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Kimchi Reader

App Service · Browsers, media players & utilities · 38 mentions · 2 subreddits · discussed in r/Korean, r/languagelearning

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Pros

  • What ended up working best for me was to sentence mine a lot using Anki and Kimchi Reader and practice that daily.
  • Kimchi Reader is slowly building a database of Korean content that it works with - which includes lots of YouTube videos with soft subtitles (closed captions), so that might be a place to start
  • Kimchi Reader if you aren’t already. These programs/extensions will parse Korean text and/or subtitles on youtube/netflix and determine the lemmas (base words) and attach a popup dictionary so you don’t have to look up words manually. .....
  • #1 resource Id recommend so far, especially if you are grinding input is Kimchi reader. Its basically a browser extension like language reactor but IMO with better parsing, but it also lets you track known word status ALA LingQ but it ac...
  • You should look up "kimchi reader," join the linked discord, and ask the same question. It is a Korean learning product, but not everyone in the server is currently using the product, and there are a TON of people there who watch a lot o...

Sentiment

38 positive (100%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 0 negative (0%)

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What redditors said (10 of 38)

What ended up working best for me was to sentence mine a lot using Anki and Kimchi Reader and practice that daily.
positive · u/d****k · r/Korean · comment · Jan 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Kimchi Reader is slowly building a database of Korean content that it works with - which includes lots of YouTube videos with soft subtitles (closed captions), so that might be a place to start
positive · u/b****n · r/Korean · comment · Jan 10, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Kimchi Reader if you aren’t already. These programs/extensions will parse Korean text and/or subtitles on youtube/netflix and determine the lemmas (base words) and attach a popup dictionary so you don’t have to look up words manually. ... it made learning by immersion so much easier. Now I know approx 17k words and have read about 17 books and countless news articles and podcasts/shows using it.
positive · u/N****6 · r/Korean · comment · Dec 19, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
#1 resource Id recommend so far, especially if you are grinding input is Kimchi reader. Its basically a browser extension like language reactor but IMO with better parsing, but it also lets you track known word status ALA LingQ but it actually parses and tracks by lemma so its way more accurate.
positive · u/N****6 · r/Korean · comment · Aug 7, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
You should look up "kimchi reader," join the linked discord, and ask the same question. It is a Korean learning product, but not everyone in the server is currently using the product, and there are a TON of people there who watch a lot of Korean YouTube.
positive · u/S****n · r/Korean · comment · Dec 9, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
kimchi reader (paid)
positive · u/S****n · r/Korean · comment · Nov 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I started using kimchi reader just a little over a year ago and it's made flashcard making a lot easier, so I've done a lot more vocab acquisition this year.
positive · u/S****n · r/Korean · comment · Nov 4, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
if I had to choose only one resource, it would be Kimchi Reader (and I would sail the high seas for the ebooks).
positive · u/S****n · r/Korean · comment · Aug 7, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I second the recommendation of Kimchi reader. There is a weeklong free trial, no credit card required, so feel free to check it out without pressure. It's great for reading and watching things in Korean, and you can easily look things up and make flashcards.
positive · u/S****n · r/Korean · comment · Feb 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
It's a browser extension that allows you to watch dual subs (English and Korean subs at the same time) and you can highlight words that you know so they'll be highlighted green. It also gives you a full breakdown on how much of the vocab you know from youtube videos so you can pick ones that you will have a higher understanding of.
positive · u/B****s · r/Korean · comment · Jul 15, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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