If you are looking for a great Korean teacher on italki, Dylan is the top choice! From the start, I felt comfortable and at ease in his classes. I built a solid foundation in the Korean language at a pace that was comfortable for me. Dylan takes time to make sure you understand the material and answers any questions you may have. I never felt discouraged or embarrassed in these classes. If I struggled with pronunciation, concepts, or word choice, Dylan would kindly explain things and steer me in the right direction so that I would understand. I was given plenty of options to practice concepts and speak both in class and on my own. This helped me develop confidence in my sentence construction and conversation skills. I feel like I am really understanding and progressing in learning Korean. I wouldn’t have been able to do that without his help so I am very thankful.

I cannot believe I have been studying with Dylan for over a year now! Studying with Dylan every lesson we do a new journal entry and this has been a great way to track my progress over the last year. My Korean has improved so much over the last year I cannot believe it. If you are thinking of booking a lesson with Dylan for either learning korean for the long term or just a few lessons you will not be disappointed! Learning Korean with Dylan has been so much fun and something I look forward to every week!

I really do get the Dylan hype now, I see us working together well!

I have been studying Korean with Dylan for more than a year. I had no prior experience with an Asian language, and while I had learned other non-Roman alphabets for work reasons, I was truly at ground zero when we began. Dylan has patiently and methodically guided me from learning the alphabet to conjugating verbs in different tenses to forming simple sentences to reading elementary texts to improving my auditory processing. I appreciate Dylan's flexibility as some days he must pivot and review a previous grammar point with me rather than moving onto a new topic. I also admit to being a challenging student due to my age and profession yet he is always upbeat, professional, and prepared with engaging, structured, and creative lessons and homework.

I really enjoy my classes with Dylan. So far, I've taken 25 lessons with him. Our classes are structured as follows: talking about the week, then we review homework, he asks me follow up questions and gives me time to ask my own questions. Then, depending on how much time is left, he'll ask me more questions, or introduce a new topic. I've learned a lot of vocabulary from our lessons and the homework. We spend an appropriate amount of time on new grammar so I feel like I get a lot of practice using it. The most valuable thing about our lessons is his attention to pronunciation. He listens carefully and points out the sounds I should continue practicing. It would be difficult for me to identify this on my own, so it's very helpful when he point it out. Using particles was also difficult for me but I've improved a lot since taking classes with Dylan. I look forward to continuing to work with him.

Dylan is the best teacher! He is so encouraging and I really feel like I am learning a lot working with him over the last few years. My korean has improved so much!