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What's New: Summer 2026
Word ingredients, two thousand new vocabulary, and a multitude of fixes and improvements to help you beat the heat!
Your Reviews Are About to Get Smarter
The timed SRS review ladder is retiring. FSRS schedules words intelligently using machine learning, which means far fewer reviews and comparable or even better vocabulary retention. You can opt in today, with all users being switched over in the coming months.
Introducing Ingredients: See What Korean Is Made Of
Korean words are built from reusable parts. The new Ingredients menu — Affixes, Grammar, and Hanja — helps you see them, so new words start explaining themselves.
Hangul Quick-Start Guide: Learn to Read Korean in Minutes
An interactive guide to learn to read Korean in one sitting, complete with audio examples and pronunciation rules.
New Feature Announcement: Hangul Mnemonics
We've added a new way to learn the Korean alphabet with visual mnemonics for consonants and vowels.
Introducing The Korean Vocabulary App
What is The Korean Vocabulary App and why did we bother building it?