A3 할게요

I received a call from SKS yesterday. The school's administrator, Victoria, confirmed that Advanced 3 Course is going happened in the coming semester which starts next week. Five students have signed up for the course, just nice to make a class. Although it is the first time A3 is offered in SKS, strictly speaking, it is not a new course. It covers chapter 5-8 of Kyunghee's Intermediate 2 textbook which are similarly covered in former A2 Course. Old students of SKS need not rush back to sign up for the course as there is nothing new about it except the course title.

A3 will be my last Korean language course in SKS and perhaps in Singapore. There is unlikely any higher level course beyond this point. It will be my "graduating" course although I am sure there won't be any graduation ceremony at the end. Singapore is quite unlike Korea where they have opening and closing ceremony for all sort of courses. Almost after 3 years, I am finally going to "graduate" but I am quite reluctant to meet the end so soon. Even before the start of A3, I am already missing class as if I have already completed it. My thought seems to have travelled ahead in time.

With or without class, learning should still continue, so I am going to recommend a Korean grammar book. The "Korean Grammar for International Learners" was first introduced by our A1 teacher, Ms Jang, who found this book at Kyobo bookstore while she was back in Korea early this year to celebrate Seollal and her father's 60th birthday . The 442-pages book authored by Ihm Ho Bin, Hong Kyung Pyo and Chang Suk In is published by the reputed Yonsei University Press. You probably won't find another book that gives such a comprehensive coverage of Korean grammars in English. My only gripe about this book is that grammars are generally not explained with enough depth. But lack of a better alternative, this book will still be of great help to Korean language learners. In fact, everyone in my class is in possession of this book. I can't remember how much I paid for the book. I think it is either 15,000won or 20,000won but more likely to be 15,000won.