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Hangul, from Zero

Seven days from "I cannot read any of this" to reading a Korean street sign

Korean writing has 24 letters, and those 24 come from 8 shapes drawn from the mouth that makes each sound. Seven daily lessons: the five base consonants, the added stroke, the three vowel marks, the mouth behind each vowel, the syllable block, the final consonant, and then a street full of signs you can read. No prior Korean at all.

Start Day 1
Lessons
7
Days
7
Minutes
107
Quiz items
49
To pass
80%

Curriculum

Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.

Week 1 · Reading the letters

  1. 1Five shapes from your own mouthThe letters are diagrams, not symbolsSay what ㄱ ㄴ ㅁ ㅅ ㅇ sound like and read a block in the right order.13min · 7items
  2. Add a stroke, add a puff of airHow five shapes become nineteenRead all nineteen initial consonants and explain what an added stroke means.12min · 7items
  3. Sky, earth, personTen vowels from three marksRead the ten basic vowels and say where the dot goes in each.17min · 7items
  4. The mouth narrows, the tongue slides backTelling the vowels apart by sound, not by shapePlace ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅣ by mouth opening and read the compound vowels.17min · 7items
  5. Letters go into a square, not a lineThree placement rules and you can write any syllablePlace any consonant and vowel correctly in a block and read a full row of the chart.15min · 7items
  6. Twenty-seven letters, seven soundsThe letter underneath the blockRead any final consonant by putting it in one of the seven sound groups.16min · 7items
  7. Read the streetSigns, stations and a menu — with everything you learned this weekRead real Korean signs out loud and know the three sound changes you will meet.17min · 7items

Languages this course is written in

The lessons are explained in one language. Where a translation exists your screen uses it; where it does not, you see the original rather than a blank.

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