TEN QUESTIONS · ABOUT TWO MINUTES

Can you read Korean?
Take the Hangul quiz.

Hear a syllable and pick the right letters, read a block on its own, then read real words you already know: 커피, 택시, 서울. Each round takes a different set of questions.

Practice set: ten questions with answers

Try each one before opening the answer. Listening questions play the same recordings used in the quiz.

Hear the block나
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Romanized as
na
Hear the block모
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Romanized as
mo
Hear the block수
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Romanized as
su
Read the block하
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Romanized as
ha
Read the block버
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Romanized as
beo
Read the block지
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Romanized as
ji
Read the word커피
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coffee
keopi
Read the word택시
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taxi
taeksi
Read the word서울
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Seoul
Seoul
Read the word아이스크림
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ice cream
aiseukeurim

How the Hangul quiz works

Every Korean syllable is a block: a consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant. The quiz uses ten common consonants and six simple vowels, so each round tests letters you meet on your first day. Listening choices avoid pairs that most speakers pronounce the same way.

Round 1: listen

Play a recorded syllable and choose the block you hear. Use Play again as often as you like.

Round 2: read

See one block and choose its romanization. Answers use the Revised Romanization of Korean, the system on Korean road and station signs.

Round 3: real words

Many Korean words for food, travel and technology come from English. Read 커피, 택시 or 와이파이 one block at a time and you will recognise them.

Recordings

Syllable audio is AI-generated. Word questions are reading only; we do not join single syllables into word recordings.

Hear the same voice in the Korean alphabet chart

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