[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-article-local-is-korean-hard-to-learn":3,"$fHZsWYl_LcdVZ5GxKwtR-ZqvCZbbUdo2_Fi6R_GQKiQM":673,"blog-article-cms-is-korean-hard-to-learn":675,"article-hreflang-is-korean-hard-to-learn":676,"blog-article-related-is-korean-hard-to-learn":1067},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":653,"extension":654,"meta":655,"navigation":666,"path":667,"rawbody":668,"seo":669,"stem":670,"__hash__":671,"timestampUnix":656,"slug":657,"h1":658,"image":659,"tags":664,"timestamp":672,"locale":-1},"content\u002Farticle\u002Fkorean\u002Fkorean-why-hard.md","...Is it actually that hard to learn Korean? How long does it take?",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":630},"minimark",[9,19,22,25,28,31,36,48,53,56,65,72,81,98,102,105,111,126,129,132,142,145,148,151,155,158,174,177,182,185,190,197,210,214,217,222,228,231,234,280,283,289,293,296,300,303,330,333,340,344,352,363,366,370,373,376,380,391,394,427,430,446,449,453,459,462,466,473,478,481,484,487,490,494,497,500,503,506,510,513,520,523,527,539,542,546,549,554,557,560,563,569,572,578,584,591,597,600,603,607,612,616,619,627],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"So, you want to ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Flearn-korean","learn Korean","? You're a K-pop Stan, or maybe you've fallen in love with Korean dramas, and now you're wondering how long it takes to learn the Korean language.",[10,20,21],{},"I hear you.",[10,23,24],{},"In this blog post, we're going to talk about:",[26,27],"toc",{},[29,30],"hr",{},[32,33,35],"h2",{"id":34},"how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-korean","How long does it take to learn Korean?",[10,37,38,39,43,44,47],{},"This question is really hard to answer. It's kind of like asking how long a string is. You can't answer it. You can measure how long a ",[40,41,42],"em",{},"specific"," string is, but you can't say how long a string is ",[40,45,46],{},"in general",". There are a bunch of different strings!",[49,50,52],"h3",{"id":51},"according-to-the-us-government-6000-hours","According to the US government: ~6,000+ hours",[10,54,55],{},"There's no easy way to say this, so I'm just going to rip the band-aid right off.",[10,57,58,64],{},[14,59,63],{"href":60,"rel":61},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.state.gov\u002Fforeign-service-institute\u002Fforeign-language-training",[62],"nofollow","According to the US Government",", Korean is classified as a \"super-hard\" language that takes diplomats 2,200 hours to learn.",[66,67],"img",{"src":68,"width":69,"height":70,"alt":71},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-how-long.jpeg",1480,752,"A screenshot of the US Foreign Service Institute's guidelines, suggesting that it takes 2,200 in-class hours to learn Korean",[10,73,74,75,80],{},"If your jaw dropped, ",[14,76,79],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FSpanish\u002Fcomments\u002Fwqusu3\u002F24_wks_1300_hrs_of_spanish_at_fsi_what_ive_learned\u002F",[62],"it gets worse",":",[82,83,84,92,95],"ul",{},[85,86,87,88,91],"li",{},"That's 2,200 ",[40,89,90],{},"in-class"," hours, but students also studied out of class for ~2 hours per class hour (meaning this is really more like 2,200+4,400 hours)",[85,93,94],{},"The \"students\" were future diplomats—people who were picked because they demonstrated a talent for learning languages",[85,96,97],{},"Learning Korean was these people's full-time job—like they were literally getting paid to study Korean",[49,99,101],{"id":100},"why-data-can-be-incredibly-misleading","Why data can be incredibly misleading",[10,103,104],{},"Before you close the page out of hopelessness—please look at this:",[66,106],{"src":107,"width":108,"height":109,"alt":110},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002FMigaku-korean-webtoon.jpeg",2880,1789,"A screenshot of the a Korean learner using the Migaku Chrome extension to read a Korean webtoon",[10,112,113,114,119,120,125],{},"What you're seeing is me reading ",[14,115,118],{"href":116,"rel":117},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.webtoons.com\u002Fen\u002Fthriller\u002Fsweethome\u002Flist?title_no=1285",[62],"Sweet Home",", the famous Korean webtoon that recently got turned into a ",[14,121,124],{"href":122,"rel":123},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=3WJweFedauI",[62],"hit Netflix series",". I'm reading it in Korean, and I have not spent anywhere near 6,000 hours learning Korean.",[10,127,128],{},"If you look up in the top-right corner there, you'll see that I know about 900 Korean words.",[10,130,131],{},"And this brings me to a super important point:",[133,134,135],"blockquote",{},[10,136,137,138,141],{},"The question to ask isn't \"how long does it take to learn Korean,\" but rather ",[139,140],"br",{}," \"how long will it take me to do this specific thing I want to do in Korean?\".",[10,143,144],{},"If you want to get fluent in Korean, then yeah. That's going to take a long time. Hundreds—or, more likely, thousands—of hours. The thing is, you don't need to be fluent in Korean to begin doing cool things in it. I've probably spent less than 100 hours learning Korean and I'm already reading webtoons, which has been my goal this whole time.",[10,146,147],{},"It'll take a long time to reach fluency in Korean, but what the data doesn't show you is that the vast majority of these hours are spent having fun, interacting with Korean content.",[10,149,150],{},"Anyway:",[49,152,154],{"id":153},"case-studies-two-people-who-learned-korean-fast","Case studies: Two people who learned Korean fast",[10,156,157],{},"I nearly had an aneurism when I saw that the FSI said it takes 6,000 hours to learn Korean, so I turned to Reddit. Within a few minutes of searching, I found this:",[82,159,160,167],{},[85,161,162],{},[14,163,166],{"href":164,"rel":165},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FKorean\u002Fcomments\u002F1i406ht\u002Fi_learned_korean_in_1_year_and_reached_topik\u002F",[62],"I Learned