tired From the Footsteps Upstairs
- Day 198 Subway Advice on Jeonse Deposits
- Day 199 Our Suitcase Never Came Out
- Day 200 Blood Pressure Monitor for Her Husband
- Day 201 Mom's Retirement Party at the Café
- Day 202 Getting Paid to Walk
- Day 203 Picking a Chuseok Gift Set
- Day 204 Projector Dies Before the Pitch
- Day 205 Home From Cataract Surgery
- Day 206 Getting Ready for the Exchange Student
- Day 207 First Job, Old Teacher's Advice
- Day 208 Grandma Tries Dawn Delivery
- Day 209 Snow Day School Bus
- Day 210 Class President Speech Tips
- Day 211 Company Hiking Club at Dawn
- Day 212 Maths Test With a Stomachache
- Day 213 Last Latte Before Moving Away
- Day 214 First-Birthday Lunch in the Back Room
- Day 215 Registering Our New Address
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