Tadanojin is a place to learn Korean by playing — built and run by Jin, a working Korean tutor who teaches online every week. Everything here is free, in both English and Japanese.
Who’s behind the site
I’m Jin, an online Korean tutor based in Hwaseong, Korea. I teach one-to-one lessons over Zoom to Korean learners from a range of language backgrounds — you can book a lesson directly with me, or find me on AmazingTalker and Preply. Tadanojin grew out of those lessons: the same questions, the same tricky grammar points, and the same “wait, why is it this particle?” moments came up again and again, so I started turning them into games, tools, and short lessons anyone can use for free.
What you’ll find here
- Learning games — a growing library of quick, browser-based games, each built around one thing that only sticks with practice: reading Hangul, choosing the right particle, matching sound to spelling. New games are added regularly, and each one is its own way in.
- Study tools — GrammarKO breaks down any Korean sentence you paste in (the grammar patterns, what they mean, examples, and exercises), and LingoFlash turns vocabulary into practical flashcard decks. They’re the first two of more tools on the way.
- Lesson notes — short posts about what real learners struggle with and how to get past it, written in both English and Japanese.
Why the lesson notes are different
Most grammar blogs are written from a textbook. These posts come from real lessons — the actual points where a learner got stuck, explained the way I’d explain them in class. Every post is fully anonymized: no names, no personal details, nothing that could identify a student. What’s left is the useful part — the mistake, the reason behind it, and the fix.
Learn with a real tutor
Everything here is free, but a game can’t ask you a follow-up question or catch the habit you don’t know you have. If you want to go faster, that’s what lessons are for.
Book a lesson directly with me →
Prefer a platform? You can also find me on AmazingTalker and Preply.