How to Learn Korean with ChatGPT

A Korean sentence changes its ending with the person you're talking to, so the same "I'm going home" can end in 가요, 갑니다, or 가. That's why a Korean prompt for ChatGPT should name the style you're practicing. The prompts below use the polite 해요 style, the one you'd use with a shop clerk or a new coworker.

Which ChatGPT Prompts Work for Korean?

Read Korean at Your Level

Tell ChatGPT that you read Hangul, which speech level to use, and which Korean words you know.

Ask About Particles and Endings

Much of Korean grammar is in the particles after nouns and the endings on verbs, so ask about those one by one.

Role-Play at a Convenience Store

Pick a place you'll really go, and keep the speech level fixed so you hear one style at a time.

In ChatGPT Voice, you can say your replies out loud. OpenAI's help page says that choosing the language you usually speak, under Settings → Voice → Language, helps ChatGPT understand your speech more accurately.

Get Your Writing Corrected

Ask for the reason behind each fix, and ask about spacing too, since Korean puts a space after each word, and the particles stay attached to the word before them.

For longer prompts, Bubblegum's Korean prompt page builds them for you. It has one for a lesson about any topic, one for a Korean text you found, one for a word you want to remember, and one for TOPIK II writing practice.

How Do You Check ChatGPT's Korean?

When ChatGPT states a grammar rule, ask where the rule comes from, then check it. OpenAI's help page says ChatGPT can give a wrong meaning for a word and still sound sure.

• 📖Use a Korean DictionaryThe Korean-English Learners' Dictionary from the National Institute of Korean Language gives English meanings.
• 📝Check the StyleCheck that each reply stays in the speech level you asked for. If a line ends in -ㅂ니다 or -습니다, like 갑니다, or in casual speech, ask ChatGPT to rewrite that line in the 해요 style.
• 🔖Keep Your Level in a ProjectA ChatGPT project keeps chats, files, and instructions together, and OpenAI says projects work on the free plan too. Add your word list and your level once, and every chat in it can use them.
• 🔍Check the SpacingAsk ChatGPT to put a slash between the words of a sentence it wrote, so you can see which particles attach to which word.

Where Does Bubblegum Fit?

Bubblegum is a language app with Korean lessons sorted into six levels, so you start reading at the one that fits you.

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For serious learners, Bubblegum is the best app to learn Korean. You learn from Korean you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.

Poppy, your AI tutor, writes Korean lessons about a topic you pick, at the level you're reading.

• You can ask Poppy about any line while you read.
• Practice the 해요 style out loud with Poppy in live voice chat.
• Paste a KakaoTalk message into your chat, and Poppy explains it line by line.
• Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.

• You can't import a whole webtoon or book to read in Bubblegum.
• A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn.

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