The 10 best Korean Anki decks (2027)

Number 1 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 7 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 6,500 notes · audio on 13% · updated May 2022

A 6,500-word Korean vocabulary list ordered from 네 to 수능 that covers common words well, but it has no sentences, no grammar and little audio, so treat it as a word bank and not a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is word selection and order. In the sample, 86% of the 1,000 most common words on the general frequency list are taught, and 80% of the top 2,000. The opening is sensible: 네, 있다, 학교, 집, 먹다, 친구. Glosses in the sample are accurate and the Hanja field is a real help. The weaknesses are structural. 99% of notes are single words or short phrases, and 49 of 6,500 are sentences. The card front is a bare word, and the back is a gloss with the Hanja. Only 831 notes (13%) have audio. Multi-sense words such as 약 ("drug, medicine; approximately") and 수정 ("modification; correction; fertilization") come with no example to separate the senses. Some common function words never appear: 다른, 그것, 근데, 때문. Particles and endings like 을, 에서, 에게, 까지 and 부터 are also absent. Hanja has small slips too, such as 선생님 showing "先生-" and 사인회 showing "sign會". The new-word rate stays near 60% through the whole deck, which is normal for a word list, but later words get steadily rarer. By the last tenth, 89% of new words are past the 5,000 most common on the list or not on it at all (사인회, 휴관하다, 반송하다).

Use it if you already learn grammar and context somewhere else and want a large, mostly sensibly ordered vocabulary bank, especially if you know some Chinese or Japanese and can use the Hanja. Skip it if you want to learn Korean from this deck alone, if you need to hear every word, or if you learn best from words in sentences. For those needs you would have to supply the missing material yourself.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 500 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2021

A 500-word Korean beginner vocabulary deck with audio on every card and pictures on most, useful as a word-recognition drill but with no sentences and no frequency ordering.

Verdict

The deck's strength is the card itself. Each of the 500 cards pairs a headword with a recording, 73% have a picture, and the entries in the sample are mostly correct. Examples are 침대 (寢臺), 영화 (映畫) 'movie, film', and verbs in dictionary form such as 마시다 'to drink'. The vocabulary is everyday and fits A1-A2, and the day-numbered tags (1 day to 50 day) give about 10 new words a session. The weaknesses are structural. There are no example sentences (only 26 of 493 measured notes have four or more words), so words like 보다 ('to see, to watch, to meet, to read') get no context to separate their senses. Order follows daily themes, not frequency or difficulty. 회사원 (rank 11,162) is card 2, while 그것 'it, that' is card 496. The deck covers 24% of the top 1,000 list entries, though that figure understates it because the top ranks are mostly particles and endings that a word list would not teach. There are also small slips, such as 'to film, to take a' cut off at the end.

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Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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mixed · A1 · 455 notes · audio on 98% · updated June 2021

A Hangul-and-first-words companion to the Ewha Korean 1 textbook with voice audio on nearly every card; worth using for the alphabet, not as a general Korean deck.

Verdict

The deck does its core job well. The letter cards (ㅏ, ㅓ, ㄱ, ㄴ and so on) each carry five audio clips and a romanization, and the Hangul run follows the book's order: vowels, consonants, compound vowels, double consonants, final consonants. Audio is on 445 of 455 notes. Most single-word glosses are right (오이 'cucumber', 우유 'milk', 학생 'Student'). The weaknesses are what sits around that core. In the sample almost nothing is a sentence; the few that exist are workbook instructions, some of them garbled. 숫자를 어떻게 일을까요? is glossed 'How would the numbers work?', and 글지를 완성하세요 and 읽써보세요 look like typos. Some glosses are wrong or odd: 게 is glossed 'to / a', 옷 is glossed 'dress / vestir', and 없다 is glossed 'lack'. The deck teaches only 216 words, 97 of the top 1,000 by frequency, and nothing explains grammar. Forms like 음악을, 바나나를 and 먹습니다 appear as bare vocabulary. Many back sides repeat long blocks of notes, such as the Hangeul history on every consonant card.

Use it if you are a true beginner working through Ewha 1.1 and want to learn to read Hangul with sound, in English or Spanish, and you are willing to check entries against the book. Do not use it as your main route to usable Korean. It will not give you sentence patterns, grammar, or common words. If you cannot spot a bad gloss, expect to learn a few wrong ones.

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mixed · A1 · 1,846 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2021

A companion deck for the Ewha Korean 1 textbook with audio and a picture on nearly every card, worth studying only if you have the book and will correct its typos and ignore its photo-caption ending.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is how it builds. In sentences, the new-word rate falls from 12.9% to 4.5% by the third tenth and stays around 3-5%. 94% of sentences add at most one new word. The textbook sentences in the sample are short and natural for A1, such as 마이클 씨 캐나다 사람입니까? and 1층에 거실과 부엌과 서재가 있습니다. 88 of the 100 most common Korean words are taught, mostly early. The weaknesses are accuracy and thin coverage. The sample has garbled Korean: 안영하세요 for 안녕하세요, 곧장세요, 휴대전호 for 휴대전화, and a card reading 등산하생다. 바라보 is glossed 'Look up / Buscar'. The last chapter (the 'Foto' strand) switches to photo captions with invented compounds like 로드러너가 국경벽을 바라보고 있다, plus sentences left in dictionary form such as 모기가 손가락을 물다. Grammar is almost never explained; the sample shows two notes, one on particles and one on tensification. Only 25% of the top 2,000 words are covered. Several names (나타샤, 이치로, 김정우) take up vocabulary slots. 44.3% of notes are missing a field, and the Verb field is often a placeholder: 있다 on 반친구 and 침실, 이야기하다 on every Hangul letter.

Use it if you are working through Ewha Korean 1 or a similar course, read English or Spanish, and will check the Korean against the book as you go. The audio and picture on each card, plus the listening-only third card, suit that kind of drilling. Skip it if you are studying without a textbook, can't yet spot a wrong spelling, or want a frequency-based or grammar-explained path. At that stage a typo like 안영하세요 will simply be learned as correct.

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sentence deck · A1-A2 · 1,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2021

A 1,000-sentence Korean deck of short, mostly natural Tatoeba lines with audio on every card, useful as a listening and phrase supplement but not as a course to study in order.

