By the end
What you'll build
- Read and write all fourteen Hangul consonants and ten basic vowels
- Assemble and decode syllable blocks, including those with final consonants
- Produce the three-way distinction between plain, aspirated and tense consonants
- Apply the batchim rule — the seven sounds a final consonant can make
- Handle the main assimilation rules that change sounds between syllables
- Read any Korean word aloud from its spelling
Curriculum
What's inside
4 modules · 25 lessons
- 01
The Alphabet Designed to Be Learned
8 lessons- Find Your Level — Read This First
- Find Your Level — 5-Minute Placement Checkquiz
- Welcome — An Alphabet With an Inventor and a Date
- The Basic Vowelsscript trace
- The Basic Consonantsscript trace
- + 3 more lessons
- 02
The Rest of the Alphabet
5 lessons- Compound Vowels and Doubled Consonants
- The Compound Vowelsscript trace
- Word Power: Your First Twelve Wordsword power
- Reading Practicelipi type
- Checkpoint: The Full Alphabetquiz
- 03
What the Alphabet Doesn't Show You
6 lessons- Three Kinds of K, T, P and Ch
- Plain, Aspirated, Tensepronunciation card
- Listening: The Three-Way Contrastlistening lab
- Batchim — Only Seven Final Sounds
- Batchim and Liaisonfill blank
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Putting It Together
6 lessons- Reading Korean Aloud
- Speaking Lab: Read a Korean Menuspeaking lab
- Listening: Korean at Real Speedlistening lab
- Flashcards: The Complete Sound Systemflashcard sr
- Final Check: Hangul & Soundsquiz
- + 1 more lesson
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
25 lessons across 4 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.