Korean Textbooks
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Here are some of the books that I used as reference sources when making
these pages. The comments are my personal opinions. Click on any linked title below
to order the book from
amazon.com.
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Korean
at a Glance
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| Authors: | Daniel D. Holt and Grace Massey Holt |
| Publisher: | Barron's |
| ISBN: |
0-8120-3998-X |
| Comments: |
Excellent phrasebook with lots of cultural information; I really liked
the section about Korean proverbs. |
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You Can Speak Korean
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| Author: | Choonwon Kang |
| Publisher: | Hollym International |
| ISBN: | 1-56591-020-6 |
| Comments: |
A light, well-illustrated, well-organized book. Designed for young adults at the
beginning level. Comes with two tapes, which seemed to have too much "filler" on them.
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Han-kuk-eo
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| Publisher: | Si-sa-yeong-eo-sa |
| ISBN: | 89-17-24101-8 |
| Comments: |
This book is divided into many short lessons with only one or two grammar points
each; I never felt overwhelmed.
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Korean
through English (vol 1)
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| Author: | Sang-Oak Lee,Language Research Institute of
Seoul National University |
| Publisher: | Hollym International |
| ISBN: |
1-56591-015-X |
| Comments: |
Another excellent introductory book. Contains a guide to how to write the letters;
one of the few textbooks I've found so far which does. The whole set consists of
three volumes, and audio tapes are available.
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College
Korean
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| Authors: | Michael C. Rogers, Clare You, and Kyungnyun K.
Richards |
| Publisher: | University of California Press, Berkeley |
| ISBN: |
0-520-06994-3 |
| Comments: |
College-level textbook oriented towards and American audience. Seems to have
been written by folks with a strong linguistic background. Well laid out; contains
some introduction to the Chinese-derived characters.
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Myongdo's Korean
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| Authors: | A.V. Vandesande and Yunsook Hong |
| Publisher: | U-Shin Sa Publishing Co., Seoul |
| ISBN: | 989-7131-052-9 |
| Comments: |
A very intense textbook with terse but detailed explanations of grammar. The graphic
layout of the material is unappealing at best.
Also contains pages on how to write
the letters.
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The single most frustrating part of all these books (except the phrasebook): they
contain a Korean-English glossary but have no English-Korean glossary.
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