Verdict

The deck does a few things well. Sentences average 4.2 words, and about 80% of them add one new word or none, so a card rarely overwhelms you. The first tenth leans on common vocabulary (60% of new words are in the top 1,000), and 80 of the 100 most common words appear. The Korean is mostly everyday spoken phrasing such as 정말 미안해, 커피 마실래요? and 늦어서 미안해. Every note has audio. The weaknesses are in the material. The order looks shuffled, not built, so card 1 is 저거 논문이야? and card 3 is 톰은 기침했어. Politeness levels switch from card to card: 안녕히 주무세요, then 먹을래요, then 톰은 정직하다. Nothing explains the endings. Filler like 톰이 끙끙댔어 and 톰이 지불했어 uses up slots, and common words never appear, including 친구, 그리고, 때 and 까지. Coverage of the top 1,000 words is only 33%. The sample also shows real errors: 하늘은푸른이에요 for 'The sky is blue', 곧 돌아올께요, the obsolete 가지고 있읍니다, and 사과 좋아요? translated as 'How do you like them apples?'.

Use this if you already know hangul and basic grammar from another source and want a pool of short sentences with audio to read and listen to. It works best as a supplement next to a textbook or teacher who explains the endings. Do not use it as your main course or as a first Korean resource. It teaches no grammar, builds no topic or lesson structure, and has no explanations. You also have to be able to tell a mistaken card from a correct one. If you need frequency-led vocabulary or a guided path from A1 upward, choose a different deck. If you keep this one, expect to edit the template and some cards.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 100 notes · no audio · updated August 2014

A 100-card list of Korean verbs in dictionary form with one-line English glosses, useful as a quick vocabulary checklist but not worth studying as a main resource.

Verdict

The sample shows a clean, readable list. Cards like 오다 / "To come" and 마시다 / "To drink" are short and easy to review in both directions, and the opening verbs are everyday ones. But there are no example sentences, no audio, no images and no conjugation. The order is loose: the deck runs through daily actions, then cooking (끓이다, 썰다, 튀기다, 휘젓다 at #52-60), then emotions. Core verbs sit late, with 하다 at #61 and 있다 and 없다 at #62-63. Several glosses are too thin or overlap: 갖다, 있다 and 가지다 are all "To have", 묻다 and 물어보다 are both "To ask", and 쓰다 appears twice as "To write" and "To wear (hat, eyewear)". The deck also teaches only about 104 words, which covers 6% of the 1,000 most common words on the frequency list.

Use it if you are a beginner who wants a checklist of verb meanings to pair with a textbook or course that supplies sentences and grammar. It is a poor fit if you want to learn how Korean verbs behave in use, since nothing here shows a verb with a particle, an ending or a subject. It will not take you far on its own, and anyone past the first few weeks of study will find little they cannot get from a better-ordered, sentence-based deck.

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Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · B1-C1 · 8,964 notes · audio on 24% · updated August 2013

A large personal sentence collection (8,964 notes) with good coverage of common Korean words but uneven, uncurated content; worth mining for B1-C1 sentences, not worth studying front to back as a course.

Verdict

The deck covers common vocabulary well: it teaches 919 of the top 1,000 words on the frequency list and 1,674 of the top 2,000, and the new-word rate falls from 9.6% to 4.3% across the deck. Many sampled cards are usable everyday speech, such as 너 이빨사이에 뭔가가 끼었어 / 'You've got something between your teeth.' The quality is very uneven, though. Next to those sit dictionary examples in stiff written English ('wherefore we surrendered'), bare phrases like 나시 and 괴로운 일, and long transcript lines at the end of the deck with no English at all and visible errors (제 친구, 너회, 저회랑). In the sample there is a broken sentence (나는 이미 50만 원의 지볼을 받았다), a card whose Back is just '1', and a card that is only an image. Grammar gets deliberate treatment only in the first thirty or so TTMIK notes (아무- forms, -아/어 보다, frequency adverbs). After that you get no explanation, and the order is a patchwork of sources that jumps between short phrases and 40-word spoken monologues.

Use it if you are already at an intermediate level, can read Korean without help, and want a big pool of real sentences to filter, suspend and edit. Skip it if you are a beginner, want a structured path through grammar, or expect every card to have a reliable translation and audio. You will do a lot of curation work, and the deck cannot teach grammar for you. Treat these findings as coming from a sample of about 90 notes.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,936 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2024

Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 1,936-card Korean vocabulary list (Part 1 of 3) with a two-line dialogue and audio on every card, but ordered alphabetically, so it works as a reference or review deck rather than a course.

Verdict

The strengths are the dialogues and the audio. Nearly every card (1,916 of 1,926 measured) has a short, conversational example like 비 ("갑자기 «비»가 오는데 우산이 없었거든요") or 택시 ("«택시»로 여기서 공항까지 얼마나 걸려요?"), and all 1,936 notes carry a sound file. The weaknesses are order and accuracy. Cards run alphabetically from 가게 onward, so 그저께 and 솜사탕 (ranks past 18,000) sit among basics, and only 72% of the top 1,000 words are taught. The opening is hard: the first 10% of the deck has just 9.4% of sentences with at most one new word, and card #1 has 17 unfamiliar words in its first line. The sample also shows real errors. In 감다, the line 'wrap my head in warm water' mistranslates 머리를 감는 (wash my hair). In 엉덩이, the English 'Listen to me, wipe it off a little' ignores the Korean (lift your butt so I can mop). In 여든, 'still corrects me' mistranslates 정정하셔 (is still hale). Some glosses are loose: 가요 is fine, but 전하다 as 'remain' and 편찮다 as 'difficult; troubled' are wrong. Several cards have no «» mark.

Use it if you already read Hangul and know a few hundred words, want a broad TOPIK-style vocabulary list with spoken examples, and will check doubtful English lines against the dictionary link on the back. Skip it if you are starting from zero and want gradual steps, grammar explanation, or a deck you can trust without checking.

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Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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cloze course · A1-B1 · 1,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated December 2024

A 1,000-card Korean sentence deck with a smooth one-new-word-at-a-time ramp and audio on every card, but built from subtitle fragments and only 267 words, so it works as a listening supplement rather than a course.

