- ISBN13: 9780071544405
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Korean Basics Made Easy–and Fun! Studying Korean is intimidating. Not only do you face the usual challenges of learning a new language–vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses–but you also have to learn a non-Roman alphabet. To help you master the language, Read & Speak Korean for Beginners entertains you while you learn, lessening the anxiety of a new script and increasing your confidence in your language skills. This program teaches you basic vocab… More >>
Yup, this is the best one out there. There are some stuff that I had understood from other books but when I got my hands on this..I became more clear and more understand more grammars. I have gone through halfway, and shamelessly, I may say that I am proud of my Hangungmal..he he he.
If you are thinking to buy it..then stop thinking, buy this book, although the enclosed CD helps me little (man, those Korean speaker speaking too fast like nobody’s business)
Rating: 5 / 5
I finally found a Korean language that helped me make sense of learning Korean. The most important thing is the CD, which really makes the big difference in making this the best Korean language book I have found. The only problem is that the book does not do a good job of teaching the Korean alphabet/script. It assumes you did the previous book or already know it. But even if other Korean books I have bought did a better job with the alphabet, but after that they got very confusing.
This book explains the words better, and the flashcards and games are a big help. The CD makes it much better, and the best reason to buy this book,
I would recommend buying this book. There is a previous book YOUR FIRST 100 WORDS IN KOREAN, which introduce the Korean script, or there are many online sites that teach the Alphabet but get very confusing afterward.
Rating: 5 / 5
A very very good starting place. This on top of online tutorials will get you going pretty quick. Haven’t really used the audio CD yet, but I’m about 3/4 of the way through the book and I feel its been really worthwhile.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is simple to understand and straightforward in its approach to teaching Korean. The authors’ choice of vocabulary and game building exercises are enjoyable and also achieve the aim of being memorable. Unlike the dozens of mindless repetition-based books, this book teaches you how to build thousands of sentences from a handful of key words. I study from five Korean books, and this is the only book where all terms and sentences are fully translated.
Highly recommended++
Rating: 5 / 5
I absolutely love McGraw Hill’s Read and Speak — for Beginners series. It provides a reassuringly simple introduction to some of the more difficult languages for English speakers to learn.
To anyone not familiar with the series, here is what you get: A book of games, puzzles, light grammar and useful vocabulary with a CD to help with pronunciation. You will not be fluent after finishing but you eill have some excellent knowledge under your belt and confidence to move on.
The Korean entry into the series follows these lines. The book has a very brief section on the Korean alphabet (hangul) in the back but there are dozens of resources available online to quickly learn this easy script. The rest of the book is written in hangul with tranliterations to the side.
I can easily recommend this book to anyone tackling the admittedly challenging Korean language. It gives the bare basics and some of the exercises reminded me of first grade but it will give a solid foundation. I do, however, have one caveat.
The enclosed CD features native Korean speakers (their accents when speaking English are very charming) but they speak very.very.slowly. Each.syllable.sounded.out.
Now, if you have heard Korean, you know that the language flows, almost to the point of slurring sounds together. While the slow pace of the speakers is good for hearing the pure sounds of the language, it will not show you how Korean ACTUALLY sounds. The speakers do speed up slightly later in the CD and I suggest listening ahead if you are not sure how the language sounds. Or better, tune into a K-Drama.
In spite of this problem, I think this set is a good investment. It is affordable and is good for those days when a language learner just can’t face the grammar books. It would be pretty useless to anyone who knows the basics already but any beginner can benefit from its easy pace and activities.
Rating: 4 / 5