Korean in 1 Year and Reached TOPIK Level 4",[85,168,169],{},[14,170,173],{"href":171,"rel":172},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FKorean\u002Fcomments\u002F1hgqe3t\u002F18_month_update_korean_learning_update_achieving\u002F",[62],"18 Month Update Korean Learning Update: Achieving Topik 6, and reflections on my approach and the road ahead",[10,175,176],{},"The first person says this:",[133,178,179],{},[10,180,181],{},"I started learning Korean because I fell in love with the culture and language while watching K-dramas back in 2016. At first, the grammar (especially 는것 and noun modifiers) felt overwhelming, and I struggled to understand how everything fits together. It felt like walking in a maze with no exit.",[10,183,184],{},"The second person says this:",[133,186,187],{},[10,188,189],{},"I began to be exposed to Korean culture through K-dramas and also meeting a lot of Koreans through one of my hobbies a few years ago, and decided to start learning in June 2023. My goals were to be able to watch and understand a Kdrama without subtitles, to speak to the Korean friends I had met through my hobby, and to take the TOPIK test and eventually achieve a 6급 (this last one because I am a naturally competitive person, and wanted to have an objective way to track my progress and milestones).",[10,191,192,193,196],{},"Now, I'm not saying it's ",[40,194,195],{},"easy"," by any means. These people both put 5–8 hours per day into Korean for an extended period of time. Not everybody can do that.",[10,198,199,200,205,206,209],{},"All I'm trying to say is that if you love Korean—K-pop, K-dramas, maybe ",[14,201,204],{"href":202,"rel":203},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHan_Kang",[62],"Korean literature","—that gives you a huge advantage. There are things you want to do in Korean. That's ",[40,207,208],{},"super"," important. In fact, when it comes to language learning, it's basically everything. We'll talk about why in the \"nobody cares\" section down below.",[32,211,213],{"id":212},"how-language-learning-works-and-what-it-takes-to-reach-fluency-in-korean","How language learning works, and what it takes to reach fluency in Korean",[10,215,216],{},"Having spent a bit too much time on Reddit and Discord, I see a lot of people saying things like this:",[133,218,219],{},[10,220,221],{},"I want to learn Korean because I'm a BTS Stan and love K-dramas, but Korean is so hard. Maybe I should just learn Spanish instead?",[66,223],{"src":224,"width":225,"height":226,"alt":227},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-scowl.gif",1440,810,"A man, who has just heard something ridiculous, like learning Spanish instead of Korean, scowling.",[10,229,230],{},"Like, no, man. Don't do that.",[10,232,233],{},"Ask any polyglot you want and I'm pretty sure you'll get the same answer: the hardest language to learn is your first one. This is because learning Korean is about so much more than just Korean:",[235,236,238,268,271,274,277],"accordion",{"heading":237},"...small rant here",[82,239,240,247,250,253,256,259,262,265],{},[85,241,242,243,246],{},"You're learning how you (",[40,244,245],{},"you",") actually learn",[85,248,249],{},"You're exploring learning psychology, so you can overcome procrastination",[85,251,252],{},"You're trial-and-erroring your memory, figuring out how to remember thousands of vocabulary words",[85,254,255],{},"You're finding ways to be productive and be consistent, even though that's hard",[85,257,258],{},"You're learning about linguistics so you can make sense of Korean grammar",[85,260,261],{},"You're finding out what sort of resources do and don't work for you",[85,263,264],{},"You're learning to overcome failure and the fear of making mistakes",[85,266,267],{},"I could go on and on and on",[10,269,270],{},"Basically, learning Korean is just so much bigger than just Korean itself.",[10,272,273],{},"Unless you have the willpower of Thanos, you're not going to be able to force yourself to learn a language just because it's supposedly easy or good for your career. Motivation can only take you so far. To learn a language well, you need to be excited about it—to have things that compel you to engage with the language.",[10,275,276],{},"Case and point: I started learning Spanish when I was twelve. I didn't read my first Spanish book until I was like 22. I started learning Japanese at age 19. I read my first Japanese book before I read my first Spanish book. This shouldn't make sense, according to the data, because Japanese is supposedly super hard. The thing was, there were all sorts of things I wanted to read in Japanese. Spending time with Japanese content made me excited.",[10,278,279],{},"If Korean does that for you, then that's a huge advantage.",[10,281,282],{},"Anyway, I digress.",[10,284,285,288],{},[40,286,287],{},"Yes",". If you're reading this blog post, you should learn Korean.",[32,290,292],{"id":291},"what-makes-korean-hard-to-learn","What makes Korean hard to learn?",[10,294,295],{},"The issue isn't necessarily that Korean is hard so much as that English and Korean are different. Very different, and different in a lot of ways. As such, if you're learning Korean, you'll have to grapple with challenges like the fact that:",[49,297,299],{"id":298},"its-in-a-totally-different-language-family","It's in a totally different language family",[10,301,302],{},"Korean is very different than English. This is important. A language like Spanish, for example, gives native English speakers a bunch of freebies:",[82,304,305,316,327],{},[85,306,307,308,311,312,315],{},"A lot of vocabulary is shared, from simple things like \"idea\" (which is ",[40,309,310],{},"idea"," in Spanish) to more complex things like democracy (which is ",[40,313,314],{},"democracía"," in Spanish)",[85,317,318,319,322,323,326],{},"A number of phrases are shared, such as \"in other words\" (",[40,320,321],{},"en otras palabras",") or \"judging by\" (",[40,324,325],{},"juzgar por",")",[85,328,329],{},"When in doubt, you can