Verdict

The ordering is the deck's real strength. In the sample, nearly every sentence adds one unfamiliar word at most, and the new-word rate drops from 14% in the opening to about 3-4% and stays there. Every card has audio, and each target word gets 3-8 sentences, so you see 있었어요, 혼자 and 싶은 in several contexts. The weaknesses are in the content. Many sentences are subtitle scraps with no complete thought: "하지만 난... 난...", "♪ 왜, 왜... ♪", "- 그냥 그렇게..". The card back shows the 'translation 2' field, which is often a wrong machine gloss ("How are you doing that day?" for 날 어떻게 한 거야?), and some translation 1 lines are off too. "볼 것도 없이 아니에요" becomes "Not to see." and "할 말 있으면 나한테 해!" becomes "Tell me what to say!". The deck teaches only 267 distinct words and misses 에서, 로, 때 and 한국 from the top 100 of the frequency list. It has no grammar notes, and the 'cloze course' never shows a blank, because the template displays the full sentence on the front.

Use it if you already read hangul and want a lot of short, repetitive, spoken-style Korean to listen to, as a supplement to a textbook or another deck that supplies grammar and a wider vocabulary. Skip it if you want a first course, a path to B1, or reliable English glosses. The description itself says the author replaced it with a better deck, so check that one first.

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phrase book · A1-B1 · 771 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2020

A 771-card Korean travel phrasebook with audio on every card and mostly useful phrases, but it is a topic list, not a graded course, and it has some wrong translations and slang filler.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: most cards are short, natural phrases a traveler would say, such as 어제 샀는데 환불할 수 있어요?, 덜 맵게 해주세요 and 지하철역까지 가는 길을 가르쳐 주세요, in a polite register, and every card has its own audio file (771 of 771; I can't judge the recording quality). Common words arrive early, with 90 of the top 100 taught. The weaknesses are real, though. The sample has a wrong translation (소화제 'Give me a fire extinguisher' when it means digestive medicine), loose glosses such as 'Owner, over here' for 사장님, and cards that are single words with no sentence (샴푸, 린스, 비누, 브로마이드 'bromide'). The order follows travel situations, not grammar or frequency. The opening is dense, with 38% of word tokens in sentences new in the first tenth, and the deck covers only 36% of the top 1,000 words. A block around cards 386-395 is insults and slang (미친놈, 나쁜 년). Nothing teaches grammar; sentences repeat frames like ~있어요? and ~주세요 without any explanation. Cards are one-direction Korean-to-English, with no images.

Use this if you are heading to Korea soon, already have some Korean reading ability, and want phrases to recognize and say with audio you can shadow. It also works as a supplement next to a textbook or app. Do not use it as your main course, as a way to build grammar, or if you need reliable translations without checking them. Beginners who cannot read Hangul yet will struggle, because there is no romanization or breakdown on the cards.

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sentence deck · A2-B1 · 246 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2022

A 246-card deck of subtitle lines from one Jung Kook camping vlog, with audio and a screenshot on every card; worth studying only if you want that vlog's casual speech and can supply your own structure.

Verdict

The deck does well at giving you real spoken Korean with audio and a screenshot on every card, and it picks up the very common words early (78 of the top 100 in the first stretch). Lines like "오늘은 삼겹살 구워 먹긴 해야 될 것 같아요" and "나 근데 캠핑 한다고 얘기는 했나?" are patterns you will hear in daily speech. It does badly at sequencing and teaching. Cards follow the vlog's chronology, not difficulty, so only 39% of sentences add one new word or fewer. Card #2 introduces 14 new items at once, and #22 ("움직이지 않지 않았을까") is a double-negative conjecture shown early with no explanation. Many cards are fragments cut mid-thought: #17 "근데 뭔가" is glossed only as "But", and #19 "잔잔하니까" only as "serene". The notes field is empty, so nothing explains grammar. Vocabulary is whatever the speaker said, which means 삼겹살, 묵은지, 차박 and BTS-specific lines sit next to core words, and the deck reaches only 24% of the top 1,000 words.

Use it if you are already around A2-B1, fan-motivated, and want listening practice on natural casual speech with a translation to check against. Do not use it as your main course or as a first deck. You get no grammar path and no frequency-driven vocabulary, and the early cards will frustrate a true beginner. Treat it as a supplement to a structured course, and expect to skip or suspend some of the fragment cards.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 625 notes · audio on 93% · updated November 2018

Lingodeer Korean is a 625-note vocabulary list with audio on 93% of notes and pictures on 42%; it is worth studying for the early vocabulary and little else.

Verdict

The deck's strength is word selection and audio. In the sample, the everyday words come first (사람, 한국, 가족, the numbers, 식당, 젓가락), and the deck teaches 92 of the 100 most common words on the frequency list, mostly in the first quarter. Most notes have a recording, and concrete nouns come with a picture. The weakness is that it is a word list. Only the few Sample Sentence fields hold real sentences, and those are scraped dictionary examples. One of them is wrong: 남자가 사과을 먹었어요 should use 를. The grammar cards are bare pattern labels such as 'stem + 아/어/여 봅시다' or 'verb stem + 지 않다' with no examples, so you see the pattern but never see it used. There are also errors: 내 is glossed 'agreement (yes)' where the word is 네, and 매뉴(판) is a misspelling of the loanword for menu. Topic tags are unreliable (바나나 is tagged 'possessive', 김치 'verb', 일주일 'sports'). Many multi-sense cards, like 차 ('tea, car, difference') and 분, pile unrelated meanings on one note. The Korean definitions are native-level dictionary text that a beginner cannot read.

Use it if you are following or have finished the Lingodeer Korean course, want its vocabulary and grammar labels in Anki with native audio, and will read sentences and grammar explanations elsewhere. It suits a learner who can edit notes and templates, since several fixes are small. Do not use it as your main resource, as a way to learn how Korean sentences work, or if you need graded reading. Past the first few hundred words it adds few frequent words: it covers 41% of the top 1,000 and 27% of the top 2,000, and in the sample it never teaches connectors such as 그리고 or 정말.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 355 notes · audio on 99% · updated March 2017

A 355-card Korean word list built from the Coursera First Step Korean course, with audio on nearly every card; useful as a companion to that course and thin as a standalone deck.

