I use Lingo deer and talk to me in Korean, highly recommend both 🙂

To start, there’s a lot of YouTube channels that will help break into it. These are often much better than an app. I recommend Miss Vicky extremely highly. She will explain nuance that apps often just completely ignore.

Once you can read the alphabet and have a grasp of basic vocabulary, sentence structure etc I recommend watching vlogs of Korean YouTubers, especially one that has Korean and English subs. I like to pause the video after a phrase I don’t know or think would be helpful and write it down. This is a great way to learn real Korean vs “textbook Korean”

But also keep in mind that Korean is an incredibly hard language for English speakers, ranked as the highest difficulty level. It’s pretty easy to get to a beginner level but very hard to advance. It’s totally possible, but will take a lot of time and commitment to become fluent enough to watch videos and understand everything. Anyways, good luck 👍

Go to r/Korean. We don't recommend duolingo.

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They have an app and a website (website is better imo) but howtostudykorean.com is good if you’re interested in learning the full language. It’s definitely not the quickest or easiest method, but it’s very thorough.

Only App i used(and recommend) is Anki. You can either make your own flashcards or download a premade deck and just rip it.

I can recommend some free websites: howtostudykorean, gobillykorean-> also a youtube channel

Not an app, but I'd recommend Go Billy Korean's beginner course on YouTube, or Miss Vicky (check the playlists). There's also howtostudykorean.com if you want to do a lot of reading.

i use Lingodeer, Lingo Legend, and YuSpeak to supplement my classes.

Don't install Duolingo, it's the worst app ever.

Teuida, Lingodeer and Lingory are the most popular ones on this sub. But lessons in apps are generally too short and examples are too easy, if you really want to learn a language, it's not the best option.

I use "simply fluent", it's for reading and listening to books :) i love it

I hear of them but don’t know which ones

If you were to just pick one app to focus in on, I'd recommend LingoDeer. The most useful function of this particular app is that you can click on any word or grammar form in an exercise and it will not only translate it for you but also explain what it is and why it's there. It's done wonders for my understanding of grammar and actually putting it in use.

It's also the only app I've seen so far that actually has a section just for writing practice, where it will give you a sentence and you have to translate it by typing your answer.

Langotalk and other AI-based ‘conversation practice’ apps have been very useful to me lately. It slowly builds up your confidence and helps you begin the daunting task of actually using a language outside of a studying/academic context. I recommend taking a look!

YouTube on browser paired with kimchi reader extension.

I've been using Teuida and Lingory along with YouTube videos and a textbook. The YouTubers I use the most are Talk to Me in Korean and Go Billy.

SNU has free apps. Completely free and from a reputable institution.

I recently did my first lesson on Lingodeer and it’s brilliant. The lifetime subscription goes on sale fairly regularly, and Plus gives access to some very helpful games and resources.

I use Patchim, personally

AirLearn!

Lingodeer and Lingory both get recommended here frequently.

Not an app, but I recommended Go Billy Korean's beginner course on YouTube, or Miss Vicky. (Check the playlists.)

If you enjoy learning through videos, for learning the alphabet I recommend Mr. Kim’s Learn Korean in Korean series and GoBilly’s videos. How to Study Korean is a great and free resource for both grammar and vocabulary! I also recommend TTMIK’s free podcast + web lessons, however this is lacking in vocabulary content so you’d need to support it with other resources

You could also look at How To Study Korean and if you like using books, I highly recommend getting a copy of Darakwon's Grammar in Use

Lingodeer gets pretty good recommendations here.
For grammar I'd suggest Talk to Me in Korean (they have a free curriculum on their site) and Go Billy Korean on YouTube (he's good at explaining things and he has a beginner course on his channel).

ahh ok thank you all. I haven't tried Billy Korean or How to Study Korean so I will do so tmrw. Do I pay online for the books?

There is « papago » which is also a « Ok+++ » korean translation app and « Naver dictionary » with videos, example sentences, …

I’m a big fan of using the 손안의 세종학당 app to introduce topics and then going onto youtube to go into further detail. Its the best app I’ve found so far for intermediate but you cant 100% rely on it

5 semesters of Korean should put you well above what any app can offer. All of them are focused on beginners.

If vocab is the issue, use Anki.

If you want to speak better, the only free option is going to be language exchange. If you want the best results, you need to pay for a tutor.

In my experience, the best language learning apps are podcast apps that give me access to foreign language podcasts and language learning podcasts. 

