This user-friendly Korean language book pushes readers towards greater fluency in spoken and written Korean. With Essential Korean Vocabulary, you will learn to speak Korean the way that Koreans do by learning key words and expressions they use every day in their natural contexts. You'll also learn closely-related vocabulary together, which will help you remember and use a wider vocabulary. Each word in this book is clearly explained, and useful sentences are given to demonstrate how it's used. Author Kyubyong Park also provides tips on Korean grammar and modern colloquial usage in South Korea, so you can learn to speak like a native speaker. Essential Korean Vocabulary presents the 8,000 most common Korean words and phrases organized into 36 different subject areas. Beginning students can focus on the most basic items, which are clearly marked. As you progress to greater fluency, you can pick up more complicated words and expressions to bring your overall vocabulary and understanding of Korean up to an advanced level. With Essential Korean Vocabulary, you will: Upgrade your Korean skills in stages by learning the most useful words in sequence along a graded spectrum from beginner to advanced. Learn how real Koreans speak in authentic sentences by native speakers. Get special tips about tone, nuance, and correct usage of terms. Learn the vocabulary needed to pass standard Korean proficiency tests.

Vocabulary learning is the single most important component of second-language acquisition. In cases where the second language is unrelated to the learner's native tongue, this task presents special challenges because there are typically few clues in a word's form to assist in learning and remembering its meaning. This book offers a solution to this problem for students of Korean. The Handbook is the first ever "root dictionary" of Korean designed for second-language learners. Useful for students at all levels, it contains more than 1,500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built from a shared root. These lists offer a unique and efficient way for students to acquire new words. Upon encountering a word, students can consult the lists for its component roots and discover many other semantically related words built from the same elements. An introduction provides an overview of Korean vocabulary and detailed instructions on how to use the word lists. A pronunciation guide outlines the major principles determining the pronunciation of compounds and other multipart words in Korean.

Have you been trying to learn Korean and find yourself having trouble discovering and practicing new words?Are traditional textbooks just not helping you out as you expected them to?Do you think that there should be a better way to learning new words in any target language?If you answered "Yes!" to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We've compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in Korean, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen.Did you know that - according to an important study - learning the top two thousand (2000) most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84% of all non-fiction and 86.1% of fiction literature and 92.7% of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers!In this book:?A detailed introduction with tips and tricks on how to improve your learning - here, you will learn the basics to get you started on this marvelous list of Korean terms!?A list of 2000 of the most common words in Korean and their translations?An example sentence for each word - in both Korean and English?Finally, a conclusion to make sure you've learned and supply you with a final list of tipsDon't look any further, we've got what you need right here!In fact, we're ready to turn you into a Korean speaker? what are you waiting for?

Tired of memorizing long lists of Korean words? Hit a roadblock with your Korean? How to Master Korean Vocabulary illustrates how you can take your Korean to the next level by introducing a unique method for learning all the Hanja (Sino-Korean characters) that you need to know- just by remembering English sentences. Among the 300+ entries: - ê¶ This document(å ̧) gives you the authority(æ¬) to encourage(å ̧) by fist(æ3).- 매 Each(æ ̄) and every(æ ̄) store tries to attract(é) buyers(è2·) and sellers(è3£).- ì Drinking liquor(ì ) is a form of art(è¡) that requires skill(è¡).- í A big(æ3°) lazy(æ ) pregnant(è) woman with an attitude(æ) is not the greatest(å¤a) situation(æ).Expand your Korean exponentially with How to Master Korean Vocabulary!

It's never a good idea to be overly-reliant on technology while traveling! Look-up words quickly and easily with this Korean travel dictionary. Tuttle's Mini Korean Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required. This pocket-sized dictionary is intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Korea, or as a Korean language study reference. Mini Korean Dictionary is an essential tool for communicating, and a great way to learn Korean. In addition to being an excellent English to Korean dictionary and Korean to English dictionary, Mini Korean Dictionary contains essential notes on the Korean language, Korean grammar, and Korean pronunciation. All words are written in a Romanized form as well as Korean script (hangul) so that, in case of difficulties, the book can directly be shown to the native speaker you're trying to communicate with. This mini dictionary contains the following essential features: Bidirectional Korean to English and English to Korean Over 12,000 crucial Korean words, as well as useful Korean expressions and idioms A basic overview of Korean grammar and pronunciation All the latest Korean social media and computer terms May be used for all U.S. ESL standardized testing

Learn Korean slang expressions that are used on a daily basis in South Korea. You can understand a lot more of the conversations you hear in Korean by understanding commonly used slang expressions.

This book is a highly readable introduction to Korean pronunciation for students at all levels of proficiency. Beginners will find the information and practice they need to cross the threshold of intelligibility in Korean, while more advanced students will have the opportunity to fine-tune their pronunciation and improve their comprehension. The Sounds of Korean focuses on the most challenging features of Korean pronunciation. Careful attention is paid to the way in which a sound's pronunciation can be modified in different contexts. The first part of the text consists of an overview and chapters on vowel and consonant sounds in Korean, adjustment processes that modify speech sounds in different positions within words and phrases, and the role of prosody in expressing meaning and emotion. The practice exercises that follow are paired with the various contrasts and adjustment processes discussed earlier. These exercises, recorded in MP3 format by two native speakers (male and female) from Seoul, give students systematic, focused exposure to natural colloquial speech that represents the way Korean is actually spoken in the real world.

This portable, user-friendly Korean language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Korean before and during your trip. If you only want to purchase one Korean language book--Essential Korean is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of South Korea and is also designed as a Korean phrasebook, making it the most versatile Korean language learning tool on the market. Perfect for business people or tourist traveling to Korea or for students who want to supplement their learning, this book's easy indexing feature allows it to act as a Korean phrase book or as an English-Korean Dictionary. A clever "point to" feature allows you to simply point to a phrase translated in Korean without the need to say a word. You will soon find yourself turning to Essential Korean again and again when you study Korean, visit Korea and work or interacting with Koreans. In this book you will find: Over 1500 practical sentences for everyday use. A Korean dictionary of over 2000 terms and expressions. Extensive information about Korean grammar and pronunciation. Latest Korean vocabulary and Korean phrases for smartphones, social media and more. This beginner Korean book will help you to quickly and easily learn Korean. Your ability to read Korean, write Korean, speak Korean, and comprehend Korean will be vastly improved without having to take an entire Korean language class. Other titles in this bestselling series of phrasebooks include: Essential Japanese, Essential Chinese, Essential Korean, Essential Tagalog, and Essential Arabic.

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