Korean Complete Course: With Book: Amazon.ca: Mark Vincent, Jaehoon Yeon: Books

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This cassette contains 70 minutes of listening material and accompanies the book "Teach Yourself Korean". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Mark Vincent studied Korean Language and Linguistics at SOAS. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The romanization was helpful., Jun 8 2004

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B. Ang (San Jose, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Korean Complete Course Package (Book + 2 CDs) (Paperback)

I would recommend this book to most beginners. It helps you learn how to speak Korean, but this book alone is not enough. It would still be difficult to understand native Korean speakers. There are not enough excercises to really master the language. I am able to order at a restaurant, and tell Koreans that I can speak a little, but I can't understand everything. In most cases, the Korean conversation ends right there, and we go back to speaking English.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Jun 17 2001

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Trinh (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Korean Complete Course: With Book (Audio Cassette)

Teach Yourself Korean, in my opinion, is really a great book for beginners. The tape was also good even though some conversational parts were a bit fast to learn. They included romanization for beginners because they wanted you to read in hangul text and then look at the romanization to see if you are beginning to improve on how to read hangul. After reading this book, move on to "College Korean" and "Elementary Korean."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book! but it could have used some work, Jun 20 2003

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Josh (Broomfield, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Korean Complete Course Package (Book + 2 CDs) (Paperback)

Teach Yourself Korean is a great book if you want to learn more than just "tourist phrases." The introduction with Han-Geul was clear and easy to understand. If your first language is English, the grammar and pronunciation rules will seem strange and hard to remember at first, but this is true for most Asian languages. Since Korean is not a tonal language, such as Chinese or Vietnamese, your learning will not be hindered by worries about "singing" the words. Each section includes an introduction listing the aspects of the Korean language you will learn. The dialogues in each section aren't dry either. They contain many colloquial Korean phrases and expressions that are explained later in the chapter. The dialogues are shown in Han-Geul and are followed by McCune-Reischauer romanisations. The romanisations were one of the aspects of the book that could have been improved. Sometimes they were inconsistent with the Han-Geul and left me wondering which pronunciations were correct. The vocabulary boxes were extremely helpful, but since the words were not translated directly under the Han-Geul dialogues, I had to keep flipping pages to understand what I was reading. This ruined the flow of the conversations a little bit. The commentary was the core of the book. It explained aspects of Korean culture and taught me how to construct Korean sentences. Although the authors attempt to keep the explanations simple, some of the grammar commentary sections needed to be read and re-read in order to absorb the information. The upside of this is that repitition reinforces memory. The exercises are varied and cover a wide range of problems. The book recommends that one completes the exercises using Han-Geul, but beginners can use romanistation as well. Some of the answer keys in the back of the book provided answers that seemed strange, and this was a major hindrance for me. I would re-read the grammar commentary to see if I had missed anything, only to find out that we would learn a certain verb-construction or colloquialism in later sections. All in all, this was a great book, but it needs some polishing.

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2.0 out of 5 stars awkward expressions (cassette tapes)
The topics of the chapters are not really fit for non-native speakers of Korean. There are many awkward expressions and unrealistic situations for non-native speakers to learn.

Published on Jun 19 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended and useful
Of the 4 or 5 books I have on the Korean language, this is the best. This book goes beyond simple travel phrases, etc. and teaches you to build some basic sentences quickly. Read more

Published on Feb 5 2001