Verdict

The deck's strength is audio and clean cards: 352 of 355 notes have a sound file, and each card is just a Korean word on the front with an English gloss on the back. The order is thematic and matches the course weeks: syllable-practice nouns, then greetings, countries, family, places, numbers and time. What it lacks is context. In the sample, 97% of cards are single words or short phrases, and there are no example sentences. Grammar items like 은/는 ("topic marker") and ~부터 ("from~") are bare glosses with no usage. Vocabulary follows the syllabus, not frequency. The opening is a pronunciation drill of picture nouns (오이, 여우, 소나무, 요요), and the deck covers only 149 of the 1,000 most common words. Common particles and verbs such as 에, 도, 에서, 우리 and 있 never appear. Rare words like 도토리 (acorn) and 외동딸 (only daughter) show up early. About 18% of cards repeat an earlier front. 공항 appears in Week 1 and again in Week 5, and 세 and 네 appear in both Week 3 and Week 4. Some cards are ambiguous: 이 means both "2" and "tooth" and is told apart only by the "(Number)" tag on the number card.

Use this if you are working through the Coursera course and want a pronunciation-backed review list for each week's words. It also suits a true beginner who wants to hear and recognize Hangul-based words. Do not use it as your main Korean deck, as a way to learn how sentences work, or as a route to the most useful early vocabulary. You would need a second source for sentences, particles and everyday verbs.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 1,031 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2020

A 1,031-card Korean word list with audio on every card and pictures on most, built to accompany HowtoStudyKorean Unit 1, and useful only as a companion to that course, not on its own.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are mechanical. Every card has a recording (1,031 of 1,031), 75% have an image, and the glosses in the sample are accurate: 책 is "book", 돕다 is "to help", 혀 is "tongue". The opening is sensible, with concrete nouns like 한국, 학생, 탁자, 침대, followed by 이것, 저것 and 네. The weakness is that nothing here goes beyond single words. Only 6 of 1,007 measured notes are sentences, so there are no example sentences, no grammar notes, and no context. Within lessons the order looks alphabetical, as in L7 (춥다, 찾다, 짓다, 직장, 주다...), so related words are not grouped. Vocabulary drifts from 68% top-1,000 words in the first tenth to 27-37% later, and it includes items like 손목시계, 회계사, 교과목 and 연두색. It covers only 41% of the top 1,000 words, and it skips basics like 을, 의 and 에서, which is expected in a noun-and-verb list. Some cards carry stray markup, such as 모든« » and back fields showing «to be happy» with a blank line.

Use this if you are working through HowtoStudyKorean and want an audio-and-picture flashcard layer for its lesson vocabulary, ideally studying each lesson's cards (tags L1-L25) alongside the matching lesson. Skip it if you want a standalone course, want to see words in sentences, or want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary. It tests recognition only: you see Korean and hear it, then check the English. You will get no help producing the language, and you will have to learn grammar and word use somewhere else.

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Number 8 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · unclear · 7,627 notes · no audio · updated March 2015

A 7,627-card Korean vocabulary list with four scraped example sentences per card, broad in coverage but unreliable in order, glosses and sentences, so it is worth studying only if you already read Korean and check each card.

Verdict

The coverage is the strength. In the measurements the deck teaches 970 of the 1,000 most common words and 1,876 of the top 2,000, and most cards show a headword in several real sentences, such as 술집 in "우리 단골 술집에서 한잔할까?" The problems are order and trust. The opening cards are 비비 (glossed "windingly, twistingly" while the sub-word says "a baboon"), 극단1 and 피부과, while 많다 and 사람 come much later. Only 14.9% of sentences in the first tenth add at most one new word, and 27% of the word tokens there are new. Many sentences come from a bilingual corpus rather than from teaching material: thesis titles (가변), software strings (".bat 또는 .udf 확장을 응답 파일로 사용할 수 없습니다"), a 49-word news quotation on 존엄성, and one 37-word sentence pasted into three cards of 많다. Some glosses or sub-words do not match the headword or sentences. 별 has a "#NAME?" sub-word, 집도 'perform' has two sentences about the word 집, and 극단1 'extreme' has sentences about a theater troupe. The last notes hold placeholders: 직원, 배송 and 생각 have KS1 "mepty" and ES1 "empty". There is no audio and no image.

Use it if you are an upper-intermediate or advanced learner who wants a long checklist of vocabulary and can tell a wrong gloss or odd sentence when you see one. It works as a source for finding words you do not know, not as a course. Do not use it if you are a beginner, because the early cards are rare or specialized words in long sentences with no Korean support. Skip it too if you want trusted translations, listening practice, grammar instruction or a clear TOPIK level sequence. The title says TOPIK, but the file states no level and does not sort by one.

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sentence deck · B1-C1 · 122 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2012

A 122-card Korean sentence deck from nine TTMIK intermediate grammar lessons, with audio on every card; useful as a supplement to those lessons but too uneven and sparse to study on its own.

Verdict

The deck's strength is clustering. Each grammar point arrives as a run of near-identical sentences, and the formal/casual pairs are a good drill: #1 경고에도 불구하고 전혀 달라진 것이 없어요 is followed by #2 경고했는데도 전혀 달라진 게 없어요 with the same English, and #12-#21 swap 무섭게 for 바쁘게 across five pairs. Every card has a recording, and the cards are short enough to review quickly. The weaknesses are in the material. The opening card introduces 12 new words in a 12-word sentence, and the new-word rate jumps again in parts 3 and 4 (47% and 34%). The sample shows fragments such as #26 언제 가느냐에 따라 and repeated cards like 유명하다던데요 (#23, #115) and 지금 온다던데요 (#39, #91). It also shows typos in the Korean (#66 활씬, #100 괭장히, #112 절때, #67 한 있더라도 with a missing word) and translation errors or gaps (#11 "goverment", #101 "loosing"; #64, #67 and #100 have no English at all). The deck has no explanations, and it covers only 188 of the 1,000 most common words, leaving out basics like 우리, 시간 and 그리고.

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vocabulary list · A2-B1 · 500 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2023

A 500-word vocabulary list with audio on every card, built to accompany the TTMIK Book 2 word book; it is useful as a companion to that book but weak as a stand-alone course.

Verdict

The deck is tidy and mostly accurate. All 500 notes have a sound file (the measurement shows presence only, so play a few cards to check quality). Verbs sit in dictionary form, as in 졸리다 and 끊다, and the sampled glosses are nearly all right. There is one clear typo, 옷장 glossed as "closest" where "closet" is meant, and a few loose glosses: 방법 as "how", 금액 as "money", 막 as "harshly". The weaknesses are structural. Only 2 of 500 notes are sentences, so nothing shows how a word behaves in use. The order follows the book's topic chapters, not difficulty or frequency. Rare words come early, such as 해외여행 at card 13 and 등록증 at card 21, and both rank past 11,000 on the frequency list. Each tenth of the deck adds about 50 new words, with no ramp-up and no review of earlier material. The front of the card shows only an English cue, so ambiguous glosses like "to put" (두다), "to break" (깨지다) or "to save" (저축하다) can have more than one Korean answer.

