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Learn Korean anew with the 'Listen and Learn Korean' app! Along with presenting the correct definitions of over 60,000 Korean words, 'Listen and Learn Korean' has established, for the first time in the world, notations for each word's tone (pitch and length) and phonetic value (sound duration), while also providing detailed instructions on how to pronounce each word. In addition to recordings of over 47,000 words, we have created over 96,000 new example sentences to demonstrate actual usage. Long vowel markings have been added to each word in these sentences to help you distinguish between long and short vowels while reading. Furthermore, you can listen to the recorded pronunciations, record your own pronunciation, and compare them. Improve your Korean vocabulary and grammar skills by listening, reading, and pronouncing yourself.

There is no language anywhere in the world without stress (accent) or the rise and fall of intonation. Our language also has rules regarding 'how to pronounce sounds.' However, in the current Korean language, the inherent pitch and length of pronunciation of each word are disregarded and not taught.

Try learning Korean anew with the 'Listen and Learn Korean' app! Accordingly, 'Listen and Learn Korean' aims to facilitate accurate communication among the public by presenting tonal markings and long vowel indicators, as well as providing recordings of correct pronunciation, thereby fully preserving the phonetic characteristics inherent to the Korean language. This will also open a new chapter in the spread of the Korean language by ensuring that many foreigners encountering Korean as a foreign language are exposed to correct pronunciation.

- You can quickly search for vocabulary you are curious about through the 'Words and Example Sentences' function. Related words and example sentences are provided simultaneously, allowing you to immediately check real-world usage examples for each word.

- You can verify the accurate pronunciation of each word by listening to recordings that apply phonetic values ​​such as level, rising, falling, and entering tones, as well as long vowels. If you listen to the correct pronunciation and think, "Okay, so that's how it's pronounced? I should try pronouncing it too!" and press the record button, the app is equipped with a feature that allows you to directly compare and analyze your own pronunciation with the recorded one. Check your pronunciation skills both audibly and visually (via comparison graphs)!

- Through the 'Same Character, Different Sound' feature, you can quickly identify words with the same character but different sounds by listening to and comparing them.

- You can study proverbs in an enjoyable way through 'Proverbs'.

- Through 'Four-Character Idioms', you can check the precise meanings, pronunciations, and examples of actual usage for over 1,800 four-character idioms.

- Through the 'Four-Tone Dictionary', you can utilize the four-tone system—Level, Rising, Falling, and Entering—which are the foundation of accurate pronunciation that should be applied to the Korean language, as well as the functions of a dictionary.

- Through 'All Our Language', we have divided the country into eight regions to allow you to compare expressions and meanings regarding the interesting and endearing regional dialects that we have previously dismissed as mere 'regional dialects'. When combined with standard Korean, you can examine nine different regional dialects at a glance. - Since written words (the correct name for Sino-Korean words), which account for over 80% of our vocabulary, are listed alongside every word and example sentence, learning Chinese characters becomes natural simply by looking at them.

'Listen and Learn Korean' was produced with the support of many citizens who lamented the current reality of the Korean language: the indiscriminate introduction of loanwords, the disregard for our original written words (Sino-Korean words), a confusing writing system involving spacing and the interdental 's' (사이시옷), and the loss of proper phonetic values ​​and tones, which has turned the language into a dry, emotionless existence.

Just as etiquette serves as an order within society, language is also a social order. Clear and correct language leads to a proper spirit (consciousness), and consequently, society will also change to become clear and righteous.

“With this one app, I won't need to buy my child a separate Korean dictionary, a four-character idiom dictionary, or a dialect dictionary.” - Housewife Kim OO

“Listening to the voice actor’s pronunciation makes our language feel more vivid and clear. I used to wonder why other languages ​​have tones while ours is so dry and emotionless, but it turns out they were always there, and we just hadn't learned or taught them until now!”

- Office Worker Park OO

“The example sentences are really fun and full of sophistication. The example sentences in existing Korean dictionaries are so stiff that students couldn't find them interesting.”

- Retired Teacher Jung OO

“I introduced this to a foreign friend who is interested in the Korean language, and they said they had never seen such an interesting dictionary before and kept pressing the pronunciation buttons to mimic the sounds!”

- Software Developer Park OO

“I believe the new approach and direction regarding the Korean language demonstrated by the ‘Listen and Learn Korean Dictionary’ is worthy of academic research and discussion in terms of phonetic segmentation and linguistic awareness.”

- Language Instructor Shin OO