Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly

by Samuel E. Martin, Laura Kingdon (Editor)

Designed for beginning Korean learners, Practical Korean gives you only what you need--including an essential pronunciation guide and key grammar points. This concise Korean language book is organized into 46 easy lessons that help you grasp everything from names and greetings to casual remarks. It is designed for English speakers traveling to Korea, although it can be used by anyone wishing to learn Korean and acquire a basic working knowledge of conversational Korean in a short period. Engagingly illustrated with manga-style drawings, this volume A basic pronunciation guide Essential vocabulary and practical sentences Information on Korean sentence patterns and critical grammar points A 3,000-word Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean dictionary Native speaker audio recordings to aid pronunciation Even readers without any prior knowledge of Korean will grasp the necessary basics to get conversing and communicating in Korean fast and painlessly!

Genres: Language

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2017

Reviews

[Nicki Markus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although it relies over-heavily on romanisation at times, Practical Korean is a useful guide for those starting out learning Korean as, unlike other books that base their chapters on scenarios and dialogues, it sets out the basics of grammar and sentence structure in easy to follow, bite-size pieces and it is quick and simple to refer back to different sections when you are writing in Korean and need to check something. The included recordings are also helpful for pronunciation purposes.

[Grace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although this book had some good knowledge in it, it would have been made tremendously better if it had actual hangul in it rather than all romanization. Romanization kind of sets back a learner to a certain extent with pronunciation and comprehension. A major part of language learning is understanding and trying to understand from a romanized point of view in a different alphabet is extremely odd. It can be uncomfortable to learn the alphabet, but it is uncomfortable to learn a language. It is uncomfortable to learn anything honestly, but it is such a vital step in understanding and learning a language. I didn't get much use out of this book due to the romanization, but I did like how compact it was overall. I feel like it could of had some really good phrases for me to learn if it had been in hangul.

[Katelyn Shellman · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was poorly written. It would often introduce new grammar points, say it was going to give example sentences, and then give example sentences without the grammar. It had several translation errors and typos, which is usually forgivable but much less so when it's an error in translation in a book about translation. Once it introduced a grammar point and then didn't include it at any point in the rest of the book. I would not recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn Korean.

[Alberto Loredo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a quite useful book although there were grammar points where romanization was the only resource used to explain them (no hangeul). I didn't grasp all the grammar points properly due to the fact that romanization is not accurate. serves as a guide to pronounce but does not serve to teach Korean instead of hangeul.

[Anne Lydolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough and easy to get started on!