translate most English sentences word-for-word into Spanish and get a sentence that makes sense, even if it isn't totally natural",[10,331,332],{},"All this goes to say that Spanish isn't really a super foreign language—there's a lot about it that's really quite familiar.",[10,334,335,336,339],{},"...But when a native speaker of English decides they want to speak Korean, that's a different story. Pretty much ",[40,337,338],{},"nothing"," transfers. Korean vocabulary is different, Korean idioms are different... Korean is a completely new language. This means that there are many things you will need to learn, whereas a learner of a language like Spanish or French can simply intuit.",[49,341,343],{"id":342},"its-sentences-are-structured-differently-than-englishs","Its sentences are structured differently than English's",[10,345,346,347,351],{},"We go into this in more detail in ",[14,348,350],{"href":349},"\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Flearn-basic-korean-grammar","our post on basic Korean grammar",", but if you want to learn the language, you're going to need to wrap your head around some very new linguistic concepts:",[82,353,354,357,360],{},[85,355,356],{},"The main verb of an English sentence goes in the middle of the sentence, while it goes at the end of Korean sentences. This has significant implications for how the parts of the sentence get organized.",[85,358,359],{},"Each word or phrase in a Korean sentence gets marked with a grammatical particle—a little tag that indicates the grammatical purpose they're playing in the sentence",[85,361,362],{},"Koreans tend to omit pronouns (and information they think is made obvious by context) from their sentences, which is a bit confusing for English speakers",[10,364,365],{},"A lot of this things in the Korean language won't feel very intuitive, so the only way to learn it is to spend a lot of time interacting with it. You're really learning a new language, and to do that you're going to need to get comfortable organizing your ideas in new ways.",[49,367,369],{"id":368},"korean-culture-is-very-different-than-ours","Korean culture is very different than ours",[10,371,372],{},"Korea places strong emphasis on social hierarchy and respect, and this is deeply embedded in the language via a quite complex system of what are called honorifics. Basically, Korean requires speakers to use different vocabulary and grammar depending on the social status and age of the person they are talking to, plus how familiar they are with each other. Even everyday conversations require careful consideration of these social dynamics, as using the wrong level of speech can be considered highly disrespectful.",[10,374,375],{},"Part of learning Korean is learning the culture. You'll often find that, in theory, you have the grammar you need to express an idea... but you won't know how Korean speakers would express that idea. The result is that you can produce sentences that are perfectly correct, but still not natural.",[49,377,379],{"id":378},"korean-pronunciation-is-pretty-challenging","Korean pronunciation is pretty challenging",[10,381,382,383,387,388,390],{},"Let's start with a big breath of relief: Korean is not a tonal language. However, as we discuss in our in our post on ",[14,384,386],{"href":385},"\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Flearn-korean-hangul","how to learn Hangul, the Korean alphabet",", that isn't to say that Korean pronunciation is ",[40,389,195],{},", by any means.",[10,392,393],{},"The infamous example is that many Korean consonants come in threes. They sound the same to many speakers of English, but they aren't: they actually differentiate some words in Korean.",[82,395,396,405,420],{},[85,397,398,399,404],{},"바 (pa) ",[400,401],"custom-audio",{"src":402,":type":403},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-바2.mp3","3"," — The \"plain\" version of Korean's P sound is pretty similar to English's P sound",[85,406,407,408,411,412,415,416,419],{},"파 (pa) ",[400,409],{"src":410,":type":403},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-파.mp3"," — Its aspirated twin isn't too difficult for English speakers, but we aren't used to thinking about how heavily aspirated our consonants are (compare the P in ",[40,413,414],{},"spy"," and ",[40,417,418],{},"pie","; if you can't hear it, say each word while holding your hand in front of your mouth)",[85,421,422,423,426],{},"빠 (ppa) ",[400,424],{"src":425,":type":403},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-빠.mp3"," — A \"tense\" version of Korean's P sound, which requires you to tense the muscles in your throat\u002Fmouth\u002Flips",[10,428,429],{},"Korean vowels aren't a walk in the park, either. Here's two to start with:",[82,431,432,439],{},[85,433,434,435,438],{},"으 (eu) ",[400,436],{"src":437,":type":403},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-으.mp3"," — An \"uhh\" sound that isn't quite \"uhh\"",[85,440,441,442,445],{},"의 (eui) ",[400,443],{"src":444,":type":403},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-의.mp3"," — Sounds kind of like the sound you make when you get hit in the stomach, doesn't it?",[10,447,448],{},"So, yeah. Learning any foreign language will require you to learn at least a few new sounds, but Korean has some doozies.",[32,450,452],{"id":451},"thats-intense-what-about-korean-is-easy-to-learn","...That's intense; what about Korean is easy to learn?",[10,454,455,456,458],{},"Just so you know, I have an agenda. I want ",[40,457,245],{}," to start learning Korean.",[10,460,461],{},"We just covered some kinda scary stuff, so let's balance it out a bit:",[49,463,465],{"id":464},"the-korean-writing-system-makes-it-easy-to-learn-to-read-korean-words","The Korean writing system makes it easy to learn to read Korean words",[10,467,468,469,472],{},"I won't go into a ton of detail here because ",[14,470,471],{"href":385},"we have a whole blog post about this",", but you should know that the Korean writing system was literally designed to be