Free Starter Kit

Start Korean here. Five steps, in order.

Starting Korean can feel confusing when free materials are scattered. This kit puts Ashley's beginner materials into one practical order. Everything here is free, and nothing asks for your card.

Time needed: about 20 minutes per step. You can do one step a day for five days, or all of it in one afternoon.
The Kit

Your five steps

Do them in this order. Each step builds on the one before it.

1

Find out where you really are

Check your reading, speaking, listening, grammar comfort, and your main goal.

Why first: your reading and speaking comfort may be different. This check helps you choose a practical starting point.

Already finished? Send Ashley your Step 1 answers in the message box for a free quick level check.

2

Read Hangul without romanization

Learn the Korean letters and how they stack into blocks.

Why now: Hangul is small and regular. Reading it directly helps you practice the Korean sounds written on the page.

3

Make your sounds clear

Train the sound pairs that beginners mix up: 가 / 카 / 까, 다 / 타 / 따, 바 / 파 / 빠.

Why now: pronunciation is physical. Practicing it early makes later speaking work easier.

4

Say who you are

Build your own self-introduction: name, country, job, why you study Korean.

Why now: a short self-introduction is useful in many first conversations. Preparing it turns study into something you can say aloud.

안녕하세요. 저는 한국어를 배워요.
Hello. I am learning Korean.
5

Use it outside your notebook

Take the phrases you need in a real place — a shop, a taxi, a restaurant — plus a free sample of ten speaking patterns.

Why last: using the phrases aloud helps connect the first four steps to practical conversation.

Be Honest With Yourself

What this kit does and does not do

It does

  • Give you a correct order to start in.
  • Get you reading Hangul directly.
  • Give you one sentence you can actually say to a Korean person.
  • Show you how Ashley teaches, before you pay anything.

It does not

  • Promise fluency or a guaranteed result.
  • Correct your pronunciation — paper cannot hear you.
  • Replace speaking practice with a real teacher.
  • Ask for payment or card details anywhere.
Teacher note: the two things a worksheet can never do for you are listening to your sounds and answering your specific questions. That is the whole reason lessons exist.
One Next Step

Send Ashley your level check when you are ready.

Ashley Baek is a certified Korean Language Teacher (Level 2, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) based in Seoul. Use the contact form and paste what you wrote in Step 1 into the message box. Ashley can suggest a practical place to start. There is no charge for that answer, and no obligation to book anything.

Want more practice sheets? The rest of the free library — TOPIK planner, business Korean, K-drama expressions, homework tracker — is in the Free Korean Learning Materials page. Finish the five steps first.