Hey there!
Welcome to my Korean 11k deck. You're probably here cos you're interested in learning Korean. And I am too. I've been learning Korean for 10 years. I'm conversationally fluent. I speak Korean with my family every day. I enjoy all kinds of media without needing subtitles to understand it. And I've been meaning to make a cram-style deck like this for a while. After meeting some new Korean learners in the Refold community, I decided to finally do it. This Korean 11k deck is for the people.
This deck is split into 3 parts, because of size limitations in AnkiWeb. This deck is part 2, which is the intermediate vocab section of the deck. If you're here out of order, you should start with part 1.
The whole deck contains all of the 3 (beginner), 2 (intermediate), and 1 (advance) star words that you can find in Naver's English Learner's dictionary. These words originate from the National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Learners' Dictionary. This is a complete list of all words you are expected to know in order to pass the highest level TOPIK exam.
On the front of each card, there's a vocab word, along side a short dialogue, that contains the vocabulary word. A human-like (AI neural network generated) voice will read its contents automatically. There's a button at the bottom to play everything again.
On the back of each card, there's all of the content from the front of the card with the translations of everything in English. There is also a link to the dictionary entry for that word in the National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Learners' Dictionary.
About 80% of the words in this deck have their dialogues sourced from the Korean Learner's dictionary. If you look at the word through the Anki browser and see its type as simple or complex, this means that the dialogue is identical to at least one of the dialogues attached to the entry in the dictionary. If it says "missing", then I generated it with ChatGPT 4. Don't worry, I reviewed a large sample size of the words generated, and they're all good. I will also eventually review the entire deck myself and make any changes I see fit a long the way. I'm learning Spanish right now though to win a burrito, so version 2 will likely come new year's day next year.
This deck is intended for anyone who wants to cram Korean. You can do this deck slowly, by studying 10 words a day, and then doing reviews every day, but I don't recommend it. The dialogues are pretty challenging if you're just starting out. And it will be hard for you to memorize them since you're just starting out. What I actually recommend is doing 40 new cards a day along side ZERO reviews. Then up it to 50 cards a day when you finish the 3 star words. And then 60 cards a day when you start the 1 star words. At the same time, do a minimum of 90 minutes of immersion of TV or Youtube content with subtitles every day. 90 minutes is really the sweet spot. If you can't do 90 minutes, try to do at least an hour. More than 90 minutes only if you're not tired and really enjoying it.
When you study the cards, listen to the new word, and then follow the voice over every word in the deck. After words, read the top word again and if you don't know what it means, flip the card over read it again with the translations, and fail the card. If you do know what it means, just immediate pass it as fast as possible. DON'T DWELL ON ANYTHING. Fail fast. Fail often. And just try to get through all your cards as quickly as possible. It might be counter intuitive, but you'll be better for it. The goal is for you to be able to get a gist of Korean being spoken at a native speed, not for you to be able to sit there an analyze it all day until you feel like you perfectly understand Korean from the lens of a non-native speaker. Trust the process.
If you follow these instructions to the t, you will have studied every new card within just over 7 months, and you will have about 320 hours of immersion done. At this point, you should be pretty comfortable watching whatever you want in Korean. You will be definitely ready to start outputting. But you're korean will not be perfect. Not everything fron the deck will have stuck, but you'll be surprised how much you know. At this point, you can do 1 of 3 things: start making your own deck with sentences containing new words from your immersion, start reviewing 100+ cards a day from the deck, or just do whatever you want. It's a free country.
Even if you don't follow my instructions, because you don't have time to no-life korean or whatever, I still hope you find it useful. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments.
Best, Joseph
| id | 14974 |
| word | 가렵다 |
| stars | 2 |
| translation | itchy |
| korean_a | 눈이 왜 그렇게 빨개? |
| english_a | Why are your eyes so red? |
| korean_b | 가려워서 손으로 비볐더니 그렇게 됐어. |
| english_b | I scratched it because it was itchy, and it became like this. |
| type | simple |
| audio | |
| sort_order | 1939 |
| id | 70848 |
| word | 절 |
| stars | 2 |
| translation | prostration bow |
| korean_a | 선생님, 절 받으세요. |
| english_a | Teacher, please accept my prostration bow. |
| korean_b | 어허, 내가 벌써 절 받을 나이가 됐나. |
| english_b | Oh my, am I already at the age to receive a prostration bow. |
| type | simple |
| audio | |
| sort_order | 3542 |
| id | 24950 |
| word | 재작년 |
| stars | 2 |
| translation | the year before last year |
| korean_a | 누나가 결혼한 지 얼마나 되었지? |
| english_a | How long has it been since my sister got married? |
| korean_b | 그게 벌써 재작년이니까 이 년이 다 되어 가네. |
| english_b | That was already the year before last year, so this year is almost over. |
| type | simple |
| audio | |
| sort_order | 3492 |