Korean alphabet quizzes
Six quizzes, all free, none of them asking you to sign up. They cover the same 40 letters and 380 syllables as the rest of this site — the difference is that here you have to answer before you see the answer.
The 10 basic Korean vowels
Ten questions on the simple vowels — the ones the standard calls monophthongs. Get these and every other vowel is one of them with a glide added.
10 questions, drawn from 10.
All 21 Korean vowels
Every vowel letter, including the y- and w- glides and the pairs that have merged in modern speech but stay separate in spelling.
12 questions, drawn from 21.
The 14 basic Korean consonants
The plain consonants, without the tense doubles. These are the shapes everything else is built from.
10 questions, drawn from 14.
Tense and aspirated consonants
The hardest distinction in Korean for English speakers: ㄱ ㅋ ㄲ sound like one letter to an untrained ear but separate three different words.
10 questions, drawn from 14.
Read the syllable
Syllable blocks, not single letters. Each question shows a block and asks how it is romanized — which is what reading Korean actually looks like.
12 questions, drawn from 112.
Hear the syllable
A native Korean speaker reads a syllable and you pick which one it was. Only syllables with their own recording are used, so what you hear is exactly what is written.
12 questions, drawn from 191.
Questions people ask
- Do I need an account to take these? +
- No. There is no sign-up and nothing to install. Your score is kept in your own browser and never leaves it.
- Which quiz should I start with? +
- The basic vowels. Every Korean syllable needs a vowel, so those ten letters unlock the most reading the fastest.
- Is the listening quiz using real recordings? +
- Yes. Every clip is a native Korean speaker reading that exact syllable. Syllables that borrow another syllable's recording are left out of the listening quiz, so what you hear always matches the answer.
- Are my results saved? +
- In this browser only, and only your best score per quiz. Clearing your browser data removes them. Progress that follows you across devices is what the app does.