Learn Korean! - Hangul Hack 1.2.0 + Redeem Codes

I was a complete beginner with no experience in Korean language at all and learned the writing system in one 2 months from doing one of the lessons a day. If I had applied myself I could have learned it much faster. The program does give examples later in the third section that allude to some of the weird quirks but it will take some learning outside of the app to understand specific quirks like ‘when something says S but is pronounced as a T’ etc. there are times I’d have to sit and think “why is that?” Maybe only after the 5th time doing it in the app then I’d go online and read about Batchims. So this app gets you about 3/4th of the way there then you’ll learn the specifics if you’re interested afterward. Nearly perfect app, can’t recommend it more highly.

The app uses inconsistent romanization and crappy computerized pronunciation audio, making it impossible to actually learn how the Hangul syllables should be romanized or pronounced. It doesn’t explain any of the rules around voiced and unvoiced consonants, aspiration, consonant doubling, or pronunciation changes in final consonants - the hard parts of learning Hangul. Sections 2 and 3, on final consonants and vowel combinations, have their labels swapped. The writing exercises sometimes reject correct input for no discernible reason. The timing of the spaced repetition system is not explained anywhere, so you just have to guess when new reviews are coming up. If a character is incorrectly recognized as correct, there is no way to mark it wrong. The exercises include pretending to input Hangul on a keyboard, but the app highlights the correct keyboard buttons, so you don’t have to actually internalize how a Hangul keyboard is laid out. Most of the multiple choice questions do not require you to decipher the entire Hangul syllable - they can be answered if you know only the initial consonant of the syllable. In conclusion: useless!

Omgosh! I love this app! But now I want more combinations available for the sounds— especially the sounds difficult for Americans. I feel like repetition is so key. I would also like each letter separately with the name of the letter and perhaps a pronunciation tip, like sounds like g in front, k in middle and hm isn’t placed at end or like that at the end of a syllable. Advanced app like this would be SO VALUABLE!! practicing the kinesiology of tracing the letters is so great. The voices are nice. Being able to repeat them is awesome sauce. Please make an advance app like this!!
Maybe could also start with writing and pronouncing names and places.
I love you all for creating these apps!!

I’m learning Hangul for the first time, having already studied Japanese and Chinese writing systems, which helps understand things like stroke order, etc. This app does a good job of starting with simple characters and character combinations, and slowly building on that base. One thing that needs improvement is the audio prompts which seem to too brief and/or abruptly cut off. Also, as a non-native learner, there are sounds that sound exactly alike. It would be good to be able to create customized pairings in order to compare what sounds similar to the user, and thus be able to review them. Lastly, the app only teaches the characters in isolation, and not in word context. It would be awesome if some of the review options could be common words or place names. Otherwise, thus is a great app for motivated beginners.

It dosent necessarily teach what each letter means٫ I mean I can read Hangul I downloaded this just so I could write Hangul٫ but other people want to learn Hangul. This app should specify if its intended to teach how to write Hangul if thats the case. (which it most likely is) You also only get to do 2 lessons per level without paying. It also dosent teach the individual letters just combinations of the letters. It should have a level teaching the individual letters because most people who got this app got it so they could learn Hangul unlike me who simply got the app because I wanted to learn how to write Hangul. But dont use that as an excuse to simply just teach how to write Hangul because I am not most people. This app should SPECIFY that it only teaches you to write Hangul so people dont get disappointed.

It doesn’t only let you familiarize yourself with the characters, but it also teaches you the correct strokes to write the character. That’s important when learning a culture and the correct way to writing a language. At first I had thought the app was faulty because I was drawing the character in 2 strokes, when the correct number of strokes was meant to be 3, and so it didn’t let me move on until I wrote it correctly.

That is the discipline I was looking for in a learning app and I am happy to learn the correct way versus just writing the characters however I initially thought was easiest.

This app is really simple and easy to use. I like the repetitiveness of it and being able to write the characters along with hearing the pronunciation because it helps me to remember much better. I’m using this app along with a few others as well as taking a course online. I know it will take a while before I can easily read Korean but this is a step in the right direction. Plus it’s not expensive for the full version which is nice compared to other apps. If I run into any issues I’ll update this review.

So I’ve tried a lot of things to help me learn Hangul but none of them have worked for me until I tried this this really helps since it makes you repetitively write it over and over again I don’t like that you have to write a specific way since you’re still writing the same thing just a different way but overall I really like it it’s very easy to so while I’m in between classes I’ll just do a little bit of this and it’s very very convenient and I can even do it without Internet so whenever I’m traveling I just do this

I’m really enjoying this app so far. It’s really helping me learn the letters. But I think that the English letter sounds don’t always (in fact, to me they very rarely) sound similar to their Korean equivalent. I think it would be great if a feature was added so that I can enter in English text what the Korean letter sounds like. For example, ㄱ is represented as “ga” in app when to me it sounds like “ka.” When the app asks for me to pick the English equivalent, it gets confusing because in my head I see it as “ka” but the answer is “ga.” This feature could be great and make learning a little more user friendly.

This app helped me learn Hangul easily, but the writing was so specific that it often counted me wrong because I didn’t write things with ㄱ or ㅋ the way it wanted it to. I also really didn’t like how you had to write each consonant or vowel in a specific order. For example, for the consonant ㅁ, it made me write the left side of the rectangle, the upper side and the right side in another motion, and then the final motion would be the bottom side. Even for ㅇ, it counts you wrong if you don’t write it as anything other than counterclockwise. Overall, okay app, but the writing needs a ton of improvement