“Power Up Korean Vocabulary” is full of essential information that beginning to intermediate level students must know. This book kindly points out important lexical, grammatical, and cultural information of the words along with helpful warnings against common mistakes by Korean learners. Students are expected to expand their vocabulary easily and in an interesting way while practicing 25 lessons.
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.
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.
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.
Learn your first 500 Korean words and thousands of related words and expressions that you can start using right away in your everyday conversations in Korean!
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Korean vocabulary book + Korean dictionary This Korean vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of the book provides you with a basic Korean-English as well as English-Korean dictionary which makes this a great resource for learners of all levels. What you can expect from this book: This Korean learning resource is a combination of Korean vocabulary book and a two-way basic Korean dictionary: Part 1 - Topic based Korean vocabulary book: This is the main part of the book and represents a list of chapters each containing Korean vocabularies for a certain topic. The Korean vocabularies in the chapters are unsorted on purpose to separate remembering them from a defined alphabetical order. You can start at any chapter and dive directly into the topics that interest you the most. Part 2 - Basic English-Korean dictionary: The index in the second half of the book can be used as a basic Korean dictionary to look up words you have learned but can't remember or learn new words you need. Part 3 - Basic Korean-English dictionary: Easy to use and with just the right amount of words, this third part finishes off with a second index that allows you to look for Korean words and directly find the English translation How to use this Korean vocabulary book: Not sure where to start? We suggest you first work your way through the verbs, adjectives and phrases chapters in part one of the book. This will give you a great base for further studying and already enough vocabulary for basic communication. The Korean dictionaries in part two and three can be used whenever needed to look up words you hear on the street, English words you want to know the Korean translation for or simply to learn some new words. Some final thoughts: Vocabulary books have been around for centuries and as with so many things that have been around for some time, they are not very fashionable and a bit boring, but they usually work very well. Together with the basic Korean dictionary parts, this vocabulary book is a great resource to support you throughout the process of learning Korean and comes in particularly handy at times when there is no internet to look up words and phrases.
Everything needed to learn to read, write, speak, and understand the essential and most useful words in the Korean language is in this handy set of flash cards--including many hundreds of phrases and sentences using them. The cards in this volume are a great way to learn Korean and contain the most common words and expressions used in daily Korean communication--concrete nouns as well as verbs and adjectives that form the core Korean vocabulary. These are grouped thematically to enable easy memorization and retention. A sample sentence is given to illustrate the use of the primary word on each card which is often a well-known Korean saying or an idiom. Key features of Korean Flash Cards include: 200 flash cards Over 1,000 Korean words and sentences All of the most commonly used words Downloadable native-speaker audio recordings Sample sentences in Korean A 32-page booklet with sorting indexes and practice tips The FRONT of each card contains: Main vocabulary word Four related words and phrases to help you use it. The BACK of each card contains: Main word Related words' English meanings Korean script (hangul) Romanizations. A sample sentence in Korean with romanization and English translation.
Korean vocabulary book + Korean dictionary This Korean vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of the book provides you with a basic Korean-English as well as English-Korean dictionary which makes this a great resource for learners of all levels. What you can expect from this book: This Korean learning resource is a combination of Korean vocabulary book and a two-way basic Korean dictionary: Part 1 - Topic based Korean vocabulary book: This is the main part of the book and represents a list of chapters each containing Korean vocabularies for a certain topic. The Korean vocabularies in the chapters are unsorted on purpose to separate remembering them from a defined alphabetical order. You can start at any chapter and dive directly into the topics that interest you the most. Part 2 - Basic English-Korean dictionary: The index in the second half of the book can be used as a basic Korean dictionary to look up words you have learned but can't remember or learn new words you need. Part 3 - Basic Korean-English dictionary: Easy to use and with just the right amount of words, this third part finishes off with a second index that allows you to look for Korean words and directly find the English translation How to use this Korean vocabulary book: Not sure where to start? We suggest you first work your way through the verbs, adjectives and phrases chapters in part one of the book. This will give you a great base for further studying and already enough vocabulary for basic communication. The Korean dictionaries in part two and three can be used whenever needed to look up words you hear on the street, English words you want to know the Korean translation for or simply to learn some new words. Some final thoughts: Vocabulary books have been around for centuries and as with so many things that have been around for some time, they are not very fashionable and a bit boring, but they usually work very well. Together with the basic Korean dictionary parts, this vocabulary book is a great resource to support you throughout the process of learning Korean and comes in particularly handy at times when there is no internet to look up words and phrases.
