One-on-one Korean lessons run 80 minutes a week with a single instructor who builds the sequence around you, starting from an honest look at your current level. You can meet at our Costa Mesa institute, online from anywhere, or at a place of your choosing.
The usual package is eight 80-minute lessons at $800, or $100 a session, with a one-time $50 registration fee for new students. What you work on is set between you and your instructor, so the sessions follow your goals rather than a standard sequence. Tell us what you need and we will find the right match.
The Institute has taught in Southern California for over twenty years and works with more than 3,000 students a year. Here is what students say about learning with us.
$800 for eight lessons
Eight 80-minute sessions at $100 each, plus a one-time $50 registration fee for new students.
Native-speaking tutors
Credentialed tutors drawn from a roster of more than seventy, matched to your level and your goals.
Costa Mesa, with parking
600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B, next to South Coast Plaza and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
How a Private Korean Lesson Works
A package is eight 80-minute sessions. Students who already attend a group class here are welcome to book lessons individually rather than commit to the full eight, and that is the common choice when a specific deadline is driving it.
Your instructor sets the curriculum after talking with you about where you are and what you need. Someone learning enough to follow drama dialogue spends their time differently than a professional preparing for a transfer to Seoul, and neither has to sit through material they already know.
When One-on-One Makes More Sense Than a Class
The case for one-on-one Korean is that the curriculum is written for you. Your instructor sets the sequence after talking through your level and your goals, then adjusts it as those change, which is not something a fixed syllabus can do.
Speech levels are what sends students one-on-one. Hangul is the easy part of Korean and most learners read it within a few weeks, but choosing the right level of formality for the person in front of you is a judgment call that takes practice with someone correcting you directly.
Students with Korean-speaking family are the other common case. Someone who understands their grandparents but answers in English sits between class levels, and private lessons start wherever the gaps actually are.
Semi-Private Korean Lessons
Semi-private lessons are the option when you want to share the sessions with someone working at a similar level, which suits couples preparing for the same trip, coworkers who need the same workplace vocabulary, or a parent and child learning together. The curriculum still gets built around the people in the room rather than a fixed syllabus, and the cost per student comes down because the instructor’s time is shared. Call (714) 662-5400 to arrange one and to confirm Korean instructor availability.
What Private Korean Lessons Cost
Eight private lessons cost $800, and new students pay a one-time $50 registration fee. That package is the usual starting point rather than a fixed product, so tell us if a different number of sessions or a different lesson length fits your goals better, and semi-private lessons bring the cost per student down again.
A group Korean class runs $295 for an eight-week term and meets for 80 minutes a week alongside up to fourteen other students, so the private rate reflects an instructor’s full attention and a curriculum written for one person. Our pricing for group, private, and corporate programs lists every option side by side.
Who Your Korean Instructor Will Be
There are more than seventy instructors on our roster, and Korean is taught by native speakers whose English is strong enough to switch into when an explanation needs it. Credentials or advanced degrees and genuine teaching experience are what we hire on.
You will use the same university texts as the group classes, taken in whatever order serves you. Over twenty years in Southern California and more than 3,000 students a year is what makes a roster this size possible, and a roster this size is what makes one-on-one scheduling practical.
Korean Tutoring for Children and Teenagers
Private lessons are open to students of any age, which makes them the usual route for a child younger than our group class minimum or a teenager studying Korean alongside school. We do not run a children’s Korean group class, so one-on-one is how younger students learn here.
Tell us what the student is working toward and which materials they already use. The instructor builds the sessions around that rather than starting something separate.
Where Lessons Happen
Most students meet their instructor at our institute at 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B in Costa Mesa, where there is parking on site. Lessons also run online, which suits anyone whose commute or schedule makes a weekly drive difficult, and we can send an instructor to your home or office instead. Tell us which format you want when you get in touch.
Students come to us from across the county, including Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Tustin, Anaheim, Fountain Valley, and Orange. The online option puts the same instructors within reach wherever you happen to be.
Start Private Korean Lessons
Send us the form below and the office will take it from there. Someone reads every inquiry, talks through your level, your goals and the times you can meet, then matches you with an instructor who fits and confirms the schedule with you. Nothing is booked or charged at this stage, so you are free to ask what you like first.
If you would rather talk it through, call (714) 662-5400 Monday through Thursday from 10:30am to 9:00pm and Friday from 10:30am to 2:30pm, or email info@oclanguages.com. Students who already know what they want can go straight to the private lesson registration and payment form, and anyone still weighing the two formats can check the Korean group class schedule.
Common Questions
Answers to what students ask most before booking. Call (714) 662-5400 if yours is not here.
At the Orange County Lingual Institute, eight 80-minute private lessons cost $800, which works out to $100 a session, plus a one-time $50 registration fee for new students. Students already enrolled in a group class can buy lessons individually rather than in a package of eight.
That gap is common and it is one of the better reasons to take private lessons, because a class has to pick one level for everyone and a listener who does not speak fits neither the beginning nor the intermediate class cleanly.
Yes, and it tends to take up real time in private lessons. Which forms you need depends entirely on who you will be speaking to, so tell us that when you get in touch.
Yes. Students in a class can book individual lessons rather than a package of eight, which is a common way to work through one sticking point without leaving the class.
At our institute at 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite B in Costa Mesa, next to South Coast Plaza and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, with parking on site. Lessons can also be held online or at your own home or office.
Yes. Private Korean lessons run online as well as in person, with the same instructors and the same curriculum built around one student.