Use this if you already know roughly the first 500 Korean words (the Book 1 level), you are working through the TTMIK Book 2 word book, and you want audio-backed flashcards for those words. It also suits an A2-B1 learner who wants topic vocabulary such as work, travel, household items and clothing, and will learn grammar and usage elsewhere. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you want example sentences or grammar explained, or if you want the most frequent words first. The deck covers only 124 of the 1,000 most common words on the list. That is expected for a second-level book, so treat it as a supplement and not a core vocabulary path.

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vocabulary list · A2-C1 · 3,266 notes · no audio · updated February 2017

A 3,266-card list of Sino-Korean words with hanja breakdowns, useful as a supplement for learners who want to study hanja, but weak as a main way to learn Korean.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it teaches how Sino-Korean words are built. Cards cluster around shared characters, so 학 (學) recurs through 유학생, 수학, 문학, 학년 and 과학자 in the first 30 cards, and every back shows each syllable's hanja and gloss. The sample's Hangul-hanja pairings and English glosses are mostly right. It is weak everywhere else: no sentences, audio, images or grammar notes, and every card is one Korean-to-English direction. The character glosses come straight from a Unicode database, so some are poor fits, such as 지(只) 'only' in 지금 and a long planets-of-astronomy gloss on 요 in 일요일. Frequency is only loose. The deck covers 541 of the top 1,000 words and 1,020 of the top 2,000, and the share of top-1,000 words in each tenth falls from 27% to 15%. Rare words like 외할아버지, 이발소 and 약혼녀 appear within the first few hundred cards. Study order is also shifted: the Number field runs 41 to 3,266 and then 1 to 40, so the 'first' cards are actually at the end.

Use it if you already read some Korean, are comfortable with hanja or want to be, and plan to learn sentences and listening elsewhere. It suits lower-intermediate to advanced learners who keep meeting two-syllable abstract words and want to see their parts. Skip it if you are a beginner, since there is no everyday core, or if you want to learn to understand or speak Korean. A single-direction word list with no context will not get you there on its own.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 240 notes · no audio · updated May 2019

A bare-bones, lesson-ordered vocabulary list for Talk To Me In Korean Level 1 that works only as a companion to the course, and it is not worth studying alone.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its order: 25 lesson subdecks, 240 notes, mostly one word per card, and a clean two-way template (Korean to English, English to Korean). The words are mostly practical beginner vocabulary like 물, 가방, 학교, 가다 and 자다. Beyond that it is thin. It has no audio, no images and no example sentences (232 of 238 measured notes are single words or short phrases), so nothing shows how a word is used or pronounced. Grammar is reduced to isolated cards such as '-예요, -이에요 / to be, is, ...' and '이 / this (near you)'. The sample also has real errors: 한간 for 한강, 몇 실이에요? for 몇 살이에요?, 번이 glossed as 'TV channel', and 'Summer weathet'. The gloss for 이 is wrong, since 이 refers to something near the speaker. Frequency coverage is low, with 140 of the top 1,000 Korean words taught, and rare items like 복숭아 (peach) and 유람선 (cruise ship) appear well before common ones.

Use this if you are already taking the TTMIK Level 1 lessons, can read Hangul, and want a quick vocabulary drill to match each lesson. The lesson subdecks let you pace it alongside the course. Do not use it as your main resource or as a way to learn Korean from scratch. Without the lessons, you get no grammar, no sentences, no sound, and some wrong forms that you could memorize without knowing they are wrong.

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Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 500 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2021

A clean 500-card Korean A1 word list with audio on every note, but it has no sentences and no grammar, so it works only as a supplement.

Verdict

The deck does one thing carefully. Each note is a Korean headword in dictionary form (바쁘다, 마시다, 입다) with a short, correct English gloss, grouped into Day subdecks of about 10 cards, and every note has audio. The measurements show the limits. Only 3 of 495 measured notes are longer than a few words, so there is no sentence to see a word used in, and the deck never teaches a particle or ending. The most common items on the frequency list (을, 에, 의, 은, 도, 에서) appear nowhere. The order is not built around frequency either. The share of top-1,000 words among new words is 48% in the first tenth and 44% in the last, and the second card is 회사원 (company employee). Rare words like 목도리 (scarf) and 설거지 (washing dishes) turn up in the middle, and the deck covers only 25% of the top 1,000 words. Audio is present on every card, but I could not hear it, so check the recordings yourself.

Use this if you are an absolute beginner who already has a textbook or lesson series, such as TTMIK, and you want a daily batch of about 10 new words with sound to drill alongside it. A short Day set is easy to keep up. Do not use it as your main route to reading or speaking Korean. You will learn what 바쁘다 means but not how to say "I am busy", and you will not meet a single particle or conjugated verb. If you want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary, or sentences to learn from, pick a different deck.

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sentence deck · A1-A2 · 1,454 notes · no audio · updated August 2020

A 1,454-card Korean grammar sentence deck with a real TOPIK I syllabus and a grammar note on every card, but with a rough opening, scattered errors and no audio; worth using as a supplement, not as a first course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its structure. Patterns come in runs of several sentences, each with an explanation on the back. For example, the -(으)려면 cards (#1095-1099) show the pattern five times with different nouns and objects. The 98 of the 100 most common words appear, mostly in the first quarter, and the new-word rate settles to about 9%, with 86% of sentences in the last tenth adding at most one new word. The weaknesses are in the early cards and the details. Card 1 introduces 6 of 6 new words beside a 31-word English note. Only 20% of the first tenth's sentences add at most one new word. Fragments such as 엄청난 빚 and 부자다 appear before the learner has the basics. The sample has real errors: 잃어보렸어 in #12 (almost certainly 잃어버렸어), 어떡하다 where 어떻게 is meant in #1242, and a translation of 'Children have a gold time' in #1091. It also has spacing slips that contradict the deck's own notes, such as 이 것은 and 일요일 이라서, even though the notes say -이- cannot be written spaced from the noun. Example nouns are often odd or rare (보드카, 광우병, 유방암, 사정거리), and the patterns drift past A1-A2, for instance reported speech and -(으)려나 보-. The deck is not a vocabulary deck either: it teaches 62% of the top 1,000 words and 44% of the top 2,000.