logical and easy to learn.",[66,474],{"src":475,"width":225,"height":476,"alt":477},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-wikipedia-hangul.jpeg",768,"A quick demonstration of Hangul, the Korean writing system, sourced from Wikipedia",[10,479,480],{},"You see, for a long time, Korea didn't have an alphabet of its own. Government officials and such used Chinese characters to write Korean, but nobody really liked that: they took a long time to learn and did a frankly terrible job of reflecting the sounds that existed within Korean.",[10,482,483],{},"Then, back in the 1400's, King Sejong came out and was like: \"Alright, here's the deal. Chinese characters suck. We're going to shrink the 3,000+ characters down to less than 30 Korean letters. There's going to be no more funny business with needing 15 strokes to write one character, and words are going to look the way they sound. That is all.\"",[10,485,486],{},"He didn't actually say that, but it's basically what he ended up doing. The Korean language is hard to learn for a lot of reasons, but its writing system is not one of them.",[10,488,489],{},"(You don't need to get fluent in Korean to seriously level up your Korean karaoke skills is all I'm saying.)",[49,491,493],{"id":492},"korean-grammar-is-pretty-regular-predictable","Korean grammar is pretty regular \u002F predictable",[10,495,496],{},"If your native language is English, you've been getting the short end of the grammar and vocabulary stick for your entire life. So many English words have unpredictable past tense forms and participle forms (have ~ed). You can't really logic your way through English: you just have to memorize a lot of stuff.",[10,498,499],{},"Here, Korean is different from English in a good way.",[10,501,502],{},"While Korean has more verb forms than English, Korean verbs are very regular. Once you learn the basic pattern used for a tense, you can apply that pattern to pretty much any verb you want.",[10,504,505],{},"This could describe a lot of Korean grammar, really: a lot of it will be new and require some thinking to figure out initially, but once you've got it, you've got it.",[49,507,509],{"id":508},"awesome-korean-media-and-resources-help-you-learn-the-language","Awesome Korean media and resources help you learn the language",[10,511,512],{},"If you're reading this post, you're probably aware of how awesome Korean media is. Whether your thing is K-pop, Korean TV shows on Netflix, or award-winning literature, there's no shortage of interesting Korean content to consume. This gives you a massive advantage in the intermediate stage, where you'll be learning primarily by directly interacting with the language.",[10,514,515,516,519],{},"And it's not ",[40,517,518],{},"just"," intermediate learners that benefit from this.",[10,521,522],{},"Check this out:",[524,525],"custom-iframe",{"src":526},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FzFcTtqrsflc?si=Ru6BlHwmrDIDSneI",[10,528,529,530],{},"Learn Korean in Korean is an awesome YouTube channel that teaches you Korean... in Korean... without using any English. Accomplishing this takes a lot of creativity and experience as a teacher. ",[40,531,532,533,538],{},"(And a bunch more stuff like this ",[14,534,537],{"href":535,"rel":536},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1EvnLN1-3g4SYXyzuhee1NFkomz-UoEEde0t5p1QtPcs\u002Fedit?gid=93462620#gid=93462620&fvid=1350608098",[62],"here",".)",[10,540,541],{},"Suffice it to say that there are some incredible Korean resources out there that people have obviously put a lot of love into.",[32,543,545],{"id":544},"nobody-cares-just-tell-me-how-i-can-learn-korean-faster","Nobody cares, just tell me how I can learn Korean faster",[10,547,548],{},"I'm going to make a blanket statement here:",[133,550,551],{},[10,552,553],{},"The best way to learn Korean is by interacting with it. When we consume content in another language, and we understand the messages within that content, we make progress. Period.",[10,555,556],{},"You don't need to spend a lot of money on Korean language courses. You don't need to move to Korea. You don't need to do \"this one weird trick\" that will help you learn Korean fast. All you have to do is spend time with Korean.",[10,558,559],{},"Migaku is a language learning app made by language learners, and we teach Korean like this:",[10,561,562],{},"First, you learn to read and pronounce Hangul:",[66,564],{"src":565,"width":566,"height":567,"alt":568},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-fundamentals.jpeg",1754,1220,"A few screenshots from Migaku's Korean Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Hangul",[10,570,571],{},"And then you move onto our Korean Academy course:",[66,573],{"src":574,"width":575,"height":576,"alt":577},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-grammar-plug.jpeg",1844,1232,"A screenshot showing an excerpt of Migaku's Korean Academy course, explaining the usage of the subject particle.",[10,579,580,581],{},"This course teaches you ~300 grammar points and the ~1,200 most common Korean vocabulary words. It's a flashcard-based course, so you can do it anywhere, and by the time you finish, you'll recognize 80% of the words you see in Korean media. ",[40,582,583],{},"(We did the math.)",[10,585,586,587,590],{},"From this point, you'll move on to the ",[40,588,589],{},"real"," strength of Migaku:",[66,592],{"src":593,"width":594,"height":595,"alt":596},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-kpop.jpeg",2800,1800,"A screenshot of a K-pop video that Migaku has parsed, turning into a learning exercise",[10,598,599],{},"We make Korean text in places like subtitles and X (formerly Twitter) interactive—you can simply click on new Korean words to see what they mean. If the word looks useful, you can click another button to turn it into a flashcard. We'll periodically ask you to review these flashcards, ensuring that you eventually remember the words they contain.",[10,601,602],{},"As a result, with Migaku, if you're