Check out this post of mine. Hope you find it helpful!

If you already have grammar down, stop torturing yourself with beginner drills. What’s missing for you is vocab + natural flow.

I hit the same plateau until I shifted to input learning. For me it was watching variety shows and K-pop content with Korean subs then pulling out words I didn’t know using Migaku.

This method really compounds, every episode you understand more. This also sticks way more because it’s vocab you’ll actually hear in real convos.

For me it's currently the best App for learning Korean. The speakers are natives, they actually explain grammar and the lessons are well structured and aren't overwhelming. You have a good selection of what and how you want it reviewed. They even have an additional app (Lingodeer+) where you can review vocab and sentences in a gamified way, which I use sometimes as I bought the two apps as a lifetime pack. As far as a language learning app goes, Lingodeer is pretty solid.

I thought it was a good starting point for self learning. it took me about 800 hours or to complete last year I think. dont expect to complete it and think you understand Korean though. its really just a starter course imo.

I’ve not found a Better app yet though

I used it to help me learn Korean back in ~2019 and really liked it then. Especially with the native speaker pronunciation videos, it helped me get a sense for how everything sounds in reality, and not just when piped through text-to-speech.

I haven't tried it recently, though (for Korean), so don't know what might've changed since then

I'm currently taking Korean course on L T L Flexi classes. My experience so far is quite good, the teacher is flexible, so many schedule options.

I bought lifetime mostly for Korean. But also to revisit some early level Italian. And I like that you get all their languages with the subscription.

As far as an App goes I think this one is very good. It does more than just words and phrases. It teaches grammar points in a structured way while not being overwhelming. In a way I can understand.

I am only in the very early stages though. And I recommend to try and find other resources too. Maybe not right away. But for reading Hangeul (한글) you could add some resources right away, but the App teaches this too.

For me the hard part is retaining the words. They’re so foreign. The App has a lot of ways to repeat and review so that’s what I’m doing now for the first section.

You could try it for free to learn the writing system and the first lesson. And then you could start a free trial if you want to do more lessons.

I've been using Busuu, though it only goes to level A2. I like the structure of the chapters. Each lesson (I do one 15-minute per day) introduces some concept which culminates in how to talk about something. So if the chapter is about discussing where something is, start with a lesson on rooms in an apartment, then a lesson on furniture, maybe a lesson on some objects like keys, pencil, etc., then a lesson on location words (on, under, in front of, etc.), then finally "Where is it?", "Where is the pencil?", "The pencil is in the living room.", "Where in the living room is the pencil?", "The pencil is on the coffee table."

Busuu has some lessons where you type in Korean. It was super frustrating looking up each letter on the Korean keyboard layout, so I decided to learn to type in Korean. A great site for that is https://type.sam.today/ Now I know where all the keys are, though I'm still slow at typing. A bonus is that if you want to type faster, you have to read faster. Plus, I found a common reading mistake I was making with reading double vowels ("w" prefix) where I was reading the 1st consonant then the vowel to the right instead of considering there might be a vowel below the consonant first. Though now the typing game thinks I'm very inaccurate at ㅗ and ㅜ.

In parallel with Busuu, I have a "toilet book" (book I read on the toilet, not implying anything bad about the book) which is "Korean Made Simple". At first I was getting bogged (ahem) down trying to memorize a lot of vocabulary, but recently I decided to just push through and learn more grammar from that book for now. It's kind of weird sometimes that this book uses (intentionally, for the first 19 chapters) a formal (ni-da) style, while Busuu is more informal-polite (hae-yo, i-e-yo etc), but I guess you have to learn that eventually anyway.

I was using Memrise, which seemed cool at first (I like that it has literal word-for-word translations), but it seemed to ramp up the phrases it was throwing at me too fast. I'll probably go back to that after I have more Korean knowledge and finish the Busuu lessons.

I see Lingodeer and Lingory recommended a lot.

teuida is good for a start because they explain things through to videos and interactive conversations, complementing with busuu for writing practice and more sectioned learning

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lingodeer and lingory! and then self study using websites like howtostudykorean.com :)

Hanji. The best app for conjugations.

I love Lingodeer more than any other I have downloaded. I subscribed when they had an offer on and I really enjoy it. I very much like the introduction sections where new grammar points are explained. I use Memrise too but don’t like it quite as much.

the best answer is: anki

Anki and its user decks.

Did you try TTMIK? I think it's one of the best resources to learn Korean.