Fundamental Vocabulary to Learn Korean

Do you love watching K-dramas or singing K-pop in the shower? If so, youโ€™ve come to the right place! This deck teaches you all the core vocabulary and grammar you need to kickstart your Korean learning. It holds your hand from learning your first word in Korean all the way to understanding complex sentences. You will develop an instinctual understanding of Korean so you can enjoy your favorite Korean media.

What's included

  • 100 days of vocabulary practice

  • Custom-made example sentences

  • Authentic native audio

  • Downloadable Anki flashcard deck

  • Access on desktop, mobile, or web

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The most critical vocabulary to learn Korean

Refold is focused on teaching you to understand real Korean. The biggest obstacle to understanding a language is vocabulary. We created this deck so you can learn the most important words as fast as possible.

When you finish this deck, youโ€™ll have the knowledge and confidence you need to understand about 85% of Korean dramas and YouTube videos. Before you know it, youโ€™ll be watching K-dramas and LOVING them.

Optimized for your learning

About 99% of the sentences in this deck introduce only one thing: either a new word or a useful grammar point. You will never feel overwhelmed by there being too many new things on one card. Best of all, when you are done with this deck youโ€™ll know exactly what kind of sentences to look for when making your own cards in Anki.

Grammar AND Vocab?

In addition to the amazing features that learners love in our other decks, we added grammar tips to our KO1K deck! This allows you to learn grammar in context alongside new vocabulary.

Korean grammar can be challenging, but the grammar knowledge you get from the KO1K will make understanding TV shows or books a lot easier.

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Features of the deck

Native Audio

Learn what Korean actually sounds like with high-quality audio recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Descriptive Images

Reinforce what you learn with concrete, high-resolution visuals

Example Sentences

Learn words in context with custom-made example sentences based on real, spoken Korean.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Do I need to study additional grammar if I use this deck?

    You do not need to study additional grammar if you use this deck. This deck will teach you the basic grammar you need to get started enjoying Korean TV shows and movies. You can pick up the rest by just listening to and reading a lot of Korean media content.

  • Couldn't I build my own deck?

    Yep! It just takes time, energy, and effort. The Korean deck took our team of data scientists, high-level Korean learners, and Korean natives about 150 hours to create. We’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to.

  • Why shouldn't I use Duolingo?

    If it’s your first time studying a language, then you probably should.

    Duolingo is a language-learning video game. It’s a great way to try out a language to see if you like it and to build a daily habit of engaging with the language.

    Unfortunately, it doesn’t get you very far, and definitely won’t help you understand Korean.

  • Aren't there free decks available?

    Yep! But they have a few problems:

    1. They aren’t focused on helping you understand TV shows and casual conversation.
    2. They haven’t filtered out the “easy words”.
    3. They don’t have native audio.
    4. The example sentences (if they even have any) are crowdsourced and usually low quality.

    If you want to use a free deck, here’s the best weโ€™ve found:ย https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1551455917

  • Will this make me fluent?

    NO! This just builds the initial foundation for understanding Korean. Fluency comes after thousands of hours spent with the language.

  • What content should I consume with the deck?

    Check out ourย Korean quickstart guideย for content recommendations.

  • I finished the deck, now what?

    Congrats ๐Ÿฅณ! Head on over to ourย guide on sentence miningย to learn how to make cards directly from your immersion.

  • How were the words chosen?

    We selected the most common words from real Korean TV shows and some popular English TV shows.

    Native Korean TV shows used:

