"With languages, you are at home anywhere."
Edward De Waal
If you've decided you want to learn Korean online or are just looking to broaden the range of resources and approaches you use on your language-learning journey, you have a wealth of resources at your fingertips.
Thanks to the internet, anyone wanting to learn more about Korean vocabulary, grammar, phrases, pronunciation, or even the language's unique writing system is within seconds of accessing high-quality materials and resources.
In this article, we're looking at a whole bunch of our favourite websites for learning the Korean language.
Our Top Websites for Learning Korean
These are just some of our favourite websites for studying Korean, brushing up on grammar, or learning new vocabulary.
Cyber University of Korea: Quick Korean
The Cyber University of Korea's website features a large number of different courses, but the most important one for us is the Quick Korean course.
Naturally, if you're an absolute beginner, we recommend starting with the Level 1 course, which can be found on the Cyber University of Korea's YouTube Channel, Naver TV, or The Korea Times.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects is a language-learning website with a bunch of free games and online resources for learning Korean. These games cover Korean vocabulary like numbers up to 100, fruits and vegetables, animals, and days and months.
It's worthwhile tackling the games in this order if you're completely new to Korean. Otherwise, just jump in at the vocabulary you need to study or refresh.
FluentU
FluentU is a language-learning website that you have to pay for. The website uses video content as the basis for the lessons and will teach you using real-world videos.
The subtitles for the videos are based on professional translations and during each video, you can click freely on the subtitles to get a definition and translation of the word or you could always use one of the best Korean translation apps to do it. To test your understanding of the content, there are also quizzes and various lessons.
There's a 14-day free trial to see if it's right for you.
Hangul Forest
Hangul Forest is a useful site you should save to your favourites.
It mostly covers Korean's hangul writing system, but there are also useful expressions, sections on Korean vocabulary, and other useful links to more sites to help you with your Korean.
How to Study Korean
The How to Study Korean website has free lessons across 8 different units (though they're numbered 0 to 7).
While the basic lessons are free, you can also pick up PDFs of the units with workbooks, vocabulary lists, audio packages, conjugation lists, and a word search.
How to Study Korean also has a YouTube channel with some video versions of the lessons from the website.
Italki
Italki is an online language-learning platform that offers 1-on-1 language tutoring across many languages like English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, German, and, most importantly, Korean.
You can also find group classes and a community section with plenty of articles on learning languages.
KoreanClass101
The KoreanClass101 site has audio and video lessons, study tools, and a popular podcast.
Like many of the other sites, there's a premium subscription model available. With KoreanClass101, there are the Premium and Premium Plus subscriptions available, with the latter offering 1-on-1 learning complete with assessments and writing and pronunciation practice.
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LingQ
The LingQ website uses real-world content to teach you languages. This content includes books, podcasts, news, videos, etc.
This isn't a free resource and there's a monthly, yearly, or two-year subscription available. The longer you sign up, the more you'll save, with up to a 40% saving available if you go for the two-year option.
There's also a LingQ app available on the App Store and Google Play.
Memrise
Memrise is a website, language learning platform, and one of the best apps for learning Korean.
It helps learners master languages through spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is when you study the things you don't know more frequently than the things that you do.
It might sound pretty obvious, but many of us have a tendency when we study to trick ourselves into thinking we know more than we do by focusing on our favourite topics.
Talk to Me in Korean
Talk to Me in Korean is a website that offers plenty of Korean resources like books, online lessons, and even one of the best podcasts on Korean that's been running for over a decade.
The courses on the Talk to Me in Korean site include bite-sized lessons, lesson notes, dialogue videos, reviews, and quizzes.
This isn't a free resource. Instead, you'll need a monthly or yearly subscription, but if you choose the yearly option, it does work out 40% cheaper than the monthly subscription.
Learning a language doesn't happen overnight.
Use a variety of resources, correct your errors, and practise regularly.
Bonus: Even More Sites for Learning Korean
Since everybody learns a little bit differently, we've included a few more websites for you to check out. There are blogs, language-learning sites, and a variety of different types of content and approaches.
Dom & Hyo
Dom and Hyo's website features ebooks, infographics and articles, FAQs, and a blog. This site doesn't really include structured courses for learners, but anyone interested in South Korea or the Korean language should bookmark it and check out some of the lovely visuals made by Dom.
The Quick & Easy Hangul e-book is free, but a lot of the other content isn't. The blog, however, can be accessed for free.
Genki Korean
The Genki Korean website is essentially a fansite made by someone learning Korean.
There are a bunch of resources on here including games and information on the various aspects of foundational Korean vocabulary and grammar.
You can learn about numbers, useful phrases, ordering food, asking where people are from, telling the time, etc.
Go! Billy Korean
The Go! Billy Korean site is a blog and site with lots of articles and resources on learning Korean.
There's a beginner's Korean course, guides to learning Hangul (the Korean writing system), FAQs, articles on Korean culture and food, and tips for effectively learning the language.
Learn With Oliver
This language-learning website offers Korean flashcards, texts, and games. It should be noted that you'll get a free 7-day trial of the premium features when you sign up, but unless you choose to pay for a premium account, you'll be left with the Free Basic Account.
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Linguanaut
Lingaunaut is a website for finding language tutors, but the site also has a range of free Korean lessons on things like adjectives, the Korean alphabet, idioms, numbers, and phrases.
The free lessons won't get you very far, but if you want to quickly brush up on any of these or look for a tutor, the site might be worth checking out.
Loecsen
The Loecsen website offers materials and courses for a multitude of different languages including Korean.
You can start learning immediately with the most basic courses using loop training and spaced repetition to get you to grips with the basics of Korean.
LP’s Korean Language Learning
This site is a Korean language guide and blog complete with lots of articles on the language itself, learning Korean with music, and a YouTube channel (Learn Korean the Easy Way) with video lessons on it.
The YouTube channel only has a few videos on it, but there's plenty of content on the site for you to go through.
My Languages
The My Languages website is a compendium of hundreds of different languages including Korean.
You can find free lessons on the Korean alphabet and aspects of Korean grammar like adjectives, prepositions, verbs, questions, pronouns, adverbs, etc.
This site is a useful resource to refer back to so make sure you save it to your favourites or bookmarks.
Preply
Preply is another site for finding language tutors. In addition to connecting students with language tutors (just like Superprof), this site is specifically for learning a language.
You can search for tutors all over the world according to the languages they teach, the languages they speak, where they are in the world, and how much they charge.
How to Get the Most out of Language Learning Websites
Every student is different and what works for one mightn't work for another. The key to learning a language is to mix up the resources and approaches that you use until you find the ones that work best for you.
Another tip is to ensure that you actively learn a language. Immersion and passively learning a language can help and you'll want to hear and read as much Korean as you can to speed up the process, but when you're studying, make sure that you're taking notes and testing your understanding and memory.
Regularly test yourself and return to older lessons and concepts to make sure that you still remember and understand them. Be sure to focus on the areas that you struggle with more than the concepts that you find easy.
If you're still struggling despite all your best efforts, don't forget that help is out there in the form of private tutors.
You can search for private Korean tutors in Australia and around the world on the Superprof website and with many of our tutors offering the first lesson for free, you can always try a few out before choosing the one that's right for you and how you like to learn languages.
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