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News is boring. Dramas are too hard.You just want to watch YouTube.

Everyday talk, slang, the way people actually speak. But most Korean videos only have auto-captions, and auto-captions get real speech wrong — which is exactly the speech you are trying to learn.

Send me any Korean YouTube link. I'm Korean, and I'll check it line by line, then turn it into a lesson you can practise with: split into sentences, shadowing loops, meanings for every sentence and every word.

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Why it has to be checked by hand

Auto-captions don't just mishear the odd word — they quietly delete things, and nothing tells you a word is missing. It's easiest to show in German, because these three lines come from the Peppa Pig lessons further down this page, at A1 level. You can open them and check me. The same thing happens in Korean, only it's much harder to spot.

  1. YouTube's auto-captions

    ich bin papa wutz das ist mein stern ab oder chance kriegen

    What is actually said

    Ich bin Peppa Wutz. Das ist mein kleiner Bruder Schorsch.

    The wrong pig introduces herself, and her brother turns into words that mean nothing. — the very first line of the Sportfest lesson

  2. YouTube's auto-captions

    es gibt Äpfel Bananen und eine sehr große Melone

    What is actually said

    Es gibt Äpfel, Orangen, Bananen und eine sehr große Melone.

    A whole fruit disappears. Nothing marks the gap — the sentence still reads fine. — Einkaufen und mehr!

  3. YouTube's auto-captions

    gut du meine Schuhe

    What is actually said

    Schorsch, wie findest du meine Schuhe?

    The question is gone. What is left is not a sentence you could learn from. — Hurra, neue Schuhe!

And it never punctuates. Across both Peppa lessons, YouTube's German captions contain no full stops, no commas and no question marks at all — 430 sentences arrive as one unbroken stream. The corrected transcripts have 293 full stops and 215 commas, put there by hand.

That is not a cosmetic problem. You can't loop a sentence, or shadow one, until something decides where it starts and where it ends.

Read a finished one

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What you get

01

Split into sentences you can actually repeat

Every line is timed to the word, so looping a sentence starts and ends where the sentence does. Loop it with a pause after each repeat, and say it back.

02

Meanings without leaving the page

Hover any chunk to see it broken into its parts. 학교에서는 becomes 학교 + 에서 + 는, with the particle explained. Slang and internet words are annotated by hand.

03

Keep what you learn

Save words and whole sentences, then export them to Anki with a link back to the exact moment in the video. The page is one file, so it stays yours.

Questions you probably have

How many videos can you take?

5 a week. I check every line myself, and that is as many as I can do properly. If the week is already full I'll write back and tell you when I can start, rather than leave you waiting.

How long does it take?

Usually within 1 day. Videos longer than 60 minutes take 2 to 3 days — there is simply more to check.

What actually arrives?

A link to a page exactly like the samples above, plus subtitle files (.srt and .vtt) if you want to watch the video in VLC or IINA with them. Nothing to install, and the page works without logging in.

Which videos work best?

Anything on YouTube where people are talking: vlogs, commentary, interviews, variety clips. Heavy background music or several people shouting over each other is harder, and I will tell you honestly if a video is not going to make a good lesson.

Why not just use auto-captions or an AI transcript?

You can, and for slow scripted speech they are fine. For casual speech they are not — see the examples above, where whole words vanish from a children’s cartoon without leaving a gap. Names, slang and anything mumbled is where they break, and that is the part you most want to learn.

What if something in the lesson is wrong?

Reply to the email and tell me which line. I will re-check it and send the corrected page back — the link stays the same, so nothing you saved breaks.

Do you do languages other than Korean?

The German samples above were made the same way, so the method is not Korean-only. But requests are Korean for now — that is the language I can check line by line without guessing.

What do you do with my email?

I send you the lesson. That's it — no list, no newsletter, nothing passed on. If you want it deleted afterwards, email imyeonji520@gmail.com and I'll delete it.

One video, checked line by line

Pick the video you keep rewinding.

Paste the link, give me an email. I'll watch it, check every line, and send the lesson back within 1 day.

Send me a video5 spots a week

Made by hand, by Yeonji. I'm a native Korean speaker and I write the software that builds these pages, then check the transcript myself before anything goes out. If a video won't make a good lesson, I'll tell you instead of sending you something thin. Questions go straight to me at imyeonji520@gmail.com.

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