가자 Kaja Hangul

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You finished — what now?

Kaja Hangul takes you to roughly A2: introducing yourself, following a conversation, handling a shop or a dinner table, saying what you think. That is a real foundation — and it is the point where a single app stops being the right tool. Here is what actually works next, curated and free-or-cheap. None of these are affiliate links; we make nothing either way.

Keep the reviews alive

Whatever you do next, keep your Kaja reviews going a few minutes a day — the spaced schedule is what stops the foundation dissolving while you build on it. You can also export everything you've learned from the You tab, as a CSV that imports straight into Anki or a spreadsheet.

Structured grammar, B1 and beyond

• Talk To Me In Korean — the gold standard for friendly grammar lessons. After Kaja, start around their Level 3–4 and go as far as you like.
• How to Study Korean — exhaustive, free, written explanations — the reference to open when you want to know exactly why.

Listening and reading at your level

• TTMIK's IYAGI — natural-speed conversations about everyday topics, with transcripts.
• Comprehensible Input Korean — slow, visual Korean you can follow without subtitles — exactly the bridge from 'learned it' to 'hear it'.
• Graded readers — short stories written for learners (e.g. Olly Richards' Short Stories in Korean). Reading volume is how vocabulary becomes automatic.
• Language Reactor — dual subtitles and word lookup on Netflix/YouTube — turns the K-drama you were watching anyway into study.

Actually talking to people

• HelloTalk / Tandem — language-exchange apps: you help someone's English, they help your Korean. Awkward for the first week, priceless after.
• Local Korean classes or 세종학당 — the King Sejong Institute runs affordable classes worldwide — a teacher and classmates beat any app at conversation practice.

A goal, if you want one

• TOPIK I — the official proficiency test. Level 2 of TOPIK I is a realistic next milestone from here, and preparing for it will organise everything above.

This page is opinionated on purpose. If a link here dies or something better appears, it may just not have been updated — the app's feedback button reaches the maintainer.

Kaja Hangul is a free Korean course. No ads, no tracking. The Korean here was written by a learner and is being checked by a native speaker — if something reads wrong to you, it may well be.