interested in learning Korean, it's not super hard. I'd almost say that it's pretty easy. Simply consume the content you're interested in, we'll turn them into learning opportunities, and you'll work toward Korean fluency largely as a byproduct of consuming content you find interesting.",[604,605],"prose-button",{"href":16,"text":606},"Learn Korean with Migaku",[608,609,611],"centered-text",{"italic":610},"","\n Migaku is totally free for ten days, which is enough time to finish our Hangul course and learn how to pronounce Korean words. \n",[32,613,615],{"id":614},"basically-go-study-korean-just-dont-expect-to-learn-korean-in-a-year-or-something-like-that","Basically: Go study Korean, just don't expect to learn Korean in a year or something like that",[10,617,618],{},"Korean is a challenging language to learn for native English speakers, but it's not impossible. You (probably) aren't going to become fluent in Korean in a year, but if you start now and put in consistent effort, you'll likely become able to do some cool things in Korean within a year.",[10,620,621,622,626],{},"If you're ready to take the plunge, here's ",[14,623,625],{"href":624},"\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fstages-of-language-learning","a step-by-step guide to building your foundation and reaching the intermediate level",".",[10,628,629],{},"Good luck!",{"title":610,"searchDepth":631,"depth":631,"links":632},2,[633,639,640,646,651,652],{"id":34,"depth":631,"text":35,"children":634},[635,637,638],{"id":51,"depth":636,"text":52},3,{"id":100,"depth":636,"text":101},{"id":153,"depth":636,"text":154},{"id":212,"depth":631,"text":213},{"id":291,"depth":631,"text":292,"children":641},[642,643,644,645],{"id":298,"depth":636,"text":299},{"id":342,"depth":636,"text":343},{"id":368,"depth":636,"text":369},{"id":378,"depth":636,"text":379},{"id":451,"depth":631,"text":452,"children":647},[648,649,650],{"id":464,"depth":636,"text":465},{"id":492,"depth":636,"text":493},{"id":508,"depth":636,"text":509},{"id":544,"depth":631,"text":545},{"id":614,"depth":631,"text":615},"How long does it take to learn Korean? Is the Korean language hard to learn? Will you ever be able to understand KPOP? The answers are here 💪 ","md",{"timestampUnix":656,"slug":657,"h1":658,"image":659,"tags":664},1737962095698,"is-korean-hard-to-learn","How long does it take to learn Korean? Is Korean easy to learn?",{"src":660,"width":661,"height":662,"alt":663},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-hard-header.webp",9000,6000,"An attractive Korean man raising his hand, perhaps to make the argument it isn't hard to learn Korean.",[665],"discussion",true,"\u002Farticle\u002Fkorean\u002Fkorean-why-hard","---\ntitle: '...Is it actually that hard to learn Korean? How long does it take?'\ndescription: 'How long does it take to learn Korean? Is the Korean language hard to learn? Will you ever be able to understand KPOP? The answers are here 💪 '\ntimestampUnix: 1737962095698\nslug: 'is-korean-hard-to-learn'\nh1: 'How long does it take to learn Korean? Is Korean easy to learn?'\nimage:\n  src: '\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-hard-header.webp'\n  width: 9000\n  height: 6000\n  alt: \"An attractive Korean man raising his hand, perhaps to make the argument it isn't hard to learn Korean.\"\ntags:\n  - discussion\n---\n\nSo, you want to [learn Korean](\u002Flearn-korean)? You're a K-pop Stan, or maybe you've fallen in love with Korean dramas, and now you're wondering how long it takes to learn the Korean language.\n\nI hear you.\n\nIn this blog post, we're going to talk about:\n\n\u003Ctoc>\u003C\u002Ftoc>\n\n---\n\n## How long does it take to learn Korean?\n\nThis question is really hard to answer. It's kind of like asking how long a string is. You can't answer it. You can measure how long a _specific_ string is, but you can't say how long a string is _in general_. There are a bunch of different strings!\n\n### According to the US government: ~6,000+ hours\n\nThere's no easy way to say this, so I'm just going to rip the band-aid right off.\n\n[According to the US Government](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.state.gov\u002Fforeign-service-institute\u002Fforeign-language-training), Korean is classified as a \"super-hard\" language that takes diplomats 2,200 hours to learn.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-how-long.jpeg\" width=\"1480\" height=\"752\" alt=\"A screenshot of the US Foreign Service Institute's guidelines, suggesting that it takes 2,200 in-class hours to learn Korean\" \u002F>\n\nIf your jaw dropped, [it gets worse](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FSpanish\u002Fcomments\u002Fwqusu3\u002F24_wks_1300_hrs_of_spanish_at_fsi_what_ive_learned\u002F):\n\n- That's 2,200 _in-class_ hours, but students also studied out of class for ~2 hours per class hour (meaning this is really more like 2,200+4,400 hours)\n\n- The \"students\" were future diplomats—people who were picked because they demonstrated a talent for learning languages\n\n- Learning Korean was these people's full-time job—like they were literally getting paid to study Korean\n\n### Why data can be incredibly misleading\n\nBefore you close the page out of hopelessness—please look at this:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002FMigaku-korean-webtoon.jpeg\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1789\" alt=\"A screenshot of the a Korean learner using the Migaku Chrome extension to read a Korean webtoon\"\u002F>\n\nWhat you're seeing is me reading [Sweet Home](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.webtoons.com\u002Fen\u002Fthriller\u002Fsweethome\u002Flist?title_no=1285), the famous Korean webtoon that recently got turned into a [hit Netflix series](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=3WJweFedauI). I'm reading it in Korean, and I have not spent anywhere near 6,000 hours learning Korean.\n\nIf you look up in the top-right corner there, you'll see that I know about 900 Korean words.