How Haru works
Follow a fictional young designer in Portland: an unplanned plant, a tiny apartment, and Korean made from her own three sentences. Scroll through a preview built from the actual generated lesson.
Write
A first design job, an unexpected plant, and a small apartment. Write or speak in English, then tap Create lesson.
On my way home from my first design job in Portland, I ducked into a little shop to escape the rain and came out with a plant I hadn't planned to buy.
The owner assured me it was easy to look after, so I decided to give my gardening skills another chance.
I put it by the window of my tiny rented apartment, and now the whole place feels a little more alive.
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Your Korean Story
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On my way home from my first design job in Portland, I ducked into a little shop to escape the rain and came out with a plant I hadn't planned to buy.
Grammar
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(-ryeogo) indicates an intention or plan to perform a certain action, and implies that the next action is taken in order to achieve that action.
(-e-seo) is a word attached to indicate the place or starting point where an action takes place, or the standard of comparison.
(-a/eoseo) is an expression that links sentences, indicating that the event in the preceding clause becomes the cause or reason for the following clause. It attaches as '-아서' after stems whose final sound is close to ㅏ or ㅗ, as '-어서' after stems with other sounds, and as '-해서' after '-하다' verbs and adjectives.
(-daga) indicates a flow where an action or state proceeds but changes to another action or state or stops midway.
(-euro) is a word that attaches to the names of people or things with a final consonant to indicate means, methods, directions, qualifications, etc.
Polite spoken ending (haeyo style).
Basic grammar
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(-n/eun) '-n/eun' modifies the word that follows to describe the state, nature, or completed actions of a person or thing. Usually, '-n' is attached if there is no final consonant, and '-eun' is attached if there is a final consonant. For example, in “따뜻한 옷을 입었어요.”, “한” inside “따뜻한” is the grammar form, and “따뜻한” describes the following noun “옷”.
Connects clauses (listing/sequence).
Marks time/place/direction reference.
Adds meaning of also/too.
Adds past tense information.
Marks object.
Marks object.
Vocabulary
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home
design job
Portland,
ducked into
Base form: 들어가다
The Korean says the speaker went into the shop, while “ducked into” adds the quick, shelter-seeking feel of escaping the rain.
little
Base form: 작다
shop
to escape
Base form: 피하다
rain
came out
Base form: 나오다
plant
planned
Korean expresses planning with the noun 계획 in a phrase meaning there was no plan, while English uses the verb “planned.”
Phrases and clauses
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On my way home
ducked into a little shop
to escape the rain
came out with a plant
a plant I hadn't planned to buy.
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On my way home from my first design job in Portland, I ducked into a little shop to escape the rain and came out with a plant I hadn't planned to buy.
Recorded example
Three English sentences became three Korean sentences, 30 grammar entries, 27 vocabulary entries, and 10 phrase or clause entries. Results vary with the diary.
The Korean says the speaker went into the shop, while “ducked into” adds the quick, shelter-seeking feel of escaping the rain.
Korean expresses planning with the noun 계획 in a phrase meaning there was no plan, while English uses the verb “planned.”
Korean frames this as taking on gardening as a challenge again, conveying the attempt to give it another opportunity rather than literally granting skills a chance.
창가 refers to the area beside a window, naturally conveying the location phrase “by the window” in this sentence.
집 전체 means the entirety of the home, serving as the natural contextual equivalent of “the whole place.”
같아요 presents an impression that something seems a certain way, matching “feels” in this context.
생기 names vitality, which Korean uses here to express that the home feels more alive.
