I'm now working my way through the second Korean unit. But they're a little bit buggy and since I'm using them for listening practice I have to hide the screen. They're pretty silly, but have been nice for variety as I repeat previous lessons. Recently I discovered that they added 'stories' to each chunk of lessons. There's a big update coming, but it's not covered in this review. It was very easy to make a routine out of this app and several months after completing the course I still use it for daily practice. For example, teach different types of fruits at the same time as teaching size words and the grammar for comparing objects. It teaches vocabulary and grammar at the same time in a way that's very memorable. The order of lessons and vocabulary is very well designed. It's great that I could 'test out' of early sections and start at the appropriate skill level. UPDATE: This has been fixed! Now the free typing sections disable autocomplete and autocorrect. It's infuriating while learning because I can't be sure if mistakes were my fault or my phone's. Certain words never seem to complete the way I want or don't call out misspellings when I need it most. It's not the app's fault, but when free typing I have to keep a vigilant eye on autocorrect fucking me over. Occasionally a bit of voice will sound like it was recorded in a cave or that the speaker was chewing on a turkey leg at the time. Chart text can get wrapped in an ugly way and become unreadable.

The lesson notes sometimes have formatting that isn't suitable for my small iPhone screen. UPDATE: This app is no longer free, but it is still worth the asking price. Each lesson quiz takes about 5 minutes and uses a combination of activities such as listening, word matching, fill-in-the-blank, and free typing. It was specifically designed to teach Asian languages. This app starts with Hangul and beginner vocabulary and has about 100 lessons covering beginner and upper beginner grammar. Please feel free to ask questions and share your own experiences!

I don't have a blog or anything to promote, so I'll include this introduction at the top of each post and crosslink the threads as I write them. So, for the next few weeks I'm doing a series of long form posts talking about each resource that I've used. I've been studying Korean daily for about a year and thought it might be helpful for new learners to hear about my experiences.

Lingodeer app