\n\nAnd this brings me to a super important point:\n\n> The question to ask isn't \"how long does it take to learn Korean,\" but rather \u003Cbr> \"how long will it take me to do this specific thing I want to do in Korean?\".\n\nIf you want to get fluent in Korean, then yeah. That's going to take a long time. Hundreds—or, more likely, thousands—of hours. The thing is, you don't need to be fluent in Korean to begin doing cool things in it. I've probably spent less than 100 hours learning Korean and I'm already reading webtoons, which has been my goal this whole time.\n\nIt'll take a long time to reach fluency in Korean, but what the data doesn't show you is that the vast majority of these hours are spent having fun, interacting with Korean content.\n\nAnyway:\n\n### Case studies: Two people who learned Korean fast\n\nI nearly had an aneurism when I saw that the FSI said it takes 6,000 hours to learn Korean, so I turned to Reddit. Within a few minutes of searching, I found this:\n\n- [I Learned Korean in 1 Year and Reached TOPIK Level 4](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FKorean\u002Fcomments\u002F1i406ht\u002Fi_learned_korean_in_1_year_and_reached_topik\u002F)\n\n- [18 Month Update Korean Learning Update: Achieving Topik 6, and reflections on my approach and the road ahead](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FKorean\u002Fcomments\u002F1hgqe3t\u002F18_month_update_korean_learning_update_achieving\u002F)\n\nThe first person says this:\n\n> I started learning Korean because I fell in love with the culture and language while watching K-dramas back in 2016. At first, the grammar (especially 는것 and noun modifiers) felt overwhelming, and I struggled to understand how everything fits together. It felt like walking in a maze with no exit.\n\nThe second person says this:\n\n> I began to be exposed to Korean culture through K-dramas and also meeting a lot of Koreans through one of my hobbies a few years ago, and decided to start learning in June 2023. My goals were to be able to watch and understand a Kdrama without subtitles, to speak to the Korean friends I had met through my hobby, and to take the TOPIK test and eventually achieve a 6급 (this last one because I am a naturally competitive person, and wanted to have an objective way to track my progress and milestones).\n\nNow, I'm not saying it's _easy_ by any means. These people both put 5–8 hours per day into Korean for an extended period of time. Not everybody can do that.\n\nAll I'm trying to say is that if you love Korean—K-pop, K-dramas, maybe [Korean literature](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHan_Kang)—that gives you a huge advantage. There are things you want to do in Korean. That's _super_ important. In fact, when it comes to language learning, it's basically everything. We'll talk about why in the \"nobody cares\" section down below.\n\n## How language learning works, and what it takes to reach fluency in Korean\n\nHaving spent a bit too much time on Reddit and Discord, I see a lot of people saying things like this:\n\n> I want to learn Korean because I'm a BTS Stan and love K-dramas, but Korean is so hard. Maybe I should just learn Spanish instead?\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-scowl.gif\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" alt=\"A man, who has just heard something ridiculous, like learning Spanish instead of Korean, scowling.\"\u002F>\n\nLike, no, man. Don't do that.\n\nAsk any polyglot you want and I'm pretty sure you'll get the same answer: the hardest language to learn is your first one. This is because learning Korean is about so much more than just Korean:\n\n\u003Caccordion heading=\"...small rant here\">\n\n- You're learning how you (_you_) actually learn\n- You're exploring learning psychology, so you can overcome procrastination\n- You're trial-and-erroring your memory, figuring out how to remember thousands of vocabulary words\n- You're finding ways to be productive and be consistent, even though that's hard\n- You're learning about linguistics so you can make sense of Korean grammar\n- You're finding out what sort of resources do and don't work for you\n- You're learning to overcome failure and the fear of making mistakes\n- I could go on and on and on\n\nBasically, learning Korean is just so much bigger than just Korean itself.\n\nUnless you have the willpower of Thanos, you're not going to be able to force yourself to learn a language just because it's supposedly easy or good for your career. Motivation can only take you so far. To learn a language well, you need to be excited about it—to have things that compel you to engage with the language.\n\nCase and point: I started learning Spanish when I was twelve. I didn't read my first Spanish book until I was like 22. I started learning Japanese at age 19. I read my first Japanese book before I read my first Spanish book. This shouldn't make sense, according to the data, because Japanese is supposedly super hard. The thing was, there were all sorts of things I wanted to read in Japanese. Spending time with Japanese content made me excited.\n\nIf Korean does that for you, then that's a huge advantage.\n\n\u003C\u002Faccordion>\n\nAnyway, I digress.\n\n_Yes_. If you're reading this blog post, you should learn Korean.\n\n## What makes Korean hard to learn?\n\nThe issue isn't necessarily that Korean is hard so much as that English and Korean are different. Very different, and different in a lot of ways. As such, if you're learning Korean, you'll have to grapple with challenges like the fact that:\n\n### It's in a totally different language family\n\nKorean is very different than English. This is important. A language like Spanish, for example, gives native English speakers a bunch of freebies:\n\n- A lot of vocabulary is shared, from simple things like \"idea\" (which is _idea_ in Spanish) to more complex things like democracy (which is _democracía_ in Spanish)\n\n- A number of phrases are shared, such as \"in other words\" (_en otras palabras_) or \"judging by\" (_juzgar por_)\n\n- When in doubt, you can translate most English sentences word-for-word into Spanish and get a sentence that makes sense, even if it isn't totally natural\n\nAll this goes to say that Spanish isn't really a super foreign language—there's a lot about it that's really quite familiar.