    • Mine (๋งˆ์ธ) Season 1′
    • Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) (๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์ž‘์‚ฌ ์ดํ˜ผ์ž‘๊ณก) Seasons 1-3′
    • Hello, Me! (์•ˆ๋…•? ๋‚˜์•ผ!) Season 1′
    • Boys Over Flowers (๊ฝƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚จ์ž) Season 1′
    • Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (๊ฐฏ๋งˆ์„ ์ฐจ์ฐจ์ฐจ) Season 1′
    • Crash Landing on You (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์˜ ๋ถˆ์‹œ์ฐฉ) Season 1′
    • Run On (๋Ÿฐ ์˜จ) Season 1′
    • Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (๋„๋„์†”์†”๋ผ๋ผ์†”) Season 1′
    • Mad for Each Other (์ด ๊ตฌ์—ญ์˜ ๋ฏธ์นœ X) Season 1′
    • My Holo Love (๋‚˜ ํ™€๋กœ ๊ทธ๋Œ€) Season 1′
    • The King’s Affection (์—ฐ๋ชจ) Season 1″
    • Romance Is a Bonus Book (๋กœ๋งจ์Šค๋Š” ๋ณ„์ฑ…๋ถ€๋ก) Season 1′
    • Lovestruck in the City (๋„์‹œ๋‚จ๋…€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฒ•) Season 1′
    • Love Alarm (์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š”) Seasons 1-2′
    • The King: Eternal Monarch (๋” ํ‚น: ์˜์›์˜ ๊ตฐ์ฃผ) Season 1′
    • Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (์‹ ์ž…์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๊ตฌํ•ด๋ น) Season 1′
    • So Not Worth It (๋‚ด์ผ ์ง€๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด) Season 1′
    • My First First Love (์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๋ผ์„œ) Seasons 1-2′
    • My secret romance (์• ํƒ€๋Š” ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค) Season 1′
    • Navillera (๋‚˜๋นŒ๋ ˆ๋ผ) Season 1′
    • Nevertheless, (์•Œ๊ณ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ,) Season 1′
    • Our Beloved Summer (๊ทธ ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š”) Season 1′
    • One Spring Night (๋ด„๋ฐค) Season 1′
    • Singleโ€™s Inferno (์†”๋กœ์ง€์˜ฅ) Season 1′
    • Business Proposal (์‚ฌ๋‚ด๋งž์„ ) Season 1′
    • It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (์‚ฌ์ด์ฝ”์ง€๋งŒ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„) Season 1″
    • That Winter, The Wind Blows (๊ทธ ๊ฒจ์šธ, ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ„๋‹ค) Season 1′
    • You Are My Spring (๋„ˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ด„) Season 1′
    • A Love So Beautiful (์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๋˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ) Season 1′
    • Move to Heaven (๋ฌด๋ธŒ ํˆฌ ํ—ค๋ธ: ๋‚˜๋Š” ์œ ํ’ˆ์ •๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) Season 1′
    • Extracurricular (์ธ๊ฐ„์ˆ˜์—…) Season 1′
    • Start-Up (์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…) Season 1′
    • Bulgasal: Immortal Souls (๋ถˆ๊ฐ€์‚ด) Season 1′
    • Tomorrow (๋‚ด์ผ) Season 1′
    • The Uncanny Counter (๊ฒฝ์ด๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๋ฌธ) Season 1′
    • Goedam (๋„์‹œ๊ดด๋‹ด) Season 1′
    • Stranger (๋น„๋ฐ€์˜ ์ˆฒ) Seasons 1-2′
    • Deserter Pursuit (๋””ํ”ผ) Season 1′
    • The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (๋ ˆ์ธ์ฝ”ํŠธ ํ‚ฌ๋Ÿฌ: ์œ ์˜์ฒ ์„ ์ถ”๊ฒฉํ•˜๋‹ค) Season 1′
    • Inspector Koo (๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ์ด) Season 1′
    • Juvenile Justice (์†Œ๋…„ ์‹ฌํŒ) Season 1′
    • The Silent Sea (๊ณ ์š”์˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค) Season 1′
    • Hanwoo Rhapsody (ํ•œ์šฐ ๋žฉ์†Œ๋””) Season 1′
    • All of Us Are Dead (์ง€๊ธˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•™๊ต๋Š”) Season 1′
    • Korean Pork Belly Rhapsody (ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด ๋žฉ์†Œ๋””) Season 1′
    • Korean Cold Noodle Rhapsody (ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ƒ‰๋ฉด ๋žฉ์†Œ๋””) Season 1′
    • Record of Youth (์ฒญ์ถ˜๊ธฐ๋ก) Season 1′
    • My Name (๋งˆ์ด ๋„ค์ž„) Season 1′
    • Hellbound (์ง€์˜ฅ) Season 1′
    • Kingdom (ํ‚น๋ค) Seasons 1-2′
    • Rugal (๋ฃจ๊ฐˆ) Season 1′
    • Sisyphus: The Myth (์‹œ์ง€ํ”„์Šค: the myth) Season 1′
    • Squid Game (์˜ค์ง•์–ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„) Season 1′
    • Sweet Home (์Šค์œ„ํŠธํ™ˆ) Season 1′
    • Hospital Playlist (์Šฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ์šด ์˜์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ) Seasons 1-2′
    • Vagabond (๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€๋ณธ๋“œ) Season 1′
    • Private Lives (์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ) Season 1′
    • Vincenzo (๋นˆ์„ผ์กฐ) Season 1′

     

    Non-Korean TV shows with Korean subs used:

    • Community Seasons 1-6′
    • Glee Seasons 1-6′
    • Seinfeld Seasons 1-9′
    • The IT Crowd Seasons 1-4′
    • Unbreakable Kimmy Shmidt Seasons 1-4′
  • Are the sentences 1T?

    Yes, about 99% of the sentences in this deck are 1T. This means that for 99% of the example sentences, you will already know every word in the sentence, except for the new word you’re learning. This makes learning new words much faster and easier!

  • Whatโ€™s new in version 2?

    • Better word selection for learners who want to dive right into watching real Korean TV shows.
    • Hand-crafted example sentences.
    • All of the audio clips are now in Standard Korean (ํ‘œ์ค€์–ด), the dialect spoken in Seoul.
    • Images to help cement new words in your brain.
    • A beautiful and streamlined design.
  • Can I upgrade from version 1 to version 2?

    Since this deck is a COMPLETE rebuild, it is not possible to upgrade from version 1 to version 2. Every single part of the version 2 deck is different from version 1.

    If youโ€™d like, you can start over with the version 2 deck and just suspend the words you already know from the version 1 deck.

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