Use it if you can already read Hangul, know a few hundred words, and want a bank of example sentences for each TOPIK I pattern next to a textbook or class. You need to be able to doubt a card when something looks off. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs a gentle ramp, if you want to learn pronunciation, or if you want a frequency-ordered vocabulary. It has no sound, no images and no connected context, so it will not train listening or give you words in a story.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 812 notes · no audio · updated August 2020

A word-by-word companion to TTMIK's Real-Life Korean Conversations lessons, useful only if you are taking those lessons, and not worth studying as a standalone deck.

Verdict

The cards are clean and mostly accurate: Korean on the front, a short English gloss on the back, such as 안녕하세요 / Hello, 영수증 / receipt, 양파 / onion. The 40 situation subdecks (Clothing Store, Pharmacy, Taxi) give each lesson's words a home, and the sampled glosses are right apart from small slips like 사백구십만 / "4 million 9 hundred thousand" and a stray trailing comma on one 없다 card. The material is thin, though. In the sample, almost every card is a single word in dictionary form (95% of measured notes are words or short phrases), with no example sentence, no grammar cue and no audio. The deck has 812 notes but only 421 distinct words. 어디, 보다, 있다, 없다 and 주다 come back in several subdecks as separate cards with the same gloss, so you review them again and again. Order follows lesson topic, not difficulty: the new-word rate stays around 50-60% to the end, and odd items like 땡땡이 and 메뉴판 sit among the basics. Coverage of common Korean is low, with 22% of the 1,000 most frequent words taught.

Use this if you are working through the TTMIK Real-Life Korean Conversations lessons and want to drill each lesson's vocabulary before or after you read the dialogue. Skip it if you want a self-contained beginner course, because nothing here shows a word in a sentence or teaches how verbs are used. Verbs appear as 반갑다 or 뵙다, but a learner will meet the conjugated forms the dialogues actually use, and the deck never bridges that gap.

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Number 9 in our ranking. Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 10 in our ranking. Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · B1-C1 · 5,006 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2024

Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 5,006-note Korean vocabulary list (Part 3 of an 11k set) with a two-line dialogue and audio on every card, useful as a B1-C1 word bank if you check its glosses and don't expect a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is the format. Each headword sits in a short, natural exchange, such as 빈털터리 in the lottery-winner dialogue or 해일 in the beach-alarm one. Every note has an audio file, and the gloss is on the back. Words are not ordered by frequency or need: the sample starts at 가공, 가급적, 가느다랗다 and runs alphabetically within each note type (simple, then complex, then missing). The type groups sit side by side with no separator. Ordinary words like 단, 정 and 부디 land next to 가야금 and 함흥차사, and nothing marks which are worth learning first. There are no grammar notes, so grammar comes up only as it happens in the dialogues. The sentences also don't stay within what you already know. In the opening tenth only 8.7% of sentences add at most one new word, and that share rises to 83% by the end, so early cards often bring in several unfamiliar words at once. Accuracy is the weak point. In about ninety sampled notes there are clear gloss and translation errors. 자네 is glossed "jane" (in the sample it is an older speaker saying "you" to a younger one). 가상 is "imagination" where the sentence says "virtual space". 가책 is "admonishment" where it means pangs of conscience. 가뜩이나 is rendered "removing more fat when it's already so dry". 우직하다 is "stupid and tactless" in the gloss but "honest" in the sentence translation.

Use this if you already read Korean at roughly B1 and want a large, audio-backed pool of mid-to-advanced words, including Sino-Korean abstract terms like 철저, 첨예하다 and 독창적, to review a few at a time and correct as you go. Skip it if you want a guided path, grammar teaching, or a deck whose English you can trust without checking. A beginner would be overwhelmed by the density of unknown words, and a learner who needs frequency-ordered core vocabulary would spend time on rare items such as 불장난, 경각심 and 함흥차사. The samples show 2,000-word coverage of 83% across the whole file, but that is spread through an alphabetical order, so nothing tells you which cards matter most.

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vocabulary list · A2-B2 · 3,906 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2024

Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 3,906-note Korean vocabulary list with a recording and two-line dialogue on every card, but it runs alphabetically rather than by difficulty, and the glosses have too many errors to study unchecked.

Verdict

Every headword sits in a short, natural two-turn exchange, such as 가습기 ("방이 좀 건조한 거 같은데." / "그렇지? «가습기» 좀 틀어야겠다."), and all 3,906 notes carry audio. The weaknesses are in order and accuracy. The sample runs alphabetically (가난, 가능, 가렵다; later 속눈썹, 속상하다, 속하다; then 놀랍다, 높아지다, 놓아두다), so common words such as 제발 and 아무튼 sit next to niche ones such as 가스레인지 purely by spelling. Only 13% of sentences in the first tenth add one new word or fewer, and card 1 has 12 of 12 words new in its first sentence. Each card pairs a few new words with a long sentence rather than a controlled step. About eight of roughly ninety sampled notes have real errors: 귀하 is glossed "gwiha", 표준어 as "official language", 손뼉 as "palm", and 미처 as "beforehand". The 단정하다 note translates its first line as "Because Seunggyu doesn't want to lie for no reason". 더불다 comes out as "can't live with anyone «do together»". There is no grammar sequence or explanation, and the 'stars' field reads 2 in every sampled note, so it gives no ordering help.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 40 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2013

Alphabet trainer: the letters of hangul.

A complete, tidy 40-card jamo deck with audio on every note, worth studying as a first pass at the letters if you check two wrong cards and add your own syllable practice.

Verdict

The deck covers every basic jamo: 19 consonants (ㄱ to ㅎ) and 21 vowels (ㅏ to ㅢ). Each card holds one large letter, and the answer gives the letter name, a romanization, an IPA-style transcription and a recording. Both directions are generated, so you go from letter to name and from name back to letter. Two cards in the sample have real errors. ㅍ shows the phonetics [tʰ], which is ㅌ's sound, where it should be [pʰ]. ㅎ is named 히읕, which is ㅌ's ending, where the name is 히읗. The Diphthong tag on ㅐ and ㅔ is also debatable. The order is the dictionary sequence, so the tense consonants ㄲ, ㄸ and ㅃ come before you have settled the plain ones, and ㅆ comes before ㅅ. The deck stops at isolated letters. There are no syllable blocks, no final consonants, no example words and no sound-change rules, so nothing shows you how the letters combine when you read.

