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Korean first words and phrases for toddlers

1,000+ illustrated words and 500+ everyday phrases in Hangul, each one spoken by a woman’s and a man’s native Korean voice. Ages 0–5. Free to start.

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PhraseFree card

사랑해요.

“I love you.” · Me & My People

A child kissing a parent’s cheek — the illustration on the 사랑해요 card

Hear it in Korean

Both clips are the app’s own audio, copied straight from the bundle. Tap one, then say it yourself — that second part is the one that counts.

1,000+illustrated words
500+everyday phrases
3,094Korean clips, bundled
2native voices per card

The phrases library

Say these today.

These eight are in the free set, so you can say them tonight without paying anything. They are grouped by the moment they belong to, and labelled with the theme the app files them under. Tap either voice.

Mealtime

  • 더 주세요.

    “More, please.”

    I Want & I Need

  • 다 했어요.

    “All done.”

    No, Stop & All Done

Bedtime

  • 잘 자, 푹 자.

    “Good night, sleep tight.”

    Talk With Me

  • 어두운 게 무서워요.

    “I'm afraid of the dark.”

    How I Feel

Playtime

  • 어디 갔어요?

    “Where did it go?”

    Where Things Go

  • 우리 같이 해냈어요!

    “We did it together!”

    Let's Play Together

Big Feelings

  • 슬퍼요.

    “I'm sad.”

    How I Feel

  • 화났어요!

    “I'm mad!”

    How I Feel

The words library

First words, in three stages.

You pick a stage and the app shows that stage’s words — each has its own free 25, and they do not overlap. Here are 24 real words, eight per stage: the four with a picture are free and play right now; the four beneath are in the paid library.

First Words 0–24 months

Free — picture, Korean word, both voices.

  • A watercolor mother holding her baby — the word card for mama

    엄마

    mama

    People

  • A watercolor glass of milk — the word card for milk

    우유

    milk

    Food & Drink

  • A watercolor brown dog sitting — the word card for dog

    개

    dog

    Animals

  • A watercolor open hand, palm out — the word card for hand

    손

    hand

    Body

Also in this stage, in the full library

  • 할머니

    grandma

    People

  • 할아버지

    grandpa

    People

  • 밥

    rice

    Food & Drink

  • 달님

    moon

    Nature & Weather

Growing Words 2–3 years

Free — picture, Korean word, both voices.

  • Two watercolor children standing arm in arm — the word card for friend

    친구

    friend

    People

  • A watercolor rainbow — the word card for rainbow

    무지개

    rainbow

    Nature & Weather

  • A watercolor penguin standing — the word card for penguin

    펭귄

    penguin

    Animals

  • A watercolor child brushing their teeth — the word card for brush teeth

    양치하다

    brush teeth

    Actions

Also in this stage, in the full library

  • 선생님

    teacher

    People

  • 학교

    school

    Places

  • 연

    kite

    Toys

  • 부끄럽다

    shy

    Feelings

Word Builder 3–5 years

Free — picture, Korean word, both voices.

  • A watercolor child standing tall with hands on hips — the word card for proud

    자랑스럽다

    proud

    Feelings

  • A watercolor child in a lab coat and goggles holding a flask — the word card for scientist

    과학자

    scientist

    People

  • A watercolor volcano erupting — the word card for volcano

    화산

    volcano

    Nature & Weather

  • A watercolor child saying sorry to another child beside a broken toy car — the word card for apologize

    사과하다

    apologize

    Actions

Also in this stage, in the full library

  • 병원

    hospital

    Places

  • 해마

    seahorse

    Animals

  • 바이올린

    violin

    Toys

  • 용감하다

    brave

    Feelings

The whole library, not a smaller edition

What’s inside for Korean.

  • 1,000+ words in 16 categories — Animals, Food & Drink, Body, Home, Clothes, Toys, Vehicles, Nature & Weather, Places, People, Actions, Colors, Numbers, Shapes, Feelings, and Everyday Words.
  • Three age stages — First Words (0–24 months), Growing Words (2–3 years), Word Builder (3–5 years). You choose; the app never quietly moves your child on.
  • 500+ phrases in 9 themes — I Want & I Need, No, Stop & All Done, Look at This!, What’s Happening, Where Things Go, Me & My People, Let’s Play Together, How I Feel, and Talk With Me.
  • 3,094 Korean clips — a woman’s and a man’s native voice on every word and every phrase, all bundled in the app so nothing needs a signal.
  • Korean comes with the other seven — English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and Russian are in the same app, at the same one price. Switch language on the card itself, without losing your place.
  • 75 words and 35 phrases free, forever — 25 words for each stage, all in Korean, with both voices and their pictures.

