Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)

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Tuttle Publishing, 14 nov. 2017 - 224 pages
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 includes:
  • 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!
 

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Table des matières

Relatives
Honorifics
The Word But
Infinitives and Favors
Expressing May and Must
Helping Verbs
The go Verb Form
Wants and Likes

More Useful Expressions
Is and Has
Styles of Speech
Some Handy Nouns
More Handy Nouns
Particles
More Particles
Some Tricky Particles
Numerals
Nouns Ending in
Counting Things
Telling Time
What Day Is
Months and Years
Negative Sentences
Where Things
Verbs and Adjectives
Infinitive + seo And So Lesson 33 Some Peculiar Verb Types
The Modifiers eun and
The Verb Modifierneun
Ever Never and Sometimes
Before After and While
In the Future
Knows and Can
When and If
Hoping and Wishing
What the Weather Looks Like
Because
Casual Remarks Usingjiyo
Some Abbreviations
The Structure of Verb Forms
Romanization Table
EnglishKorean Dictionary

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À propos de l'auteur (2017)

Samuel E. Martin was a master teacher of Japanese and Korean language and a major force in language learning in the postwar U.S. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees in oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. At Yale, he served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. He is the author of dozens of books and papers on Japanese and Korean Language, including Basic Japanese and the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean.

Laura Kingdon is a graduate of Yonsei University's Korean Language Institute, so she understands firsthand the complexities of learning Korean grammar. She is fluent in several languages and runs a translation firm. She has designed curricula and taught English as a second language to students of all ages, ranging from university students in Kazakhstan to elementary school children in Korea. After years of living in Seoul, she moved to Thailand. She is the author of Essential Korean Grammar.

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