\n\n...But when a native speaker of English decides they want to speak Korean, that's a different story. Pretty much _nothing_ transfers. Korean vocabulary is different, Korean idioms are different... Korean is a completely new language. This means that there are many things you will need to learn, whereas a learner of a language like Spanish or French can simply intuit.\n\n### Its sentences are structured differently than English's\n\nWe go into this in more detail in [our post on basic Korean grammar](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Flearn-basic-korean-grammar), but if you want to learn the language, you're going to need to wrap your head around some very new linguistic concepts:\n\n- The main verb of an English sentence goes in the middle of the sentence, while it goes at the end of Korean sentences. This has significant implications for how the parts of the sentence get organized.\n\n- Each word or phrase in a Korean sentence gets marked with a grammatical particle—a little tag that indicates the grammatical purpose they're playing in the sentence\n\n- Koreans tend to omit pronouns (and information they think is made obvious by context) from their sentences, which is a bit confusing for English speakers\n\nA lot of this things in the Korean language won't feel very intuitive, so the only way to learn it is to spend a lot of time interacting with it. You're really learning a new language, and to do that you're going to need to get comfortable organizing your ideas in new ways.\n\n### Korean culture is very different than ours\n\nKorea places strong emphasis on social hierarchy and respect, and this is deeply embedded in the language via a quite complex system of what are called honorifics. Basically, Korean requires speakers to use different vocabulary and grammar depending on the social status and age of the person they are talking to, plus how familiar they are with each other. Even everyday conversations require careful consideration of these social dynamics, as using the wrong level of speech can be considered highly disrespectful.\n\nPart of learning Korean is learning the culture. You'll often find that, in theory, you have the grammar you need to express an idea... but you won't know how Korean speakers would express that idea. The result is that you can produce sentences that are perfectly correct, but still not natural.\n\n### Korean pronunciation is pretty challenging\n\nLet's start with a big breath of relief: Korean is not a tonal language. However, as we discuss in our in our post on [how to learn Hangul, the Korean alphabet](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Flearn-korean-hangul), that isn't to say that Korean pronunciation is _easy_, by any means.\n\nThe infamous example is that many Korean consonants come in threes. They sound the same to many speakers of English, but they aren't: they actually differentiate some words in Korean.\n\n- 바 (pa) \u003Ccustom-audio src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-바2.mp3\" :type=\"3\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-audio> — The \"plain\" version of Korean's P sound is pretty similar to English's P sound\n- 파 (pa) \u003Ccustom-audio src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-파.mp3\" :type=\"3\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-audio> — Its aspirated twin isn't too difficult for English speakers, but we aren't used to thinking about how heavily aspirated our consonants are (compare the P in _spy_ and _pie_; if you can't hear it, say each word while holding your hand in front of your mouth)\n- 빠 (ppa) \u003Ccustom-audio src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-빠.mp3\" :type=\"3\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-audio> — A \"tense\" version of Korean's P sound, which requires you to tense the muscles in your throat\u002Fmouth\u002Flips\n\nKorean vowels aren't a walk in the park, either. Here's two to start with:\n\n- 으 (eu) \u003Ccustom-audio src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-으.mp3\" :type=\"3\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-audio> — An \"uhh\" sound that isn't quite \"uhh\"\n- 의 (eui) \u003Ccustom-audio src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fko-의.mp3\" :type=\"3\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-audio> — Sounds kind of like the sound you make when you get hit in the stomach, doesn't it?\n\nSo, yeah. Learning any foreign language will require you to learn at least a few new sounds, but Korean has some doozies.\n\n## ...That's intense; what about Korean is easy to learn?\n\nJust so you know, I have an agenda. I want _you_ to start learning Korean.\n\nWe just covered some kinda scary stuff, so let's balance it out a bit:\n\n### The Korean writing system makes it easy to learn to read Korean words\n\nI won't go into a ton of detail here because [we have a whole blog post about this](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Flearn-korean-hangul), but you should know that the Korean writing system was literally designed to be logical and easy to learn.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-wikipedia-hangul.jpeg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"768\" alt=\"A quick demonstration of Hangul, the Korean writing system, sourced from Wikipedia\" \u002F>\n\nYou see, for a long time, Korea didn't have an alphabet of its own. Government officials and such used Chinese characters to write Korean, but nobody really liked that: they took a long time to learn and did a frankly terrible job of reflecting the sounds that existed within Korean.