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Instant Korean: How to express 1,000 different ideas with just 100 key words and phrases! [Paperback]

Boye Lafayette De Mente (Author)
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Publication Date: Nov 15 2004 | Series: Instant Phrasebook Series
It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!

This book provides you with the words you'll hear again and again-simple terms used every day in restaurants, subways and other public places. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be surprised how quickly and fluently you can communicate in Korean. Whether you plan to meet new people, shop, order food and drinks, or ask directions, you'll learn how to do it using Instant Korean.

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About the Author

Boyé Lafayette De Mente is the author of more than 30 books on Japan, Korea and China, including Instant Japanese and Korean Business Etiquette.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Huge disappointment Aug 4 2005
By The Teenage Linguist - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I am an intermediate Japanese student. When I was a beginner, I bought the Japanese version of this book (Instant Japanese), and it was excellent. It was the best beginner's book and introduction to Japanese that I have ever seen, and very organized. When people tell me they want to begin learning Japanese, I tell them to get that book (or I lend them one if I have a copy of it). Anyway, I have have wanted to start learning Korean for a while, but most of the books I've looked at are no good. When I found out about a Korean version of Instant Japanese, I was really glad and I thought "okay, I'll just wait until this one comes out. All my problems are solved." I waited with high hopes. Well, when it finally came, my hopes here shot. I couldn't believe how sloppy a job the book was! The book was not very organized. There wasn't much explanation of grammar; just a lot of phrases slapped together in sections. On top of all that, it was full of spelling errors (of the Korean words).

No disrespect to Mr. DeMente--he has written good books--but I had expected much better from him.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Useful pocket book for revision Oct 6 2006
By Iain R. Mcnab - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I didn't expect too much from this book, having seen other bad reviews. I paid $10.00 for my copy. For me the main advantage is the books small size , which makes it useful to leave in my pocket and use to revise basic korean expressions from time to time (while waiting for street cars, for example).

The subtitle, "How to express 1,000 different ideas with just 100 key words and phrases!" is just misdirection. The book is organised into 100 sections, each of which contains at least 5 or six PHRASES and additionally vocabulary with some 10 to 20 words to learn. I made that well over 1,000 words and phrases with which to express around 1,000 ideas.

There is no organisation in this book that would help anyone to begine learning Korean, but as an "additional resource" it is useful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Too many spelling and misinterpretations! Jun 3 2011
By Justin Elliott - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
There are way too many misspellings in this book for it to be useful. The romanized spelling for pronunciation will have the reader speaking incorrectly but even if you know how to read hangeul then this will still not help because many, many of the words are misspelled in hangeul too! It's like they typed up this book very quickly and didn't bother to edit it (or even read it for that matter). Some Korean sentences given in the book combine formal and informal speech in a way that would sound very rude to a native Korean so be careful! One sentence is translated as "I don't understand Korean" but actually means "I speak a little (or some) Korean." That could be a confusing situation until the Korean you're talking to figures out that you don't really speak Korean! I think everyone would be better off if they just spent a couple of dollars more and bought a secondhand grammar book that has recordings with dialogs.

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