Colloquial Korean: The Complete Course for Beginners [Book]

✍ Scribed by Danielle Ooyoung Pyun, In-Seok Kim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Colloquial
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For a full list of titles in the Colloquial series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/Colloquial-Series/book-series/SE0069

Colloquial Korean provides a step-by-step course in Korean as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Korean in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Korean will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Korean.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Colloquial Korean
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Map of Korea
Introduction The Korean alphabet, Hangŭl
1 Greetings
2 Where are you going?
3 At the office
4 Where is it?
5 What is this?
6 What time is it?
7 Dining out
8 Meeting people
9 Transportation
10 Shopping
11 Travel
12 On the phone
13 Weather
14 Family
15 At the post office
16 At the bank
17 At the hotel
Answer key to exercises
Grammar reference
Korean-English glossary
English-Korean glossary
Grammar index

✦ Subjects

Korean language