Hangul to TOPIK 6
Korean Lessons
Bite-sized, self-paced Korean lessons organized by level and lined up with the TOPIK. Tap any Korean word to hear it. Start with Hangul and work your way up.
Your path
- Hangul
- BeginnerTOPIK 1
- ElementaryTOPIK 2
- IntermediateTOPIK 3
- Upper-intermediateTOPIK 4
- AdvancedTOPIK 5
- MasteryTOPIK 6 and beyond
- Korean Culture & Everyday Life
Every lesson in order. Start anywhere with the placement test.
- 2,035lessons
- 160units
- 6levels
- 555hours of study
Levels
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HangulRead and type Korean in a few hours: every letter, the syllable blocks, the sounds they make and the Korean keyboard. Start here.
18 lessons · 6 hStart →Level 1 · TOPIK 1
BeginnerGreetings and introductions, this and that, both number systems, there is and there isn't, verb stems and the polite 해요 ending, places and times, negatives and questions, the past tense, describing things, wants and plans, and polite requests.
132 lessons · 31 hStart →Level 2 · TOPIK 2
ElementaryFormal and casual speech, linking actions and reasons, can and must, the irregular verbs, noun modifiers, suggestions, experience and comparisons, if and when, honorifics and favours, guessing, and everyday life in Korea.
280 lessons · 62 hStart →Level 3 · TOPIK 3
IntermediateReported speech, the written style, remembering and contrast, purpose and reasons, passive and causative verbs, regret and guessing, honorifics at work, health, work, housing, opinions and storytelling, and the first TOPIK II writing tasks.
442 lessons · 100 hStart →Level 4 · TOPIK 4
Upper-intermediateConcession and formal connectives, the noun phrases of written Korean, Sino-Korean word building, idioms and proverbs, the news, graphs and the argumentative essay, Korean society and work culture, fast spoken Korean and politeness strategies.
387 lessons · 107 hStart →Level 5 · TOPIK 5
AdvancedAdvanced connectives and literary endings, topic and subject in discourse, academic and business Korean, fine-grained honorifics, law, economics, science, politics and history, lectures and broadcasts, modern fiction and register.
314 lessons · 106 hStart →Level 6 · TOPIK 6 and beyond
MasteryModern and traditional literature, old speech levels and a glimpse of Middle Korean, the dialects and North Korean standard, slang and humour, legal, medical and broadcast Korean, translation precision, rhetoric and writing with style.
362 lessons · 118 hStart →Bonus module
Korean Culture & Everyday LifeAge and how to address people, 눈치 and saying things indirectly, food and drinking etiquette, holidays and family rites, school and work life, internet culture, Konglish, K-culture words, regional Korea and Korean history in brief. Opens from Elementary.
100 lessons · 24 hStart →
More practice
- Short storiesGraded stories for every level, with audio and word meanings on tap.
- Today’s reviewThe questions you missed come back on schedule, then your flashcards.
- FlashcardsStar a word or sentence in any lesson to add it to your Korean flashcards.
- My HighlightsEverything you’ve highlighted in lessons and stories, in one place.
- Study toolsGrammar guides, verb conjugation, TOPIK practice, vocabulary, writing practice and optional Hanja word roots.
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