A search engine for spoken Korean

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Type a word or a grammar ending. Gwenchana finds every moment it’s spoken across 1,989 YouTube videos — and plays them back to back.

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Textbook examples exist to demonstrate a rule. Nobody speaks that way.

Dictionary example

저는 어제 도서관에서 책을 읽었습니다.

Grammatically perfect. Written by a textbook author. You will never hear it.

From a real podcast

이런 질문들을 많이 하시더라고요.

Someone said this on camera. Click it and you hear the intonation too.

It reads what you type.

Korean bends. 먹었어요 and 먹을 때 share a stem but mean different things — so the search picks a mode, and you can switch it.

먹었어요

Exact form

That form and nothing else. Not every relative of the verb.

291 results

먹다

All conjugations

Every way it bends: 먹었어, 먹는데, 먹을까.

2,043 results

-더라고요

Grammar ending

Matched on morpheme tags, not text. No dictionary does this.

4,278 results

더라고요/EF 거든요/EF 잖아요/EF 길래/EC

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people actually said.

Subtitles from public YouTube videos, morpheme-indexed. Clips play on the original channel, so creators keep their views.

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