Intermediate Korean — B1–B2, from TOPIK 3 to TOPIK 4
Twenty-six lessons take you from the end of A2 to a confident B2. You will pass on what people said, sound natural instead of textbook-correct, handle Korean offices, banks and workplaces, read news written in 한다체, and argue a point in speech and in writing.
Which level is this? Lessons 1–14 cover TOPIK level 3 (≈ CEFR B1) and lessons 15–26 cover TOPIK level 4 (≈ CEFR B2) — the grade 3–4 content of the National Institute of Korean Language's international standard curriculum, the stage language institutes call 3급–4급. Lesson 26 prepares you for TOPIK II.
Before you start: you should be comfortable with everything in the A1–A2 course — particles, -아요/어요 in every tense, honorific -(으)시-, irregular verbs, the basic connectors and noun modifiers. Your progress here is tracked separately.
Lessons 1–14. Switch between speech styles, report speech, guess and infer, use the nuance endings, give reasons and conditions, link events in time — and handle life and work in Korea.
Lessons 15–26. Passive and causative verbs, the retrospective -더-, hypotheticals, humble speech, written style and news, opinion writing, Sino-Korean roots, idioms, real-world Korean and TOPIK II.
Intermediate companions — separate from the A1–A2 ones.