<p>Hey. I've heard from one or two people, but I thought I'd ask more. Does anyone here have experience with the Korean Language program?</p>
<p>What did you like about it?</p>
<p>What didn't you like about it?</p>
<p>While I enjoy KPop a little, it's only a super-tiny portion of why I might want to learn Korean. Too much pop culture in the class could be a bad thing, really. </p>
<p>If anyone has experience with more than just the first year or so, that's be a bonus. First year opinions are good too. </p>
<p>Details are key!</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>If you have information on the Japanese program, I would appreciate that as well. I’ve taken the first two years of Japanese at the community college level and plan to transfer to the UW. I plan to study Japanese and if possible, technical Japanese. Thanks.</p>
<p>I’ll be transferring into the Japanese program as well. I’ve heard nothing but overwhelmingly good things about the Japanese and Chinese programs. I’m asking about Korean as its a bit of an unknown to me.</p>
<p>My husband got his master’s in Japanese at UW. He loved the entire program from the professors to the classes. (He also sat in and audited some undergrad Japanese classes.)</p>
<p>He also took 2 years of Korean (his 5th learned language) at UW and didn’t love it. But he just ended up not liking the language as much as he thought. The teachers etc. were fine.</p>
<p>I took Korean 101 and stopped immediately after 1 quarter.</p>
<p>what I liked about the program: The TA & professor were wonderful, friendly, and incredibly nice. </p>
<p>What I didn’t like: The workload is ridiculous. During midterms we had 2 exams over the course of the week-week and a half period. Because UW is on a quarter system language classes are condensed and packed tighter with more material than learning a language in a semester school. That means vocab quizzes, oral exams, written tests, and assignments every week. And yes often you will have all 4 every single week. </p>
<p>Basically the Korean class kept me busier than when I took 20 credits. Another student, a grad student, told me that the class was keeping her busier than when she took 21 credits as an undergrad and worked part time. </p>
<p>So be warned if you decide to take Korean. The professor and TA’s are wonderful and nice, but the workload (as of 1 year ago at least) is crazy.</p>