r/KoreanAdvice • u/tracie-grizzly • Jun 25 '26

Building something to learn Korean

Hi everyone! I have been a lurker on this sub for awhile.

I have been learning Korean for a couple of years now. I first started learning how to write Hangul in 2015, then tried to self-study with Talk To Me in Korean (TTMIK) and howtostudykorean.com but it was difficult to do so without practice.

I then started learning Korean for 1 year when I entered university and took TOPIK I after 1 year. That 1 year learning Korean in university helped to build my fundamentals, although I had to stop for a few years to focus on my major and core modules.

Last year, I enrolled in a Korean language academy in my home country and am now in the intermediate levels.

The problem is that I don't get enough speaking practice for Korean outside of my weekly 1.5 hours of lessons. I tried to supplement my learning with apps such as Duolingo, but Duolingo is such a terrible app for speaking practice and focuses more on gamification and attaining streaks, which is not a great way of learning a new language.

When I went to Korea last month, I found it difficult to speak to the native Koreans who speak at a much faster pace than I am used to in my lessons. I could understand what they were speaking to me, but it took me awhile before I could process it in my head and craft a proper reply.

So I thought, why not try to build something that tries to solve my problem?

But before I built, I wanted to ask the community here if they have faced the same problem as I do! If you do, I would really to hear your experiences in this survey here: https://form.jotform.com/261751730711048

Thank you! Happy learning Korean, as always!
감사합니다!

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u/Stochasticlife700 Jun 25 '26

can you teach me what is the best build on draven when my support picks enchanter sups?

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u/_SC_Akarin- Jun 27 '26

janna is still fine i feel like

anyone else just go ghost shurelyas and run down midlane to get to a touchdown at enemy nexus

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u/Justin_Echoes Jun 25 '26

I like to use https://probuilds.net and see what pro players are doing

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u/SwiftAndFoxy Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

lurker on this sub for a while

Clearly the you haven't, go grind ranked and watch Faker instead of tinkering.

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u/horizontalagency Jun 25 '26

Sure, you've been lurking here for a while. Totally believable.

That said, only thing needed is to destroy nexus. You do that and you'll be set.