Learn Korean
Hangul was designed, on purpose, to be learned quickly, and it is the one writing system where that claim holds. Twenty-four letters, shaped to hint at what the mouth is doing, packed into square syllable blocks. iLexiBox starts there and stays there until the blocks read themselves, because everything else in Korean gets easier once the script has stopped costing you attention.
Start at hangul
The Korean on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 467 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Korean voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.
- 24jamo letters
- 10digits
- 13pronunciation rules
- 300core words
- 60everyday phrases
- 60sentences
Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:
- 한글 — letters are not written in a line — they stack into square syllable blocks: ㅎ + ㅏ + ㄴ = 한한국 — Korea
- ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅊ — the extra stroke means an extra puff of air — hold a hand to your mouth and feel it커피 — coffee
- ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ — a doubled letter is TENSE: no puff of air, throat tight, said sharply꽃 — flower
Then material that does not run out
Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Korean at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.
Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.
2,373 photographs, 2,337 of them captioned in Korean
The album is a photograph for every word, shelved by category, each caption written in Korean and spoken in a real recorded voice rather than synthesised on the fly. It doubles as a game: see the picture, spell the word. Free to replay.
What Korean actually costs a beginner
The block is the first adjustment: letters are not written in a line, they are stacked into a syllable, so ㅎ, ㅏ and ㄴ become 한. After that come two distinctions English does not make. An added stroke means an added puff of air, so ㅋ is not ㄱ. A doubled letter is tense — no puff at all, throat tight, said sharply. Plain, aspirated and tense are three different consonants and three different words, and no spelling conveys the difference, so each one is a card with a recorded Korean voice.
54 languages in the app, CEFR A1–C2.