Practical Korean: Your Guide to Speaking Korean Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours

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Tuttle Publishing, 2008 - 176 pages
Practical Korean is an introduction to basic Korean that is concise, simple, and useful from the very first page. Intended for beginners, the book concentrates only on key grammar and pronunciation points. Most of the lessons include exercises that reinforce vocabulary items and grammatical structures. Phrases and sentences are recycled for long-term learning. Over 200 simple illustrations allow even beginners to express themselves. The lessons have been devised to facilitate easy language study and are conversationally applicable as soon as they are learned. Printed in a handy pocket-size format and, with Joan V. Underwood's English-Korean Dictionary, Practical Korean is indispensable to getting along in Korea.

Table des matières

About This Revised Edition
5
Introduction
6
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Sound Changes
14
Names and Greetings
18
Sentence Structure
21
Some Useful Expressions
23
More Handy Nouns
43
Particles
45
More Particles
48
Some Tricky Particles
52
Numerals
57
Nouns Ending in t
60
Counting Things
62
Telling Time
66

More Useful Expressions
26
Is and Has
31
Styles of Speech
35
Some Handy Nouns
40
What Day Is It?
68
Months and Years
71
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Samuel E. Martin received his undergraduate degree and master's degree in oriental languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean, including the definitive "A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean."

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