From the letters
to the conversation.
Read Hangul in a week, order a coffee in a month, survive your first day at work. Whole conversations in polite Korean, explained in your language.
Home is a path. Unit 1 teaches you to read Hangul in nine lessons.
Free in beta · 132 lessons · 79 situations · TOPIK & EPS-TOPIK · 6 languages
01 Try it
One café lesson. Right here.
Same lines, same checks as the app. Tap the speaker to hear each line.
In the app this lesson runs 16 steps and ends with you saying the lines out loud.
02 Two courses
Start from the letters, or from your first day at work.
Every lesson opens with when you need it, teaches the lines, checks you, then makes you say them.
Reading Hangul first, then the words for a café, a shop, a bus, a weekend plan and a polite goodbye.
Formal 합쇼체 for the office: introducing yourself, taking a task, writing the email, reporting, declining politely.
Business assumes you can read Hangul. If you can’t yet, it starts you at Basic Unit 1 and lets you switch back any time.
03 Situations
79 whole conversations, both sides.
A situation is a real exchange in polite Korean. You learn your lines, hear the other side, then take your turn.
23 themes, from Hangul literacy to reporting to your team leader and customer calls. New to Korean? Home gets you reading first; situations open up after Unit 2.
04 Exams
TOPIK and EPS-TOPIK, in the real format.
Timed sets that look like the paper, and an explanation for every wrong option, not just the right one.
Sets by level, a grammar bank, guided writing and a full mock with the real timing.
Reading and listening in the exam shape, a 40-question mock scored like the real one, and the workplace words the test keeps using.
05 Review
It comes back until you can say it.
Every phrase you learn comes back the next day, then after 3, 7, 16 and 35 days — English first, Korean hidden. You say it, then check yourself.
Tap to reveal, then be honest.
06 Your language
Explained in your language, not translated from English.
Sound explanations start from the sounds you already have. Exam guides name your country’s sending agency. The Korean, the audio and the answers are the same everywhere.
Beyond the guides, lesson explanations are still English in the five new languages. They are being written, not machine-translated.
07 Questions
Before you ask.
Who is it for?
People who live or will live in Korea and need to speak, not pass a vocabulary quiz: students, workers on the EPS route, partners, anyone starting a job in a Korean office. It starts from zero — you don’t need to read Hangul yet.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, and there are no ads. Paid plans may come later for extra content; what you learn stays yours. You can sign in with Google (Apple on iOS), or skip sign-in entirely — progress stays on your device either way.
How is it different from Duolingo?
Whole conversations instead of loose sentences, formal office Korean as a real course, exam sets in the real format, and no hearts. And every explanation is written for your language — how 어 sounds to a Vietnamese speaker is not how it sounds to a Japanese one.
Is the Korean checked?
Every line is written by us — nothing is copied from textbooks or other apps — and goes through native-speaker review. Lines still in review are marked as draft in the app, and a report from you goes straight to the reviewer.
Does it score my pronunciation?
Not yet. Each lesson ends with read-aloud lines you check yourself against the audio. Speech feedback is built and waiting for the native app build.
Which languages next?
Nepali across the whole app, then Khmer, Burmese, Sinhala, Bengali and Uzbek for the EPS-TOPIK route, in the order those learners arrive.
When can I get it?
Android first, then iOS, in the coming months. Questions before then: support@myonward.cc.
Questions, or a mistake to report? support@myonward.cc
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