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Practice listening to Korean, including pronunciation changes, through conversations and announcements.
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Korean has a relatively systematic Hangul structure, but pronunciation changes such as batchim and liaison, conjugation of verbs and adjectives, and honorific and sentence-ending expressions are important. Even though word order is similar to Japanese, some expressions cannot be directly substituted.
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Practice listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary, plus shadowing and word games.
📖 Reading
Read messages, notices, and other texts, and understand meaning from endings and context.
📝 Grammar & Vocabulary
Covers particles, verb and adjective conjugation, endings, honorifics, modifier forms, and more.
🗣️ Shadowing
By listening to audio and speaking along, you become familiar with Korean sounds, rhythm, and natural expressions.
🏰 Word Quest
Learn basic and business vocabulary while progressing through an adventure RPG story.
🧩 Word Match
Review the vocabulary you've learned with a game that matches words to their meanings.
Learn Korean every day. FRENG's question system
At FRENG, we apply our own learning format—modeled on the listening and reading question structure of the TOEIC® Listening & Reading Test—to Korean as well. All questions in every language, including English, are created independently by FRENG and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. Grammar and vocabulary questions are created to match the characteristics of each language.
120 minutes every day. All new questions.
It's not just repeating the same questions as yesterday. New mock tests are added every day, and the number of questions you can study keeps piling up.
You can study in just a few minutes a day.
Even if there are 120 minutes' worth of questions each day, you don't have to answer them all.
Just 5 minutes of listening during your commute. Just 10 minutes of reading during lunch break. A few grammar questions on your weak points before bed.
Study today's material at your own pace, as much as you can manage.
We value helping you keep going without overexerting yourself.
Bring the practical question format of the globally used TOEIC® to Korean learning.
TOEIC® is an English proficiency test used in more than 160 countries around the world. It is particularly strong at measuring practical English skills, with an emphasis on communication in business and the workplace.
Rather than simply testing knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, it uses as its subject matter situations actually encountered in business and daily life, such as workplace conversations, meetings, phone calls, business trips, contacting clients, emails, advertisements, and informational notices.
It also consists of 7 Parts that systematically check practical language ability, including questions where you look at a photo and understand the situation, questions where you choose an appropriate response to a question, questions where you listen to and comprehend conversations and announcements, and questions where you read emails and documents and understand their content.
FRENG has applied this practical and systematic TOEIC® question format to Korean learning.
Leveraging the wide range of business and everyday topics and the question structure used in the TOEIC®, we provide our own learning questions that let you work on listening and reading in Korean. This does not mean the materials move the settings or characters to Korean-speaking regions; rather, the structure lets you learn common, U.S.-centered topics in Korean.
In addition, we combine grammar and vocabulary questions that are important for learning Korean, such as particles, verb and adjective conjugation, honorifics, ending expressions, and pronunciation changes caused by batchim.
This allows you to train not only memorizing vocabulary and grammar, but also comprehensive language skills for listening to, reading, and accurately understanding Korean content.
* TOEIC® is an English test. The other-language questions introduced on this page are FRENG's original materials and are not official TOEIC® tests.
* TOEIC® is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). All FRENG questions, including the English version, are originally produced across all 8 languages and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. FRENG is not approved by or affiliated with ETS or IIBC.
Question formats by Part
PART 1Photo questions
Listen to a description of a photo and choose the answer
PART 2Response questions
Choose the response to a question or statement
PART 3Conversation questions
Listen to a conversation between multiple people and answer the questions
PART 4Announcement questions
Listen to explanations and announcements and answer the questions
PART 5Short text fill-in-the-blank
Check vocabulary and grammar
PART 6Long passage fill-in-the-blank
Choose the word or phrase that fits the context
PART 7Reading comprehension
Read practical texts and answer the questions
* The above is an introduction to the study format. It is not an official TOEIC® test or official question set.
Features and key points of Korean learning
What you will learn on this page
Structure of Hangul characters
While learning vocabulary in Word Quest and Word Match, you get used to how Hangul is written.
Batchim and liaison
In Listening, you check the parts you couldn't catch by looking at the text, and get used to the differences between spelling and how words sound.
Particles and basic word order
In Short text fill-in-the-blank, you practice choosing the particle that fits the sentence.
Conjugation of predicates and politeness
In Short text fill-in-the-blank and Long passage fill-in-the-blank, you choose the verb endings and conjugated forms that fit the context.
Honorifics and speech levels
In Conversation questions and Reading comprehension, you check the way of speaking that suits the situation and the person you are speaking to.
How to proceed with Korean language learning
From basics to application, following the order below as a guide will make it easier to organize what you study. You may also start from the middle depending on your learning experience.
Get used to Korean sounds through shadowing and Part 1 and Part 2 listening
Build your vocabulary with Word Quest and take on the conversations and announcements in Part 3 and Part 4
Check familiar expressions with grammar and reading questions
* This is a suggested study approach and does not indicate level divisions or course names within the FRENG app.
Frequently asked questions about learning Korean
Listening and Reading are said to be Korean versions of the English TOEIC®-style mock tests created by FRENG. What are the benefits of learning this way?
TOEIC® is an English test used in more than 160 countries around the world. In Japan and South Korea, many companies use it as a guide for hiring and promotion.
The topics of the questions are all workplace and everyday situations, such as meetings, phone calls, business trips, emails, and notices. For that reason, TOEIC® scores are widely used as a guide to how well someone can understand English in business settings.
The Korean version of FRENG turns this type of question into Korean. Because you can listen to and read workplace and everyday situations in the same question format as TOEIC®, it helps you build the ability to understand business situations in Korean.
Can I learn Korean for free?
Yes. FRENG is a service that provides Korean learning content for free.
When starting Korean, what should I study first?
For Korean, getting used to the sounds is the most efficient approach. Put reading aside for now and start with shadowing. The short sentences are built around situations you would actually encounter, so practice them as many times as you like until they become your own. You don't need to learn grammar rules first. As you listen a lot and speak out loud, you will naturally start to notice unnatural phrasing.
For vocabulary, Word Quest plays audio for each word, so you can solve them even if you can't read the letters.
Beginners can solve Part 1 (Photo questions) and Part 2 (Response questions) of Listening. Part 3 is Conversation questions and Part 4 is Announcement questions. They are harder than Parts 1 and 2, but they are essential for real conversations with Korean speakers, so be sure to give them a try.
The important thing is to always review after solving Part 3 and Part 4. When you reopen a question you've already solved, you can choose between "Try again" and "View translation." Pressing "View translation" plays the audio of the same question, with subtitles and translation shown at the same time. Repeating this will help it come naturally to you.
How do you practice Korean grammar?
Rather than just memorizing rules, find the forms within example sentences and repeatedly confirm them through short fill-in-the-blank exercises and reading comprehension. It would be especially good to focus your practice on "conjugation of predicates and politeness."
How can I improve my Korean listening comprehension?
Listen to short audio, check the parts you couldn't catch in writing, and then practice the sound groupings through shadowing. Also pay attention to "batchim and liaison."
Can I start even if I have just learned Hangul?
Yes. Start with short vocabulary in Word Quest and Word Match, and it becomes easier to move forward if you gradually connect letters with sounds.
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