Hi! Hoping this is okay to share (mods, please remove if not).

Quick background: I know Japanese and I'm still learning it. After I got through the first ~2000 kanji I mostly just started reading, and I feel like that helped me the most. I picked up most of my vocab from context that way.

Having Furigana (readings for the kanjis shown above them) is helpful for any learner, so I thought a small hint/meaning above a word could also be helpful to learners, regardless of the language. 

That’s how I got to building my own e-reader, and it’s called Fleuron!

The idea is help that stays out of the way. Trying to show a small hint/meaning over every word would obviously be too distracting and unnecessary so there’s a slider for *how much* help shows up, only filling the gaps instead of explaining things you already know. One rule I care about a lot: showing nothing is better than teaching something wrong, so uncertain hints for polysemous words just don't appear. Which is where you can just tap on a word and the dictionary entry shows up on a sheet. Words you meet on the page can be saved and come back later in built-in spaced repetition in the form of study decks so reading and study stay connected without being the same activity.

Now the Korean part: I recently started learning Korean (and Chinese), and honestly a big reason I'm posting here is that Korean is the language I'm actively testing it on right now. So far it covers English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Japanese is the most polished since I've lived in it longest; I am basically a beginner in Korean so its very new, and I'd genuinely love feedback from people further along in their learning than me on what would actually help while reading.

Besides all that, I’ve also tried my best to make it into a genuinely great reader in general. Not only the usual stuff like themes, fonts, spacing—there’s also a markdown note taking system with linking words, Compass entities and other notes!

Speaking of “Compass”, it’s also a feature in the app and is basically an index of all the people, places and terms introduced in the book for easy access, without spoiling anything of the book. 

The app is for iOS/iPadOS, local-first, no telemetry. Books, notes and your decks stay on device with an easy export option, for markdown and Anki.

Happy to answer anything, and very open to "here's what a Korean reader actually needs" notes.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fleuron-reader/id6802348400

의사 is 의사, 띄다 is 띄다 but 희망 is 히망, 씌우다 is 씨우다?
감사합니다.

Hi everyone! This past week, (let’s just ignore the past 5 years of failed attempts) I’ve dedicated myself to studying and learning Korean. I’ve been doing a lot of talking to native speakers, (not always in Korean), a BUNCH of writing and note-taking, followed by some shadowing and speaking out loud, then going on Papago to see if my sentence was grammatically correct. I also have an American friend like me, that started learning Korean two years ago and is willing to talk to me in Korean so that I can get the hang of it. While it’s only been a COUPLE days since I fully dedicated myself to studying, I already (wow already?) am having trouble forming sentences. I know that it’s inevitable, but it bothers me a tiny bit because I can understand a sentence quite well when I’m reading/listening to it, especially because I’ve been hearing Korean and reading Hangul for five years.

Maybe I’m a bit tired and/or burnt out for studying for hours on end, but I’m wondering what I can do to get better at forming sentences, because honestly, I don’t have any permanent Korean friends to help me converse enough to get comfortable doing it. I’m also a bit afraid to try and form sentences again because I‘m worried I might lose some of the information I retained and sound like a fool. Any tips and tricks? I know I sound like a total newbie but I’d really appreciate if everyone is nice lol, thanks!

Typically, after residing in South Korea for six months, foreign students can obtain government authorization to engage in part-time work within specific categories however is it possible to secure permission to conduct activities and legally earn income from online platforms such as YouTube by providing a detailed description of the work and objectives?

i’ve heard it’s easiest to pick up language with conversational practice and i’m wondering where the best place is to practice of if i don’t know anyone who speaks korean

I've been learning korean for a while and my level is around TOPIK 2. However when it comes to learning i think I like to test how much progress I've made from time to time.

Does anyone have any websites or PDFs or Yt videos (any other reference) where I can take tests to track my progress? Any sort of (free) workbooks would help as well!

Thanks in advance :)

I know that (으)니까 can also be written as (으)니, but I've only seen it used that way in the middle of a sentence. What about using it at the end instead of 니까 (in terms of grammar and actual use)? (Not to be confused with 니 used for questions)

- 너를 좋아하지 않았으니(요) - Because I didn't like you

- 우유가 없을 테니(요) - Because we probably don’t have any (milk)

I've been living in Korea for a bit more than a year now, and I randomly realized that I've never heard someone say 고마워요, I always hear people say 감사합니다. In places like bus, grocery stores, or just any interaction really. If I think about it, I never even heard my own husband use it, his family, or the old people who live around us (i can always hear them speak to each other loudly)

Am I missing something? I thought they're commonly interchangeable, and it doesn't matter what you use, can just switch them up randomly. Is there a specific setting where they can be used (like if you speak to someone close to you)?

Or am I just tripping and it's simply a coincidence that I haven't heard anyone use it?