Straight from the catalog

How the Korean actually reads.

  • Hangul, and only Hangul. There is no romanization anywhere in the app — not under the word, not as a toggle. None of the 1,021 Korean word entries and none of the 526 phrase entries contains a single Latin letter. That costs something on day one if you cannot read Hangul, and it buys back a child looking at the writing system they will actually meet. Until then the speaker button is your romanization, and it is more accurate than any spelling.
  • Two voices matter more in Korean than people expect. Pitch and sentence-final intonation carry a lot in spoken Korean and sit differently on a woman’s voice and a man’s. A child who has only heard 사랑해요 in one voice has heard one shape of it — so every card carries both, and the switch is on the card.
  • The polite level a child would really use. 333 of the 526 Korean phrases end in -요 — 해요체, the everyday polite level — and every one of those is a line the child says: 더 주세요, 다 했어요, 사랑해요. The 135 lines written for the grown-up are in plain form instead, because that is how a parent speaks to a small child: 잘 자, 푹 자. Not one phrase in the set uses the formal -습니다 ending; nobody talks that way at bath time.
  • Verbs and feelings in dictionary form. 127 of the 128 Korean action words end in -다 — 양치하다, 사과하다 — and all 25 feeling words are descriptive verbs in the same shape: 부끄럽다, 용감하다. It is the form a child hears conjugated a hundred ways, so it is the one worth having in your head.
  • The words Korean parents use with babies. Sun, moon and star carry the affectionate -님: 해님, 달님, 별님. Rice on the table is 밥. Dog is 개 so that puppy can keep 강아지, the word a toddler hears far more often.
  • Where the picture does the work. Eight Korean strings in the catalog spell two or three different cards, and the illustration is what separates them — a small argument for pictures over word lists.
  • 눈eye · snow
  • 배pear · tummy · boat
  • 다리leg · bridge
  • 턱chin · jaw
  • 불light · fire
  • 풀glue · grass
  • 위up · above
  • 가져오다fetch · bring

Why most families open these cards

For the grandparents.

For many families this is the whole motive, so it is worth saying plainly: you want your child to be able to talk to 할머니 and 할아버지.

Video calls are hard on a toddler — a face, a lag, questions in a language they hear once a week, and a small person who goes quiet and wanders off. What changes that is not fluency. It is having three or four things your child can produce on cue — 사랑해요, 고마워요, 보고 싶어요 — so the call has somewhere to start. Practise them at bedtime in the week; use them on Sunday. Hearing your own language come back from a two-year-old is a good thing to be able to give someone.

It works the same for families driving to Korean school on Saturday mornings. The classroom is two hours a week; the words have to live somewhere in between, and a minute at breakfast with four cards is not homework. With up to four child profiles, an older sibling on 과학자 and a baby on 엄마 keep their own lists.

Questions parents ask

Korean questions.

Do I need to read Hangul to use the Korean cards?

No. Every Korean card carries a speaker button with a woman’s voice and a man’s, both native. Tap it, listen, say it back. The English is on the card too — and after a few weeks of the same twenty cards, most parents start recognising the Hangul without meaning to.

How polite is the Korean my child hears?

The child’s lines are in 해요체, the everyday polite level: 333 of the 526 Korean phrases end in -요, and every one is a child’s line. The 135 grown-up lines are in plain form, because that is how a parent speaks to a small child. Nothing in the set uses the formal -습니다 ending.

Is Korean an extra purchase?

No. All eight languages sit in the same app at the same price. Free forever is 75 words and 35 phrases in Korean, both voices. One $9.99 purchase opens the rest of the 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases, in every language at once. Nothing renews.

Everything else — teaching a language you don’t speak, screen time for a baby, what the $9.99 unlocks — is answered on the FAQ.

Simple Words, Special Moments

Start with one word.

75 words and 35 phrases are free, forever — in Korean, with both voices. One $9.99 purchase opens the rest of the 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases, in all eight languages at once. No subscription, nothing renews.

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No ads, ever Private by design Works offline No account needed Up to 4 children iPhone, iPad, and Android

On Apple, the purchase is set up for Family Sharing. Google Play has no in‑app‑purchase family sharing, so on Android it stays with the account that bought it.

Same app, same card

More languages.

Korean sits alongside seven others in the same app, on the same card. If your family runs on two of them, both are already here.