Korean/Writing lessons plan

This is a plan for propadeutic (preparatory) lessons teaching the student the Korean script and its pronunciation (including letter combinations). The goal is to introduce letters one by one so as not to overwhelm the student. In order to raise his confidence and provide feelings of success, words used for illustration and exercises shall mostly be understandable without any knowledge of Korean: Korean words that come from English, Korean words that other languages adopted, common transliterations of English personal names and names of countries or places whose name is not very different in Korean.

The student is assumed to have no previous knowledge of Korean. Each lesson will teach a few letters and then give some words from this list in order to practise reading. Upon successfully recognising all the letters of a word, he should be able to recognise the word itself. For example, "가나" is recognizable because it's so similar to the English words "Ghana". "독일" is not recognizable because the English word is "Germany" and doesn't resemble the Korean transliteration.

A list of recognizable Korean words has already been created below. Feel free to add more recognizable words to the list in order to help find a suitable order of letters and to provide material for more exercises.

Complete lessons

Incomplete lessons

Lesson 6

doubled letters, remaining diphthongs

Botswana 보츠와나
Paraguay 파라과이
Ottawa 오타와
Nicaragua 니카라과
Guam 괌
Uruguay 우루과이
Sears Tower 시어스 타워
Quebec 퀘벡
Ecuador 에콰도르
Malawi 말라위
Norway 노르웨이
Rwanda 르완다
Sweden 스웨덴
Switzerland 스위스
Tunisia 튀니지
Zimbabwe 짐바브웨
Brussels 브뤼셀
Gwangju 광주 (alternatively: Kwangju)
Washington 워싱턴
sandwich 샌드위치
shower 샤워
sweater 스웨트
taekwondo 태권도
walkman 워크맨
Won 원 (Korean currency)
Broadway 브로드웨이
SsangYong 쌍용
New Brunswick 뉴브런즈윅
Prince Edward Island 프린스에드워드아일랜드
Delaware 델라웨어
Hawaii 하와이
Iowa 아이오와
Washington 워싱턴
West Virginia 웨스트버지니아
Wisconsin 위스콘신
Wyoming 와이오밍

Summary

table showing all letters, summary of all rules, extra words for practise