Use it as a short drill for recognizing the 40 jamo and tying each to its sound, ideally alongside a lesson or video that explains how syllables are built. It is a poor fit if you want to learn to read Korean from this deck alone, or if you need vocabulary or sentences. It teaches no words at all, so it will not move you toward the common words you need next. Fix the two wrong cards before you study them, or you will memorize the errors.

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alphabet or script deck · unclear · 314 notes · no audio · updated May 2016

Hanja: the chinese characters used in korean.

A 314-card Hanja deck with one clean card per character, useful for a Korean learner who already knows many Sino-Korean words, but with no translations, audio, sentences or images, so it works only as a supplement.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is its structure. Each card shows one large character on the front. The back gives the component radical, the native gloss (훈) and Sino-Korean sound (음) side by side, an English gloss, and up to six compounds with their Hanja in brackets, for example 一 → 한 / 일 (one) with 제일 [第一], 통일 [統一]. The opening runs from numerals and simple characters (一, 人, 十, 日, 二, 大) to more complex ones, so components come before the characters built from them. The compound lists are mostly common words (공부 [工夫], 전화 [電話], 회사 [會社]). The weaknesses are in what is missing and in the ordering. The examples have no translations and no context, and none of the 314 notes has audio or an image. The order mixes difficulty and frequency, so grade-3 characters like 了 (#14), 乙 (#17) and 兮 (#307) sit beside grade-8 ones, while common characters like 長 (#192), 食 (#241), 話 (#238) and 雨 (#239) come late. There are also small accuracy slips: 欠 is glossed 'low quality', 丁 is glossed 'person' while its Korean gloss means the fourth heavenly stem, and 공포 is spelled [栱包] under 包.

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alphabet or script deck · unclear · 1,946 notes · no audio · updated September 2020

Hanja: the chinese characters used in korean, explained in korean.

A 1,946-card Hanja recognition deck with Korean-only glosses and image-based mnemonics, ordered by sound family rather than usefulness, so it works as a reference set more than a study path.

Verdict

The deck does one job clearly: the front shows a single large character, such as 詠 or 雲, and the back gives a Korean gloss and reading like 읊을 «영» or 구름 «운». Same-sound characters sit together (建/健, 兼/謙, 弟/第, 忍/認), which helps you notice shared phonetic parts. The weaknesses are in order and content. The deck opens with rare characters (攝, 詠, 魂) and puts basics such as 天 and 圖 at the very end, and the sample shows radicals scattered through the deck rather than taught first. It has no example words in text and no audio. The Formation, image and examples fields hold only images or a 부수 label in the sample, so the mnemonics and any usage examples can't be assessed here. I also found a few doubtful glosses: 償 is given as '깊을' where '갚을' is the standard gloss, and 絶 is glossed '으뜸' instead of '끊을'. Measurements show 0% audio, 100% images and no duplicate first fields, but no frequency check was possible because the counts are per character.

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sentence deck · A2-B1 · 118 notes · audio on 100% · updated December 2023

Pronunciation trainer: how sentences sound in connected speech.

A pronunciation-focused set of 118 Korean sentences that shows how spoken Korean sounds different from the written form; useful as a supplement, weak as a course.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is its respelling field. Each note shows how the sentence is actually said: 옛날엔 becomes «얜나랜», 있어요 becomes «이써요», 거예요 becomes «꺼애요». Every note has audio and an image, and some small clusters work as minimal pairs. The 컴퓨터를 고치는데 / 사는데 / 사는 데 notes (#4, #5, #49) and the 안에 있어요 / 밖에 있어요 / 안에 없어요 notes (#46-48) are examples. The weaknesses are in the material itself. The sentences are long from the start: card 3 is 당신 때문에 우리가 이렇게 생고생하고 있잖아요!, and the new-word rate settles around 20% and stays there. Only 22% of sentences add one new word or fewer, so most cards bring in several unknowns. There is no visible grammar order, and each explanation is a YouTube link rather than text on the card. Vocabulary coverage is thin (371 distinct words, 209 of the top 1,000). The sample also has real errors. #80 translates 제가 당신을 위해 찾아 줄 수도 아닐 수도 있어요 (roughly 'I might or might not find it for you') as 'I could find it for you'. #82 uses 외국에 있어 본 적이 없어요 for 'never been abroad', which reads oddly. #25's English is 'Can I give you an advice?'.

Use this if you already read Hangul comfortably, know basic polite endings, and want to hear and see how spoken Korean contracts and shifts sounds. It is a pronunciation supplement to a course, not a replacement for one. Skip it if you are a true beginner, want a frequency-ordered vocabulary path, or want grammar taught on the card. The sentences assume more Korean than A2 supplies. Play several cards before you commit, because the audio and images are only confirmed to be present, not good, and the sample shows the author is a native speaker but not a careful editor of the English.

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alphabet or script deck · unclear · 1,800 notes · no audio · updated August 2012

Hanja: the 1,800 characters taught in korean schools, explained in korean.

A complete list of the 1,800 school Hanja with Korean readings, meanings and example compounds, but sorted alphabetically by reading and with no audio, so it works as a reference list more than a study path.

Verdict

The deck's strength is the content on each card. The character set is the Korean middle and high school list, the front is a single character, and the back gives the reading, a short Korean gloss and a few compounds. In the sample the readings and meanings are almost all right (加 가 "더하다 (add)", 休 휴 "쉬다(rest)", 黑 흑 "검다(black)"). The weakness is order and support. Notes run by Korean reading, from 가 through 희, so rare characters like 架 (시렁, 횃대) and 却 sit among the first cards while common ones like 中 (card #1394) and 化 (#1754) come late. Nothing sorts by frequency or difficulty. The compounds are uncontrolled: many are useful (空間, 家族, 習慣), but others are long idioms with no reading or gloss (一刻如三秋, 烏合之卒, 查頓之間), and many bring in characters you have not met. There is no audio and no images, and the measurements confirm none. Some entries look doubtful: 妄覺 sits under 忘, and 足相 and 方道 are odd choices. Punctuation is inconsistent (trailing periods, a stray "_" in 季嫂(_수)).

