Product Description
Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.
This book presents twenty-five individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Korean. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.
Basic Korean is suitable for both class use as we… More >>
Of course no textbook is perfect in all respects, but I am very happy with this book. I have about 175 Korean grammar books in my collection so far and I must say that this book is destined to be one of my favorites. The author explains certain aspects of Korean grammar in a different way which enables me to understand the material being taught. It is lke a different perspective which gives me an “aha” moment when the lightbulb above my head suddenly lights up. I believe that “Basic Korean: A Grammar Workbook” should be in every student’s Korean grammar book library.
Rating: 5 / 5
Korean grammar is very tricky in the beginning, so you need good material to help you with it.
To me this was a great supplement to my textbook studies.
This book is ideal for beginners of Korean, for the following reasons:
1. many varied exercises
2. shorter chapters for smoother progress
3. builds up a basic vocabulary of ~400 words
4. clearly explained in non-technical manner
The first chapter covers pronunciation and has many exercises to make sure you can read the script before continuing.
In the remaining chapters there is no romanization.
Each chapter usually has a set of vocabulary to learn, which are needed for the exercises at the end of the chapter.
The grammar is explained very clearly and with examples, the language is not very technical.
To some extent you can skip to whatever chapter you want to use, save for the first chapter that covers pronunciation.
However, this is first and foremost a workbook and not a reference book for grammar, and some chapters do assume that you have done previous ones. So treat this as any other workbook.
In a previous review, before editing, I stated that the book has romanized versions of all words, I was mistaken about this and have corrected the mistake. It just happens that I am using 3 books in the same series and publisher – Chinese, Cantonese and Korean – and I got the them a bit mixed-up, that’s all.
Rating: 5 / 5