🇰🇷 Born and raised in Korea
📍 Lived in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 Växjö, Sweden 🇸🇪 and Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
💄 Influencer for Korean make-up brands 👄
🎥 Previously worked on Art Director team for Korean music videos 🕺
☕️ Coffee shop owner in Korea 🍰
👩🏻🎨 How learning Korean with Handa boosts your creativity! 🎨
Have you ever found that you wanted to learn Korean in fun ways but you did not have the right methods or tutor? It’s time to find some fun appealing methods to improve your Korean with Handa!
My teaching experience taught me that most students become more inspired and motivated if they can create themselves and experience cultural diversity. Creative work in my class can lead to genuine communication and acquiring real Korean culture. Students will learn and use Korean to do the creative task, so they use it as a tool, in its original function. This prepares learners for using Korean instrumentally outside the classroom as well.
👩🎨 2022 Special Discussion Course 🖼
An important trick to learning a language easier and quickly is to take it out of the study-heavy approach and put into the entertainment section. Even if you’re learning Korean out of necessity, treat it as an entertaining adventure! To make learning Korean interesting, bring in some resources that you actually enjoy. Here are special topics for you.
⚠️ Culture Gap ‼️
I love tattoos but why can’t I tell my parents about this!
✔️Are tattoos acceptable in Korea?
✔️ Why you can’t smoke or drink in front of elders
✔️ Why ‘100days’ is a big deal in Korea?
✔️ Unique Korean behaviours
✔️ Common expat complaints about life in Korea
✔️ Korean superstitions that foreigners should know about
✔️ Why Koreans say’ we/our’ so much
💄 Beauty & appearance 💅🏻
Korean society tends to be more looks-focused than many other countries. – there is an emphasis on being polished in appearance.
✔️ Do Korean men really wear makeup? Yes!
✔️ Why are Korean beauty standards so high and obsessed with skinny body
✔️ Korean couples dress in matching twins outfits
✔️ Dress humbly at Korean weddings!
☕️ Cafe & Social life 🍰
Cafes are becoming a growing influence on how Koreans socialise. What cafes mean to Korean people? Let’s find out!
✔️ Why Korean people love cafe
✔️ Themed & unique cafes that are too awesome to resist in Korea
✔️ Where are the trendiest places in Seoul and what are current popular craze in Korea 🌀
✔️ Top 5 days of offering money as gifts on social relationships
👩🏻🎨 Art 🖼
Creative tasks enrich your learning journey, and they make it more fun and more enjoyable by tapping into individual talents, ideas and thoughts. And since language learning boosts your creativity, the more you learn a language, the better you’ll get at coming up with creative ideas for Korean learning.
✔️ Express yourself using arts (Drawing, poems, photography, music etc.)
✔️ Who are some Korean artists (music, movies, arts, literature etc.)
✔️ Dating artists (Let’s talk about famous artists and their artwork)
📈 Handa’s Korean Course Plan
🟡 For Beginners
✔️ Learning the Korean characters and alphabet (한글)
✔️ Practicing how to read and speak
✔️ Basic and simple phrases
✔️ General knowledge about Korea
🟠 For Intermediate students
✔️ Learning honorific expressions and colloquial language
✔️ Practicing speaking
✔️ Useful and practical vocabularies, grammar and expressions
✔️ Natural conversation
✔️ Pronunciation and accent training
🔴 For Advanced students
✔️ Discussing various topics and learning topical phrases
✔️ Unique Korean words with no English translation
✔️ Learning advanced vocabularies and phrases in real life
✔️ Correcting minor linguistic errors and tendencies
✔️ Training conversational skills
🗣 Conversational Korean
◽️ Develop conversational confidence
◽️ Learn how to talk about any topic
◽️ Fluent speech with new expressions, idioms and slang
◽️ Correct pronunciation and accent reduction
◽️ Pauses and fillers
💁🏻♀️ General Korean for Adults
🔸 Personalised lessons based on your need
🔸 Grammar, vocabulary and phonics at all levels
🔸 Accuracy and fluency in speech
🔸 Improved listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
🔸 Cultural advice and guidelines
👧🏻 General Korean for Kids 💕
🔸 Fun interactive lessons with different materials
🔸 Building confidence and learning how to express oneself through verbal activities
🔸 Grammar, vocabulary and phonics at all levels
🔸 Improved listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
📚 Methods and materials 🎵
🔸We will have fun with interactive materials like story books, drawings, quizzes, letters, music and films.
🔸 The topics of the lessons will be customized to your interests and hobbies
🔸 We will focus on Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. New vocabulary, grammar and phrases will be introduced in each lesson.
🔸 We will improve your confidence in spoken Korean in a friendly and relaxed environment
🔸 I will provide worksheets and feedback after each lesson
🔸 Homework is optional and can be included into the course plan if you prefer it
🔸 I am always available with quick replies to any follow-up questions you may have
👩🏻🏫 Teaching qualifications
🔸Qualified Korean Teacher (Certified at Level 2 from National institute of Korean language)
🔸Experience in direct Korean translation (Translator and Cultural advisor for foreign investors in Seoul and Berlin
🔸Expertise in teaching Art to students aged 5-12 years (Worked in Gemeinschaftsunterkunft in Berlin, Germany / Gyeonggi Arts Center, Gwacheon Foundation for Arts and Culture in Korea)
※ Class rules ※
• Students must attend classes on time.
• Students must cancel 12 hours before class if they are unable to attend class.
• If you are absent from class, you will be charged the full class.
• Students will be canceled if they are more than 10 minutes late and the student will not receive a refund