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Videos with real Korean captions, in order from easier to harder. Pick a path, type your way through it, and earn its badge.

Beginner TOPIK 1–2

First listens

Slow, clear Korean a few minutes at a time. Nothing to prepare: type what you hear, and look up what you don't know.

  1. At the convenience store Daily Korean with Jaerim
  2. Just listen on repeat Korean with Mina
  3. Coffee, slowly Korean with Mina
  4. At the movie theater Ria Korea 리아 코리아
  5. For absolute beginners Ria Korea 리아 코리아
  6. Hobbies Korean with Mina

Double batchim

겹받침 — 닭, 없다, 앉다, 읽다, 삶: a second consonant hiding under the first. Short texts that use them again and again, so your eyes and fingers learn each pair.

  1. ㄺ: 읽다, 닭, 흙, 맑다, 밝다
  2. ㄶ, ㅀ: 많다, 않다, 괜찮다, 싫다, 끓다
  3. ㄵ, ㅄ: 앉다, 얹다, 없다, 값
  4. ㄻ, ㄼ: 삶, 젊다, 넓다, 밟다, 여덟, 짧다
  5. ㄳ, ㄽ, ㄾ, ㄿ: 몫, 핥다, 훑다, 읊다
  6. All of them: a Sunday

Compound vowels

ㅘ ㅝ ㅚ ㅟ ㅙ ㅞ ㅢ — 와, 뭐, 회사, 귀, 왜, 의자: two vowel keys for one sound. Short texts full of them, so the second key comes without thinking.

  1. ㅘ: 와, 과, 봐요, 화요일, 왔어요
  2. ㅝ: 뭐, 원, 월요일, 더워요, 고마워요
  3. ㅚ, ㅟ: 회사, 외국, 되다, 뒤, 위, 쉬다, 귀
  4. ㅙ, ㅞ: 왜, 돼요, 괜찮아요, 꽤, 웨이터, 웬일
  5. ㅢ: 의사, 의자, 회의, 희망, 거의, 나의
  6. All of them: a Monday

Everyday conversations

Questions and answers, a train ride, a daily routine: the sentences you'll actually say, at a gentle pace.

6 videos · premium

Intermediate TOPIK 3–4

Folk tales (전래동화)

Stories every Korean grew up with, read aloud at a storyteller's pace. Narrative tense, dialogue, and a lot of 옛날 옛적에.

6 videos · premium

Out and about

Markets, streets, bookstores, the Han River: vlogs made to be understood, with the words of the places you'll go.

6 videos · premium

Advanced TOPIK 5–6

Real conversations (수다 타임)

Two teachers chatting at full speed about travel, friends, sleep and getting older. Natural Korean, nothing slowed down.

6 videos · premium

Interviews and culture

Kimchi season, a Hungarian student's Korean, the foreigner who made the first Hangul textbook: long-form listening on real subjects.

6 videos · premium

Long listens

Hour-long podcasts to settle into: a cat, a rainy day, a trip abroad, and finally The Little Prince read in Korean.

6 videos · premium

The top 1,000 words

settings


minutes of typing or words a day, shown on the home
after each word, read previous + typed word + next
YouTube texts: video plays after
“play where you are” plays the same amount
words

Learn mode While you type, words from the top 1,000 are checked now and then. Answer with 1–4, or 0 if you already know the word.

shortcuts click one, then press the new keys

your account

Definitions need a free account: 100 a day, and your saved texts follow you to any browser.

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vocab

Paste the words you’re focusing on, and generate texts that use them. They’re highlighted in green as you type.

your lists

zen mode

Type your text on a loop, for a set time or with no limit. Stop typing for 30 seconds and the session ends.

Import a YouTube video

Any Korean YouTube video with captions can become typing practice. A bookmark grabs the captions right from YouTube in your browser, and korean-assist plays the video along as you type.

  1. 1Add the bookmark (once)

    Drag this button to your bookmarks bar: → korean-assist

    • No bookmarks bar? Press ⌘+shift+b (Chrome, Edge, Safari), or in Firefox right-click the toolbar → “Bookmarks Toolbar”.
    • Firefox and Safari: you can also right-click the button → “Bookmark Link…” / “Add Link to Bookmarks”.
    • Any browser: then add a new bookmark named “→ korean-assist” and paste the code as its address.
  2. 2Open a Korean video on YouTube

    Any video with Korean captions works: human-made subtitles or YouTube’s auto-generated ones. Look for the CC button on the player.

  3. 3Click the bookmark

    A small note appears on YouTube while it grabs the captions, then “sent to korean-assist ✓”. Your video keeps playing (or stays paused) just as it was.

  4. korean-assist with the imported transcript in the editor and the linked video shown above it

    4The transcript lands in korean-assist

    A new tab opens with the captions in the editor and the video linked. Trim or edit the text if you like, then save it to your library or start right away.

  5. Typing along with the video playing above the words

    5Type along with the video

    As you finish each word (or sentence, see settings), the video plays that part so you hear the real speaker. ctrl+s replays what you just typed, ctrl+p plays what’s next, and ctrl+m switches to the synthetic voice.

Works in desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. If you ever get a message that your bookmark is out of date, drag the new one from step 1 to replace it.