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Learning Korean with NoaLingua
Method, evidence and honest timelines
Korean is Category IV on the US Foreign Service Institute's scale, which puts it at about 2,200 class hours to professional proficiency. These articles cover how to start, what to skip, and how to turn the material you already watch and read into practice.
The easiest writing system of any hard language and one of the hardest grammars. Hangul takes a weekend; the honorifics, the sound changes and the verb-final word order are what the 2,200 hours are actually for.
The Foreign Service Institute puts Korean at Category IV — about 2,200 class hours of classroom instruction, or about 88 weeks full time, to reach General Professional Proficiency. That is a real number from an organisation that has been measuring it since 1947, and it is the honest frame for everything below.
You can also check what NoaLingua supports for Korean — which dictionary, grammar and example data exists, and which does not.
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