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The Basics
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Dates
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Vocab: Times
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Most popular Korean Lessons for this topic

The Basics

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57 words/phrases

Vocab: Sino-Korean Numbers 1

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20 words/phrases

Vocab: Sino-Korean Numbers 2

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15 words/phrases

Vocab: Korean Numbers 1

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17 words/phrases

Vocab: Korean Numbers 2

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17 words/phrases

Vocab: Days of the Week

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12 words/phrases

Vocab: Months & Seasons

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18 words/phrases

Vocab: Time

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Vocab: Numbers 1

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10 words/phrases

Dates

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4 words/phrases

Vocab: Numbers 2

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5 words/phrases

Vocab: Times

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5 words/phrases

Your Korean Is Great!

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18 words/phrases

Where's the Restroom?

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16 words/phrases

Write Your Name Here

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15 words/phrases

I Love Korea

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13 words/phrases

Nice To Meet You

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4 words/phrases

Distinguishing '에요/예요'

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34 words/phrases

Spacing Rule of '밖에'

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4 words/phrases

How to Say 'You Are Welcome'

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3 words/phrases

'있다가' or '이따가'?

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18 words/phrases

Correcting 'ㅈ' Pronunciation

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22 words/phrases

Distinguishing '않/안'

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18 words/phrases

임마 vs 인마

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6 words/phrases

Top 5 Spelling Errors

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23 words/phrases

봬요 vs 뵈요

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5 words/phrases

네 or 예?

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33 words/phrases

Misspelling in KakaoTalk

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18 words/phrases

두루뭉술 or 두루뭉실?

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5 words/phrases

3 Misused Korean Words

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18 words/phrases

일부러 or 일부로?

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14 words/phrases

눈곱 or 눈꼽?

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8 words/phrases

Difference Between 심란 and 심난

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7 words/phrases

Her Favourite Four-Letter Word

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20 words/phrases

이에요 or 예요?

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16 words/phrases

Expressions Related to '먹다'

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11 words/phrases

Friday Night Plans

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9 words/phrases

Where is the Bathroom?

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3 words/phrases

Where is the Bathroom? 2

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6 words/phrases

Kakaotalk

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3 words/phrases

Sharing

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10 words/phrases

Answering the Phone

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3 words/phrases

I'm British

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5 words/phrases

Greetings

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2 words/phrases

Awkward Greetings

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3 words/phrases

At the Clothing Shop

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5 words/phrases

Korean onomatopoeia with foods

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19 words/phrases

If every sound was in Korean

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14 words/phrases

If every sound was in Korean - Drinking water

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10 words/phrases

Onomatopoeia in Korean

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16 words/phrases

Weird Sounds That Only Koreans Make

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31 words/phrases

Kitchen utensils

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3 words/phrases

My Family

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6 words/phrases

How many people in your family?

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4 words/phrases

What are you looking for?

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2 words/phrases

Basic Hanguls

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3 words/phrases

Elder brother competition

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6 words/phrases

Stop it!

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4 words/phrases

Bad pick-up line

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1 words/phrases

Let's dance

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2 words/phrases

How about this?

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3 words/phrases

Where are you from?

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3 words/phrases

Test of Hangul 2

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2 words/phrases

Test of Hangul 1

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4 words/phrases

Test of Hangul 3

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4 words/phrases

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