\n\nThen, back in the 1400's, King Sejong came out and was like: \"Alright, here's the deal. Chinese characters suck. We're going to shrink the 3,000+ characters down to less than 30 Korean letters. There's going to be no more funny business with needing 15 strokes to write one character, and words are going to look the way they sound. That is all.\"\n\nHe didn't actually say that, but it's basically what he ended up doing. The Korean language is hard to learn for a lot of reasons, but its writing system is not one of them.\n\n(You don't need to get fluent in Korean to seriously level up your Korean karaoke skills is all I'm saying.)\n\n### Korean grammar is pretty regular \u002F predictable\n\nIf your native language is English, you've been getting the short end of the grammar and vocabulary stick for your entire life. So many English words have unpredictable past tense forms and participle forms (have ~ed). You can't really logic your way through English: you just have to memorize a lot of stuff.\n\nHere, Korean is different from English in a good way.\n\nWhile Korean has more verb forms than English, Korean verbs are very regular. Once you learn the basic pattern used for a tense, you can apply that pattern to pretty much any verb you want.\n\nThis could describe a lot of Korean grammar, really: a lot of it will be new and require some thinking to figure out initially, but once you've got it, you've got it.\n\n### Awesome Korean media and resources help you learn the language\n\nIf you're reading this post, you're probably aware of how awesome Korean media is. Whether your thing is K-pop, Korean TV shows on Netflix, or award-winning literature, there's no shortage of interesting Korean content to consume. This gives you a massive advantage in the intermediate stage, where you'll be learning primarily by directly interacting with the language.\n\nAnd it's not _just_ intermediate learners that benefit from this.\n\nCheck this out:\n\n\u003Ccustom-iframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FzFcTtqrsflc?si=Ru6BlHwmrDIDSneI\">\u003C\u002Fcustom-iframe>\n\nLearn Korean in Korean is an awesome YouTube channel that teaches you Korean... in Korean... without using any English. Accomplishing this takes a lot of creativity and experience as a teacher. _(And a bunch more stuff like this [here](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1EvnLN1-3g4SYXyzuhee1NFkomz-UoEEde0t5p1QtPcs\u002Fedit?gid=93462620#gid=93462620&fvid=1350608098).)_\n\nSuffice it to say that there are some incredible Korean resources out there that people have obviously put a lot of love into.\n\n## Nobody cares, just tell me how I can learn Korean faster\n\nI'm going to make a blanket statement here:\n\n> The best way to learn Korean is by interacting with it. When we consume content in another language, and we understand the messages within that content, we make progress. Period.\n\nYou don't need to spend a lot of money on Korean language courses. You don't need to move to Korea. You don't need to do \"this one weird trick\" that will help you learn Korean fast. All you have to do is spend time with Korean.\n\nMigaku is a language learning app made by language learners, and we teach Korean like this:\n\nFirst, you learn to read and pronounce Hangul:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-fundamentals.jpeg\" width=\"1754\" height=\"1220\" alt=\"A few screenshots from Migaku's Korean Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Hangul\" \u002F>\n\nAnd then you move onto our Korean Academy course:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-grammar-plug.jpeg\" width=\"1844\" height=\"1232\" alt=\"A screenshot showing an excerpt of Migaku's Korean Academy course, explaining the usage of the subject particle.\" \u002F>\n\nThis course teaches you ~300 grammar points and the ~1,200 most common Korean vocabulary words. It's a flashcard-based course, so you can do it anywhere, and by the time you finish, you'll recognize 80% of the words you see in Korean media. _(We did the math.)_\n\nFrom this point, you'll move on to the _real_ strength of Migaku:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-korean-kpop.jpeg\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot of a K-pop video that Migaku has parsed, turning into a learning exercise\" \u002F>\n\nWe make Korean text in places like subtitles and X (formerly Twitter) interactive—you can simply click on new Korean words to see what they mean. If the word looks useful, you can click another button to turn it into a flashcard. We'll periodically ask you to review these flashcards, ensuring that you eventually remember the words they contain.\n\nAs a result, with Migaku, if you're interested in learning Korean, it's not super hard. I'd almost say that it's pretty easy. Simply consume the content you're interested in, we'll turn them into learning opportunities, and you'll work toward Korean fluency largely as a byproduct of consuming content you find interesting.\n\n\u003Cprose-button href=\"\u002Flearn-korean\" text=\"Learn Korean with Migaku\">\u003C\u002Fprose-button>\n\n\u003CCenteredText italic> Migaku is totally free for ten days, which is enough time to finish our Hangul course and learn how to pronounce Korean words. \u003C\u002FCenteredText>\n\n## Basically: Go study Korean, just don't expect to learn Korean in a year or something like that\n\nKorean is a challenging language to learn for native English speakers, but it's not impossible. You (probably) aren't going to become fluent in Korean in a year, but if you start now and put in consistent effort, you'll likely become able to do some cool things in Korean within a year.\n\nIf you're ready to take the plunge, here's [a step-by-step guide to building your foundation and reaching the intermediate level](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fstages-of-language-learning).\n\nGood luck!\n",{"title":5,"description":653},"article\u002Fkorean\u002Fkorean-why-hard","auFL1ellzZOmL-gYQXWIIWoQHa18LkLuadlwusCDCy4","January 27, 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