Use it if you already read Korean and want a free, complete list of the school Hanja to learn in your own order or to check readings against. It is a poor fit if you are a beginner in Korean, since every gloss is Korean, or if you want a guided route into Hanja. Each card tests one direction only, with no sentences, so you will have to supply your own context.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 27 notes · audio on 100% · updated July 2020

Numbers drill: native korean numbers.

A 27-card audio list of native Korean numbers (하나 to 아흔) that works as a short first drill on the number system but teaches nothing beyond bare recognition.

Verdict

The deck is accurate and well ordered. The sample is the whole deck, and every pair is correct: 하나 → 1, 열하나 → 11, 스물 → 20, 아흔 → 90. It runs 1-10, then 열 plus a digit for 11-19, then the tens, so the 열 + unit pattern is visible without explanation. Every card has an audio file (I can confirm the files exist, not that they sound good). The cards are minimal, and the single-word format keeps each one easy to grade. The deck also has real gaps. It has no sentences, no counters and no example of a number in use. It leaves out 한, 두, 세, 네 and 스무, the forms you actually hear before a counter, and it stops at 90. The cards only ask you to recognize a word and give its digit. The styling is also sloppy: the font declaration is misspelled ("font-familiy"), and the answer text is pale blue on white.

Use it if you are a true beginner who wants to hear the native Korean numbers and attach them to digits in one sitting, or if you want a small deck to add to a larger course. Skip it if you want to learn to use numbers for ages, hours, or counting objects. The deck never shows a number inside a phrase, so you will need another source for that. Play several cards before committing, since audio quality could not be judged.

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exam word list · unclear · 5,978 notes · no audio · updated December 2020

Hanja: made for native speakers preparing for certification exams.

A clean, accurate single-character list for the Korean Hanja exam (8급 through 특급) that works only as a memorization aid for Korean readers, not as a way to learn to read.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it follows the official 배정한자표 in exam-grade order, with 16 subdecks from 8급 to 특급, and every card I could check was correct. In the sample, 一 "한 일", 國 "나라 국", 鹽 "소금 염" and 鰒 "전복 복" all carry the right gloss and reading, with radical and stroke counts and a tone mark where the exam distinguishes long vowels. Both directions are made for every note: character to reading and meaning, and meaning and sound back to the character. It has nothing else. There are no compounds, no example words, no sentences, no audio and no images, so every card is a bare character with a gloss. Within a grade, notes follow radical and stroke order, not usefulness, so 一, 七, 三, 中 arrive in the order of the radical table. The deck's own description says to treat it as a supplement to a Hanja textbook, and that is fair.

Use it if you read Korean and are preparing for a 한국어문회 exam, and want a pocket drill for the character list alongside a workbook. It also suits someone who wants to pace themselves by exam grade. Do not use it to learn how Hanja are used in Korean words or classical text, if you need Korean explanations translated, or if you are not studying for the exam. The upper tiers, which are the bulk of the deck, are mostly rare characters such as 輞, 轝 and 鼗 with a one-line gloss. Past the opening, only about 1% of new items fall in the top 5,000 of the frequency list. That is the nature of the exam list, but it means the later grades are exam memorization with little payoff outside the test.

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mixed · A1 · 52 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2015

Pronunciation trainer: minimal pairs.

A 52-card audio drill for hearing Korean plain, tense and aspirated consonants apart, worth a short, focused pass by beginners but not a course.

Verdict

The deck does one narrow job cleanly. Each prompt is a fixed frame such as "Do you hear 기, 끼, or 키?" with one audio clip, and the back names the syllable, for example "You heard 끼." Every card follows that same format, and the sets are grouped by consonant series: 기/끼/키, 겁/껍/컵, 불/뿔/풀, then 삼/쌈, 서/써, 시/씨, and 자/짜/차. The syllables in the sample are spelled correctly and are real contrasts. The same prompt repeats on two or three consecutive cards, one per option, so in the default new-card order you hear 기, then 끼, then 키 every time, and that order can be guessed. The deck also teaches no words, sentences or grammar, and it never says what any syllable means (달 and 딸 are real words, but you get only the sound). It never explains how the sounds differ. Difficulty stays flat from card 1 to card 52, and the stylesheet's font setting is misspelled ("font-familiy"), so it has no effect. I cannot judge the recordings, so you need to play a few yourself.

Use it if you have just learned Hangul and your ear merges ㄱ/ㄲ/ㅋ, ㅂ/ㅃ/ㅍ or ㅈ/ㅉ/ㅊ into one sound. It works as a warm-up next to a real course, in short sessions on a few sets at a time. Skip it if you want vocabulary, sentences or grammar, if you cannot yet read Hangul, or if you want an explanation of how the sounds are produced. It trains the ear on isolated syllables and nothing more, and the sample shows no vowel, final-consonant or in-context practice.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 214 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2020

Pronunciation trainer: minimal pairs for listening.

A focused listening drill for Korean plain, tense and aspirated consonants and similar vowels; worth studying if you already read Hangul and want ear training, and for nothing else.

Verdict

In the sample, the deck does one job and does it with a clear plan. Each card shows two or three syllable options and plays a recording ("사 or 싸?", "가, 까 or 카?"). The Back gives the right syllable, and the deck works through one consonant family at a time. It covers the contrasts learners usually struggle with, such as 서/소, 우/으, 구/쿠 and 지/찌/치, and it ends with five-syllable strings like "도 토 토 도 토". It has no words, sentences, grammar notes or context, which is expected for a sound drill. The weaker points are practical. The answer text is pale blue on white. The last 15 or so cards have no Back and no instruction, so you can't check your answer. Hard contrasts like 서/써 and 우/으 show up in the first dozen cards, and there is no gentle ramp. I can't hear the audio, so whether each clip matches its answer is unchecked, and that matters a lot here because the audio is the card.

Use it as a daily supplement if you can already read Hangul and want to separate 사/싸, 더/떠/터 and 어/오 by ear, ideally with headphones and by repeating each sound aloud. Skip it if you want vocabulary, sentences or a course, or if you are still learning to read the letters. It teaches no letter names and gives no explanation of the sound differences. It also won't tell you how these contrasts sound inside real, fast speech, since it uses isolated syllables from slow, clear speech.

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