Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)
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This concise Korean language book is organized into 46 easy lessons that help you grasp everything from names and greetings to casual remarks. It is designed for English speakers traveling to Korea, although it can be used by anyone wishing to learn Korean and acquire a basic working knowledge of conversational Korean in a short period.
Engagingly illustrated with manga-style drawings, this volume includes:
- A basic pronunciation guide
- Essential vocabulary and practical sentences
- Information on Korean sentence patterns and critical grammar points
- A 3,000-word Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean dictionary
- Native speaker audio recordings to aid pronunciation
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Practical Korean - Samuel E. Martin
PRACTICAL
Korean
Speak Korean
Quickly and Effortlessly
Samuel E. Martin
Revised & Updated by
Laura Kingdon
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Contents
About This Revised Edition
Introduction
Lesson 1: Vowels
Lesson 2: Consonants
Lesson 3: Sound Changes
Lesson 4: Names and Greetings
Lesson 5: Sentence Structure
Lesson 6: Some Useful Expressions
Lesson 7: More Useful Expressions
Lesson 8: Is
and Has
Lesson 9: Styles of Speech
Lesson 10: Some Handy Nouns
Lesson 11: More Handy Nouns
Lesson 12: Particles
Lesson 13: More Particles
Lesson 14: Some Tricky Particles
Lesson 15: Numerals
Lesson 16: Nouns Ending in -t
Lesson 17: Counting Things
Lesson 18: Telling Time
Lesson 19: What Day Is It?
Lesson 20: Months and Years
Lesson 21: Negative Sentences
Lesson 22: Where Things Are
Lesson 23: Verbs and Adjectives
Lesson 24: Relatives
Lesson 25: Honorifics
Lesson 26: The Word But
Lesson 27: Infinitives and Favors
Lesson 28: Expressing May
and Must
Lesson 29: Helping Verbs
Lesson 30: The -go Verb Form
Lesson 31: Wants and Likes
Lesson 32: Infinitive + seo = And So
Lesson 33: Some Peculiar Verb Types
Lesson 34: The Modifiers -eun and -n
Lesson 35: The Verb Modifier -neun
Lesson 36: Ever,
Never
and Sometimes
Lesson 37: Before,
After
and While
Lesson 38: In the Future
Lesson 39: Knows
and Can
Lesson 40: When
and If
Lesson 41: Hoping and Wishing
Lesson 42: What the Weather Looks Like
Lesson 43: Because
Lesson 44: Casual Remarks Using -jiyo
Lesson 45: Some Abbreviations
Lesson 46: The Structure of Verb Forms
Romanization Table
English-Korean Dictionary
About This Revised Edition
Samuel E. Martin’s guide to learning Korean has firmly stood the test of time, as thousands of beginning learners continue to attest; his book has remained continuously in print since its original release in 1954.
It’s an extremely useful, compact guide that’s especially aimed at tourists and visitors to Korea, and with more people now visiting Korea than ever before, we hope this new revised edition will be greeted with enthusiasm.
This revised edition reflects several improvements, and some of the examples and phrases have been updated to reflect current usage. Korean text (Hangeul) is included throughout, and the romanization system follows the Korean government’s most recent method.
Two sets of native-speaker recordings for all Korean words and sentences are included in the disc (each word/sentence is read twice)—these enable the reader to have an idea of how different people pronounce the same words. The audios are grouped by lessons.
We hope that Practical Korean helps you to succeed with the Korean language, just as it’s helped many others.
Introduction
THIS BOOK has been written to fill a specific need: that of the hundreds of thousands of people now visiting Korea for business or holidays, or even living there for a year or two, who wish to learn something of the language spoken around them. The structure of Korean is peculiarly complex, and difficulties plague the foreign student from the very beginning. I have attempted to simplify some of the common problems and to acquaint the reader with the most useful way to say a lot of everyday things, without having to memorize long lists of grammatical rules.
The sentences are almost all given in the Polite (yo) style, which is both the simplest and the most widely useful. From this style, another common style—the Intimate style—is easily derived simply by dropping the final particle. Koreans who look at the book will miss the Formal (-seumnida) style which they feel more appropriate to use with foreigners on first acquaintance. My purpose in sticking to one style is to provide the reader with the means to say a great many different things, rather than teach him or her a great many ways to say the same thing. From an academic point of view, this approach has certain drawbacks. From a practical point of view, however, it is the quickest and simplest way to put the foreigner into direct communication with Koreans, and that is the aim of this book.
The material is presented using the romanization method that is officially authorized by the Korean government. The equivalents in other romanization systems are given in the table at the very end of this book.
The reader who plans to go on with his or her study of Korean beyond the material contained in this book will probably find it advisable to do so in the native script (Hangeul). For a scientific description of the structure of Korean, the reader is referred to the author’s other publications, Korean Phonemics and Korean Morphophonemics.
I hope that the material contained in this book—while perhaps oversimplifying a complicated language—will be of some immediate, practical use to the reader who wants to learn some Korean. And I hope some of those who learn Korean in a hurry will find such an interest in the language and the people who speak it that they will someday spare the time and patience needed to master the language more in depth.
SAMUEL E. MARTIN
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LESSON 1
Vowels
The vowels and combinations of y or w with a vowel are pronounced somewhat as follows:
You will note that letters in Korean are not written independently as in English but rather are connected in syllables. Each syllable is read left-right and up-down, and some are only left-right while some are only up-down and some are both. Here are some examples:
Left-right: ㅇ (place marker) + ㅏ (a) = 아 (a)
ㄴ (n) + ㅓ (eo) = 너 neo
Up-down: ㄱ (g) + ㅗ (o) = 고 (go)
ㅇ (place marker) + ㅜ (u) + ㄹ (l) = 울 ul
Both: ㄴ (n) + ㅐ (ae) + ㅁ (m) = 냄 naem
ㅈ (j) + ㅣ (i) + ㄱ (k) = 직 jik
Here are some common words to practice the vowels on: