The complete free course
How to Learn English
A full course in one page, built for Korean speakers: the sounds that don’t exist in Korean, the grammar that actually matters, survival phrases, the method, a roadmap, and every free resource you need. Ten years of school English finally put to work — no paywall, no fluff.
What to expect
If you grew up in Korea, you have already spent something like ten years on English — and you can read a contract but not order a coffee without rehearsing it first. That is not a talent problem. School English trained reading and grammar rules and almost nothing else: no real listening, no speaking, no sound system. You built exactly half a language.
Here is the honest good news: the half you have is the slow, boring half — thousands of half-known words and a grammar map. The half you are missing (sounds, listening, speaking) responds fast to the right practice. Fixing the sound system takes weeks. Comfortable everyday conversation takes roughly 12–24 months at 30–90 minutes a day. English and Korean are about as distant as two languages get — anyone selling you “fluent in 3 months” is selling you something.
What actually moves the needle is boringly consistent: daily contact with real English, steady vocabulary reactivation, and regular practice producing the language with a human who corrects you. Not another grammar book. The rest of this course is the details of doing that well — starting with the sounds, right now.
Useful from day one:
- EF SET — take the free 50-minute test once, so you know your real starting level
- r/EnglishLearning — an active learner community for the questions this course doesn’t answer
The rest of the course is free for beta testers
The remaining 18 chapters — the sound system, rhythm and linking, starter grammar, numbers, survival phrases, Konglish traps, the study method, the roadmap and the full resource library — unlock the moment you sign up for the CoffeeTalk beta. Takes about 30 seconds, and it’s free.