Free online resources to learn Korean

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Welcome to the Korean forum resources lists. If you have a suggestion of useful [free] online resources, or find mistakes in any of the listed ones, please use the report feature (at the bottom right corner of this post) to notify the moderators about it.



Courses and Textbooks:

Courses:
Talk To Me In Korean | Learning Korean made simple and easy! offers lessons in a fun engaging way, with audio, in 8 levels. (English, some Japanese and some Spanish)
How to study Korean Lessons from beginners to advanced levels
Korean Portal The Indiana University Korean online courses and some other resources (Eglish)
http://seemile.com Video lessons starting from beginners level (English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese)
¼°´ëÇб³ Çѱ¹¾î °Á - From introductory to intermediate III (English)
Introduction to Korean - Introductory (English)
http://world.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm Introductory (English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese)
http://www.kosnet.go.kr/ - Introductory (English, Japanese, Chinese (trad. characters used), Spanish. Free, but registration required)
Learn to read, write and pronounce Korean - Learn to read, write and pronounce Korean (English)
Learn Korean and Speak Korean :- Free Site for Learning Korean Language - Basic course (English)
http://coreano.mireene.com/ - Course (Spanish)
http://hangulforest.com/index_e.htm - Basic course (English)
http://learnkorean.elanguageschool.net/ - Course and grammar (English)
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Korean Basic course with audio.


Online textbooks:

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/ - Korean Language Wiki
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Korean - Wiki-course (English)
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Koreanisch - Wiki-course (German)
http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Enseignement_du_cor%C3%A9en - Wiki-course (French)
http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Korea%C5%84ski - Wiki-course (Polish)
http://zh.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E9%9F%A9%E8%AF%AD - Wiki-course (Chinese)
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/kore...lec-textbooks/ My Korean 1&2, PDF files with audio files. (English)
 
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    • Reading, listening, watching

    Newspapers:
    동아일보
    조선일보
    중앙일보
    한겨레 신문
    한국일보
    CNN 한글 뉴스
    야후 뉴스

    Online Comic Strips
    http://cartoon.media.daum.net/webtoon - Online Comics (aka web-toon) provided by Daum.net
    http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/weekday.nhn - by Naver.com

    Children books and stories:
    http://jr.naver.com/donghwa/ New!

    TV & Radio broadcasting:
    KBS
    MBC
    SBS
    EBS
    Arirang TV
    라디오 코리아 Radio Korea

    Software:
    http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx - Parses Korean sites and provides pop-up dictionary entries. Works for Chinese and Japanese too. [contributed by kirsitn in one of the Chinese Forum threads]
    http://sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi - A converter between Hangul and Latin alphabet
     
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    Dictionaries:

    네이버 사전 (NAVER dictionary) - English/Korean/Hanja/Japanese/Chinese/French/Spanish/German/Vietnamese/Russian/Portuguese/Mongolian/Indonesian/Turkish/Cambodian/Ukrainian/Uzbek/Albanian/Georgian
    Korean-English-Korean Dictionary - English/Chinese/Japanese - Korean (one direction)
    다음 어학사전 English/Chinese/Japanese and many other languages <> Korean (Also has hanja).
    - BLUEDIC(블루딕 영어사전), The word-net project / Korean English Dictionary. - English<>Korean
    http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/kordic.html - picture dictionary
    http://stdweb2.korean.go.kr/ - The Standard Korean Unabridged Dictionary(Korean-Korean)
    Korean-English-Korean Dictionary


    Specialized dictionaries:
    http://www.terms.co.kr/ - Computer terms
    http://www.koreangrammaticalforms.com/index.php Korean Grammar Dictionary, Korean grammatical terms with explanations in English.
     
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    Writing

    Spell Checker: New!
    http://speller.cs.pusan.ac.kr/ Type your text then press Ctrl+Enter. If there's no error new checker will show "맞춤법과 문법 오류를 찾지 못했습니다. 기술적 한계로 찾지 못한 맞춤법 오류나 문법 오류가 있을 수 있습니다." which means "Couldn't find any spelling and grammar error. There might be spelling or grammar errors that the checker couldn't find because of technical limitation."

    Fonts: Updated!
    http://hangeul.naver.com/ - Naver Nanum Gothic/Myeongjo (including hanja)
    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10490 - Microsoft Malgun Gothic (no hanja)
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4882
    http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/
    http://www.kopus.org/Biz/electronic/Font.aspx - Korea Publishers Society Batang/Dotum (including hanja)
    http://www.hancom.co.kr/downLoad.downView.do?seqno=3136&mcd_save=005 - Hancom HCR Batang/Dotum (including hanja)
    http://www.seoul.go.kr/v2012/seoul/symbol/font.html - Seoul Hangang/Namsan (including hanja)
    * Note: batang or myeongjo(myungjo) = serif; dotum or gothic = sans-serif
    ('Malgun Gothic' and 'Nanum Gothic' are two of the most widely used modern-style fonts for computer screen in Korea.
     
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    Miscellaneous

    Software:
    http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx - Parses Korean sites and provides pop-up dictionary entries. Works for Chinese and Japanese too. [contributed by kirsitn in one of the Chinese Forum threads]
    http://sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi - A converter between Hangul and Latin alphabet


    Korean language rules:
    http://korean.go.kr/09_new/dic/rule/rule01.jsp - The Rules of Korean Orthography (in Korean)
    http://korean.go.kr/09_new/dic/rule/rule02.jsp - The Standard Korean Language Regulation (in Korean)
    http://korean.go.kr/09_new/dic/rule/rule_roman_0101.jsp - Romanization of Korean (in Korean)
     
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