Course · 15 days · Intermediate
Webtoon Reading & Slang
A reading course for webtoons in Korean: how a vertical scroll is laid out, casual dialogue as it is written in bubbles, the sound and feeling words drawn into the panels, the genres and their vocabulary, and a method for reading on your own.
Days 1 to 3 are open now, free and with no account. All 15 days are written; days 4 to 15 will be part of the paid plans, which are not open yet. About 12 minutes a day. After daily day 20 or so.
A day is marked done when you pass its quiz at the end: get 5 of its 8 questions right.
Unit 1 · How a webtoon reads
✓Day 1Panels, bubbles and episodes말풍선, 내레이션, 화 and 회차: how a vertical scroll is read.✓Day 2Casual speech on the page반말 as it is written in bubbles: 뭐야, 진짜, 어떡해.✓Day 3Sound words쾅, 탁, 똑똑, 쨍그랑: the sound effects drawn into the panels.✓Day 4Words for how things look and feel반짝반짝, 두근두근, 멍 and 부들부들.Pro · soon✓Day 5Spelling as it is saidWritten-down speech: 뭐해, 어케, 쫌 and why the spelling bends.Pro · soon Unit 2 · Characters' voices
✓Day 6School stories선배, 후배, 반장, 쌤 and the school day.Pro · soon✓Day 7Office stories대리님, 부장님, 야근 and 퇴근.Pro · soon✓Day 8Fantasy and action각성, 레벨업, 던전 and 헌터: the loanwords of the genre.Pro · soon✓Day 9Romance설레다, 썸, 고백 and 심쿵.Pro · soon✓Day 10Comedy and reaction facesㅋㅋ, ;;, 헐, 띠용 and the drawn faces that go with them.Pro · soon Unit 3 · Reading on your own