Complete Korean Beginner to Intermediate Course

by Mark Vincent, Jaehoon Yeon

Complete Korean gives you all the language, practice and skills to communicate comfortably and accurately with Korean speakers. You'll learn Korean script from the start and move confidently from beginner to intermediate level. You'll soon master the four key skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations, extensive practice and review you will gain the knowledge to use the language how you want to when you want to - from giving opinions to making plans.

Genres: Nonfiction, Language

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Marcus Lira · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have rated it five stars, but there a few caveats I would like to address in case you expect from this book more than it could reasonably deliver. Remember this is a rather small tome with a couple of CDs, so it should be judged as such.

According to the authors, by the time you finish this book, you should be at the B2 level of the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR). Theoretically speaking, I have found it to be partially true. I can recognise the structures when spoken to, for example, and it has helped me go a long way here in Korea. However, like I said above, it is a rather short book (250 pages, A3 size, including answer sheet, dialogue transcription and translation, lots of grammar, and a two-way dictionary) with 2 CD's (or the app, which I used instead), which I took everywhere with me, so there is only so much practice the authors could fit into these pages to make me actually fluent. Instead, it gave me the tools to achieve a passive intermediate level Korean, and I can't always recall what I've read despite having done all the exercises, so you'll be well advised to use this book in tandem with something else that helps you practice more what you have learned here.

My one problem with this book, however, were the open-ended exercises in which I was supposed to imagine a dialogue, for example, with very lax guidelines. They're wonderful in a classroom environment but, given that I'm teaching myself on my own when using this book, it's very unlikely that what I say is precisely what the authors wrote in the answer sheet, so I can never really be sure if I got it right or not.

Having said that, it does a pretty good job at what it's supposed to do: help you teach yourself intermediate Korean.

[Raymond · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good way to get started. Not a comprehensive course (especially considering how short it is), but a good introductory approach.

[Sri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Anggep sudah selesai baca walaupun baru belajar sampai bab 2 :D. Ternyata saya lebih cocok belajar dari http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/korean/kkl1...# daripada dari buku ini. Walaupun model belajarnya mirip yaitu dengan listening lalu ada keterangan struktur bahasa & kosakata namun penjelasan di web sogang dehakyo lebih terstruktur dan lebih mudah saya pahami. Keterangan kosakata yang di buku juga kadang membingungkan karena semua verb yang saya temui sejauh ini diartikan sebagai pergi. Salah di apanya ya, kok bisa berulang-ulang gitu -_-. Kelebihan buku ini mungkin di latihan soalnya yang lebih banyak.

[Carrie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really have no words for this one other than it was a waste of my time to read.

[Yuma]

Ok......