Frequently asked questions

You can, and it will do a decent job — once. A chatbot corrects your sentence and forgets you. Elephant keeps every correction in a searchable history, feeds your mistakes into your spaced repetition schedule so weak words come back sooner, and pulls example sentences from a shared corpus instead of inventing them on the spot — only sentences confirmed to be correct make the cut. The correction is the start, not the end.

Corrections are AI-generated, so like any AI they are not infallible — and the grader is built to accept valid alternatives rather than force one 'right' answer. The example sentences are surer ground: they come from a shared corpus where only sentences confirmed to be correct are eligible, so you never study a broken example. And if you would rather a human check your work, you can share any attempt with a friend or teacher and keep their notes alongside it in Elephant.

Sentence analysis, sentence search, flashcards, and translation practice are free forever, with no card required. Premium ($10/month) adds automatic AI corrections on every translation and pronunciation scoring; Supporter ($20/month) is for people who want to back the project. Both paid plans start with a 14-day free trial — checkout collects a payment method, but you can cancel any time during the trial and won't be charged. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

If you can read Hangul, you can start. Practice prompts are built from vocabulary you have already studied, so beginners get short, simple sentences and the difficulty grows with you instead of following a fixed curriculum.

No, but Elephant is a progressive web app (PWA), so it works on any device with a browser. Install it on your home screen for an app-like experience on iOS and Android.

None officially, for now. You can create your own courses, and there is a simple built-in one to get started. I would rather not bolt someone else's textbook onto Elephant without their blessing — a lot of work goes into those, and I don't want to step on it.

A few things I want to build next: fill-in-the-blank grammar practice, number practice, and worksheets and classes for the classroom.

Short answer: I am uncreative. Long answer: I found the idea of an elephant mascot cute and couldn't come up with a name to support that idea. Also see the blog on the history of elephant.

No. Learning a language will always be work, until Matrix-style brain uploads are invented.

Not right now. Elephant runs on what its users collectively feed it, so a private instance would lose most of what makes it useful. That said — if you genuinely want your own deployment and have an insane budget to match, get in touch.