Charming, Satisfactory – Learn Korean Alphabets Review

These are animated-sheep-flashcards with an audio-track, just what I wanted! Low-key, very simple alphabet matching game. Good for ages 2+. I am an adult and I'm happy with it too. The only thing this app does is teach you the Korean alphabet. Just like ABC's, you learn what letters make what sounds. The sheep are way cuter than flashcards, which is the alternative. It is exactly as the screen-shots represent. It only teaches you the alphabet. The games do not keep score, beyond telling you if that particular match is correct or not. It is a very relaxing, almost meditative exercise. In my first 15 minutes of learning Korean this app taught me to recognize at least six of the letters. I love it! -- You should use headphones or external speakers because the difference between the audio tracks for O and U and YU is too subtle for the iPhone speakers to handle. Or the audio is not the best. Headphones make it good. -- The right/wrong notifications during the balloon exercise are small and positioned under the hand you tap with, so you actually have to move your hand and check the little text at the bottom of the screen to see if you tapped the right sheep. Learning would be improved by animation, like the correct sheep lights up or a larger message appears in the sky, or something. -- I wish they had included the characters that represent the dipthongs. Korean is a phonetic language and you're missing some of the sounds in the korean alphabet but not learning those characters. Some of them are very different! For instance the "wa" and "wo" sounds ONLY emerge through dipthongs.
Review by mankybam on Learn Korean Alphabets.