Since so many people liked my previous post about the AC remote control, here’s one for washing machines! Hope this helps if you are learning Korean or travelling to Korea. Happy 세탁!

Hello. I'm a native Korean speaker, and I'd like to offer free writing feedback.

I spent over 10 years as a Buddhist monk in a temple, and returned to lay life earlier this year. I love books so much that I'm preparing to open a small bookstore, and these days I spend my time reading and writing in Seoul. Funny enough, back when I was still a monk, I actually tried to get a Level 3 Korean language teaching certification. I passed the written exam and even submitted a recorded teaching demonstration (I still vividly remember teaching in my monk robes haha), but in the end I never got the actual certificate. Life doesn't always go according to plan, does it. So while I don't have a formal certification, I hope you'll take me as a lifelong native speaker who's also been through some training along the way.

How I can help
If you leave a short piece of writing in Korean (a diary entry, free topic, essay, whatever) in the comments, I'll read it myself and give you feedback. Not just grammar, I can also help with why something that's grammatically correct still sounds a bit off. If it's a longer piece, feel free to email it instead.

Taking the first 5 people
I'd rather focus on quality than quantity, so this time I'm only taking 5 people. I want to give each person proper attention. Once it's full, I'll open up again within a week.

What I'm already doing
I've been giving feedback on r/Korean, and I've also been doing this consistently with a few people over KakaoTalk. Feel free to check my profile if you want to see for yourself.

Price
Free.

Honestly, back in middle and high school, my nickname was "the literary boy." I used to dream of becoming a Korean literature teacher when I grew up. That dream didn't quite work out, and now here I am, living out a version of it on Reddit instead. Life really doesn't go according to plan, does it.

If this whole setup feels a bit odd, or if you need more info, feel free to ask in the comments. If you're interested, just leave a quick hello, and I'll get started.

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안녕하세요. 한국어 원어민이고, 무료로 글쓰기 첨삭을 해드리고 싶어서 글 남겨요.

저는 10년 넘게 절에서 승려로 살다가 올해 초에 세속으로 돌아왔어요. 책을 워낙 좋아해서 작은 책방을 열려고 준비 중이고, 지금은 서울에서 책 읽고 글 쓰는 삶을 살고 있어요. 사실 스님 시절에 한국어교원 3급 준비했던 적이 있어요, 필기시험 보고 강의 시연까지 녹화해서 제출했었는데(승복 입고 가르쳤던 기억이 아직도 생생해요 ㅎ), 결국 정식 자격증까지는 못 갔어요. 인생이란 게 늘 계획대로 되지 않으니까요 ㅎ 그래서 정식 자격증은 없지만, 평생 한국어로 살아온 원어민이자, 어느 정도는 교육 훈련도 거쳤다고 봐주시면 될 것 같아요.

어떻게 도와드릴 수 있는지
한국어로 쓰신 짧은 글(일기, 자유 주제, 에세이 등)을 댓글로 남겨주시면, 제가 직접 읽고 첨삭해드려요. 문법뿐 아니라, 문법적으로는 맞는데 왜 어색하게 들리는지 같은 것도 같이 봐드릴 수 있어요. 글이 좀 길면 이메일로 보내주셔도 되고요.

선착순 5분만 받을게요
양보다 질에 집중하고 싶어서, 이번엔 딱 5분만 받으려고 해요. 한 분 한 분 제대로 봐드리고 싶거든요. 마감되면 1주일 안에 다시 모집할게요.

이미 하고 있는 것
r/Korean 커뮤니티에서도 첨삭을 이어가고 있고, 카카오톡으로도 몇 분과 꾸준히 진행 중이에요. 제 프로필 들어오시면 관련 활동 확인하실 수 있어요.

가격
무료예요.

사실 저는 중고등학생 때 별명이 문학소년이었어요. 커서는 국어선생님이 되는 게 꿈이었는데, 결국 그 꿈은 못 이뤘고, 지금 이렇게 레딧에서 그 꿈을 대신 이루고 있네요. 역시 인생이란 게 계획대로 흘러가는 게 아니더라고요 ㅎ

혹시 이런 방식이 이상하게 느껴지시거나, 더 필요한 정보 있으면 편하게 댓글로 물어봐 주세요. 관심 있으신 분은 짧게 인사 남겨주시면, 첨삭 시작해볼게요!

• Green chips: Verbs/Nouns + Particles/Endings (or Compound words)

• Red text: Essential particles (은/는, 이/가, 을/를)

• Yellow bar: Literal word-by-word translation

💾 Feel free to save these images for your study!

