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Work through them in order — each builds on the last. (5 of 6 available)
Lesson 1
Syllable Blocks
How Hangul packs letters into squares — plus 6 consonants and 6 vowels. Read
서울
and
강남
by the end.
12 letters
~15 min
Lesson 2
The Plain Consonants
ㄷ ㅂ ㅈ ㅎ
— four known shapes plus one stroke. Unlocks the whole address ladder,
부산
(Busan) and
한국
(Korea).
4 letters
~12 min
Lesson 3
Aspirated & Tense
ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅊ
and the doubled
ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ
— the extra stroke and the twin shapes both follow one rule. Completes all 19 consonants.
9 letters
~15 min
Lesson 4
The Rest of the Vowels
Y-vowels, the
ㅐ/ㅔ
pair that sound identical, and the W-combos — three rules, and the alphabet closes at 40 letters.
15 vowels
~15 min
Lesson 5
Batchim & Sound Changes
Why 27 different bottoms of a block make only 7 sounds — and the six rules that make
종로
come out as "Jongno". No new letters.
7 sounds · 6 rules
~15 min
Lesson 6
GeoGuessr Signs
Road names, administrative divisions, storefronts, and telling Korean apart from Japanese and Chinese at a glance.
full vocab
~15 min