Duolingo teaches dozens of languages. We teach one. Korean, from your first letter of Hangul all the way to C1.
Start learning freeNeither is wrong. They're just built for different goals.
A huge catalogue of languages and a famously good streak habit. Lovely for dipping into a new language.
Every lesson, scene and review card exists for one reason: getting you speaking Korean.
Tap each letter. Hangul was designed to be learned fast, and this is how Hanguly starts.
125 lessons across 15 courses. These are the real course names, not a roadmap.
Read Hangul and say your first real sentences.
Order, travel, make plans.
Natural conversation with friends and at work.
Give opinions, disagree, read the news.
Academic, idiomatic, near-native.
Role-play real situations with an AI tutor, from your first dessert order to a proper argument.
Learn to read before anything else, letter by letter.
Particles, verb endings, politeness levels and honorifics, each with its own lessons.
Pronunciation drills plus conversations with an AI tutor you name and set up yourself.
A swipe deck that brings words back right before you'd forget them.
One account, and your progress follows you between the two.
Lifetime is a one-off purchase. No subscription, nothing to cancel.
If you want Spanish, Japanese and Korean in one app, Duolingo does all three and we only do one. It's also great at making a daily habit feel like a game. If Korean is the goal, that's where we go further.
Of course. They're separate apps, so nothing stops you using both. Plenty of people like to warm up in one and go deep in the other.
Yes. Every course from A1.1 to C1.3 is open on the free plan, with 2 new lessons a day. Repeating a finished lesson is always free. Pro removes the daily cap and unlocks the higher-level tutor scenes.
No. You can stay free, subscribe to Pro, or buy Lifetime once with nothing to renew.
No. Placement decides where you start, so you can skip what you already know.