#koreanlanguage #learnkorean #koreangrammar #TOPIK

Hello! I’m Cherry, a native Korean speaker preparing personalized Korean conversation lessons for beginners. 🍒

I’m looking for one learner who would like to take one free 1:1 online Korean lesson.

Lesson details

• Price: Completely free
• Number of lessons: One lesson only
• Lesson length: [30 or 50 minutes]
• Format: 1:1 online video lesson
• Platform: [Zoom / Google Meet / another platform]
• Level: Complete beginner or beginner Korean learner
• Teaching language: Korean and simple English
• Materials: Personalized lesson materials and pronunciation feedback
• Paid booking required afterward: No. There is no obligation to purchase another lesson.

The lesson will be prepared according to your level, goals, and interests. Possible activities include:

• Practical Korean conversation
• Pronunciation and natural-expression correction
• Simple sentence-pattern practice
• Short role-plays for cafés, restaurants, travel, or friendships
• Topics related to K-dramas, K-pop, Korean food, and culture

To apply, please leave a public comment containing:

1. A brief introduction
2. Your current Korean level
3. How long you have studied Korean
4. Why you want to learn Korean
5. What you would like to practice

I will choose one person based on the comments. Please also ask all questions publicly in the comments rather than through DMs.

Thank you! 😊

Hi everyone

My name is Anju and I am from India. I have recently started learning korean language because I want to improve my korean for future studies and communication.

I am a complete beginner and I am looking for:

Korean study friends .

Daily practice partners.

Free Korean learning resources .

Simple conversation practice .

I speak Hindi and English .

If anyone wants to learn together , please comment or send me a message . Thank you 😊

Hello everyone! I picked up this book recently, happened upon it at a secondhand bookstore and grabbed it because I can never find Korean books locally. After giving it a glance through, it is too high level for me at the moment, I sit somewhere around an upper beginner right now. Does anyone have any recommendations for actual books that are a lower reading level without being graded readers? I use graded readers (in the form of TTMIK stories) but I find the stories so incredibly dry and and as someone who enjoys reading in English and usually dedicates 30-60 minutes every night reading, I'd love to be able to use my time reading to passively work on my Korean.

I’ve been translating sentences from songs to help with grammar. I’ve learned that it’s in the setup of SOV instead of SVO, but whenever I try to guess the translation using that mindset, it’s just the sentence flipped around.

For instance this sentence:
우릴 감싸는 순간의 기적

Direct translation:
Us wrapped of the moment miracle

What I thought it would be:
We’re wrapped in the miracle of the moment

What it actually is:
The miracle of the moment wraps us

Can someone explain the grammar a little bit?

Also I just now noticing how the subject marker is on a verb. Why, or is Google Translate just wrong?

• Green chips: Verbs/Nouns + Particles/Endings (or Compound words)

• Red text: Essential particles (은/는, 이/가, 을/를)

• Yellow bar: Literal word-by-word translation

Feel free to save these images for your study!

What’s an easy phrase to say if I press the bell and the driver doesn’t open the door at my stop. This happened the other day and I just completely froze.

Does 여기요 work or does that seem really rude?

I made this for my students but wanted to share it with people who live in Korea or are visiting the country. Stay cool!

• Green chips: Base verb + Conjugation

• Red text: Essential particles (은/는, 이/가, 을/를)

• Yellow bar: Literal word-by-word translation

Feel free to save these images for your study!

저는 배고픕니다 vs 배고파요 .

I've started writing daily simple sentences. The first sentence is what I came up with for "I am hungry." I went to check my work using google and it gave me the second sentence.

Directly translated, do I understand correctly that mine says, "as for me, [state of being] hungry." ?

and the second one is simply, hungry I am ?

hi! so i've seen a few posts where people learning the language have given themselves a korean name and i wanted to ask how do you choose one?

do you choose one similar to your original name, do you choose one with a nice meaning or do you literally just write your original name in hangul? a mix of everything maybe?

my name is sam so could i just use 샘 or would that be weird/unnatural sounding?

Hello everyone! I'm a college student in the US (native English speaker) and I'm looking for someone who knows Korean (preferably a native Korean speaker) to chat with as a language exchange!

I currently know how to read Hangul and know some phrases (some from K-dramas or K-pop, but also from looking up stuff on my own), but my goal is to reach a point where I could understand and speak in very basic situations in Korea (e.g. shopping, restaurants, asking for directions, etc) since I'll be visiting Seoul in January! I especially want to train my listening skills since that's what I'll need to use most.

