Where should you start?
Two minutes: tell us which words you recognize and we'll place you at stories where you know about 95% of the vocabulary. Nothing to lose — you can retake it anytime.
Complete beginner? Learn Hangul firstHow the check works
- You see five Korean words from one point on a 6,500-word frequency list and tap the ones you know.
- Claim four or more and three of them come back as multiple-choice questions; two right answers pass that step.
- Each step moves up or down the list, between the 100th and the 6,000th most common word, so a few steps find where your vocabulary runs out.
- Stories whose new words you already know are skipped: your path starts where new words appear.