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Learn the Korean alphabet
All 40 Hangeul letters in about 90 minutes, with mnemonics drawn from the alphabet's real design, native audio, and a typing quiz after every group.
~90 min · interactive quizzes · audio
Reading
Korean pronunciation rules
Why Korean is not said the way it is spelled: batchim, the seven final sounds, linking, nasalization and the rest, with an interactive that shows each change happening.
~14 min · interactive · audio
Word list
The 100 most common Korean words
The first 100 words of the course in teaching order, with native audio on every one, the reason each earned its place, and a typing quiz to check what stuck.
~12 min · 100 words with audio · typing quiz
Guide
Korean numbers, both systems
Sino-Korean and native numbers: which one each situation calls for, counting to 100, ages, prices, and phone numbers, with audio on every number.
~15 min · interactive practice · audio
Grammar
Korean counters
How Korean counts things, people, and animals using 개, 명, and 마리, the number contractions they trigger, and how to give your age.
~12 min · interactive practice · audio
Guide
Telling the time in Korean
Native numbers for the hour, Sino-Korean for the minutes, 반 for half past, 오전 and 오후, plus the days of the week and dates, all with an interactive clock.
~10 min · interactive practice · audio
Grammar
Korean sentence structure
Why the verb goes last, how particles free up the rest of the order, and what Korean leaves out, with a builder that has you assemble real sentences.
~12 min · interactive builder · audio
Grammar
Korean particles explained
은/는, 이/가, 을/를, and the place particles, built around the single batchim rule that decides most of them, with an interactive tool that shows it working.
~15 min · interactive practice · audio
Grammar
Korean verb conjugation
The polite present 아/어요, the past 았/었어요, and negation with 안, 못, and 아니에요, all built on one regular pattern, with an interactive conjugation tool.
~15 min · interactive practice · audio
Grammar
Korean speech levels
반말, 해요체 and 합쇼체: which to use with whom, when you can drop to casual, and why honorifics are a separate system, with audio in every register.
~13 min · politeness dial · audio
Phrases
Korean greetings
안녕하세요 and the rest, chosen by situation rather than by hour, including the goodbye that changes depending on who is walking away.
~9 min · situation picker · audio
Method
WaniKani for Korean
There is no Korean WaniKani. What the method actually is, which parts of it transfer to Korean, and an honest look at Anki, TTMIK, and the rest.
~8 min · interactive demo
Method
The best way to learn Korean vocabulary
Spaced repetition, frequency ordering, and producing words instead of recognising them, with the real review intervals and where Duolingo runs out.
~12 min · interactive demo
Exam
TOPIK levels and scores
The six levels, the score each one needs, how TOPIK I and TOPIK II differ, and an honest answer on how long each takes rather than a marketing number.
~11 min · score tables
Word list
TOPIK 1 vocabulary list
300 beginner words in frequency order with native audio on every one, a typing quiz, and an honest account of why no official TOPIK word list exists.
~10 min · 300 words with audio · typing quiz
Method
The best Korean Anki decks
Which shared decks are worth downloading, with the note counts, audio counts and update dates read off AnkiWeb, plus the settings that decide whether you finish one.
~9 min · deck comparison
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