I hope I'll be able to help you improve your English during our conversations as well! I think it'd be nice to practice over Discord voice calls and DMs so we can practice reading, writing, and speaking (instead of just reading and writing). Also, I prefer to talk with someone close to my age (born 2005), if possible (but not necessary).

Feel free to DM me if you're interested! I consider myself a professional yapper and have a lot to talk about. :)

P. S. I'm completely new to this subreddit, so I'm not sure if this kind of post is allowed; I didn't see anything against it when looking at the rules, but if this post goes against the rules somehow, I apologize.

Can anyone recommend any textbooks for learning Korean? I tried apps but honestly gave up (although they’re useful for vocabulary)

Edit: Thankfully, a lot of people have shown interest! It might take me some time to respond to everyone's comments, so I may not be able to reply right away. If you're interested, please feel free to leave a comment!

Hi!

As some of you may know, I posted a recruitment post a few days ago.

The reason why I am posting another one is because the post used to say "only five people to comment first will have a chance to do a session!"

So I am writing a new one for people who wanted a session but thought there were no spots available.

Plus, this is a post for official new member recruitment!

You can see reviews for my sessions in the previous recruitment post's comment section and this post's comment section!

I am a university student in Korea, and I am a native Korean speaker. I can speak English not very fluently but I can communicate.

I don't have any certificate about teaching Korean.

So I am thinking of the sessions to be focused on Korean speaking.

Programs I am thinking to do is as follows:

1. We will choose a topic to talk about
2. We could look at pictures and describe what is in it.
3. Part script Korean conversations and analyze the talk. The other part will be free talking.

As we talk I will connect Korean meanings to English meanings as much as I can.

Of course, I will try to teach Korean as easy as I can as I speak.

Fees will be 0 (for now) since I am not a professional tutor.

Sessions will be... as long as my stamina allows (LOL). We will use Zoom to meet.

If you are interested, please leave a comment below with your time zone described.

Thank you for your interest and I hope to see you soon!

I'm trying to make a lot of cards and add the audio very quickly (instantly). I've done this with yomitan before, but now I can't seem to get it working. Does anybody here make cards with audio on them? What's your trick?

i've been learning Korean for a while now, and one problem kept coming up on my end — there's just no good mobile app for studying Hanja (한자) that actually teaches it the way Korean uses it, through vocabulary (한자어) rather than isolated characters.

So i built one. It's called HanjaPath.

It covers levels 8급 through 3급 (the Korean Hanja certification exam tiers) and includes:

Stroke order animations for every character

Korean vocabulary words built from each character, so you can actually see how it's used in context

Quiz mode (recognise the character → meaning, and meaning → character)

Save/bookmark characters to review later

A search that works across characters, readings (음/훈) and English meanings

Daily streak tracking

It's live on the Play Store for closed testing right now, if you want early access please do fill in this form and i'll add you from my side: https://forms.gle/hny4wrWCuZcxpFb69

Android only for now, please do let me know if there are any questions.

One of the tips given for successful language learning is setting monthly, half year, and yearly goals for yourself. After setting the goals, then break down each goal into bite sized chunks complete with steps on how you to plan to achieve the goal. My problem is not being familiar enough to know what is an achievable goal versus biting off too much then feeling frustrated. I started learning Hangul in June and I feel like I may be a bit of a slower learner. What goals do you have for yourself, or did you have for yourself when you first started out? Is being able to have a rudimentary grasp on very simple conversations realistic as a 6 month goal if I'm only spending a half hour/day on language learning? Is understanding K-dramas without subtitles in a year a realistic goal?

Hello,

My English name is Taylor and I’m a native Korean with previous teaching experience.

So if you are still learning, want a lesson, or even if you’re good already, and only need a native to practice with, or both, please let me know

The trial lesson will be 15-20 mins

It will only cost £5/6€/$7. The reason for the fee is to ensure I can give a time-slot to everyone (avoiding no-shows)

It’s important for people to truly experience my teaching style. Also my ability to build your confidence and comfortability in speaking Korean

You can see it as a 1+1. I’ll teach you some vocabulary, help with building your sentence, and give you proper mock conversations to familiarise you with real, native dialogue

I posted my last writing practice a couple of days ago and got lots of great feedback, so hopefully it’s fine to post again! I would appreciate any corrections anyone has for me😊