Practical Korean: Your Guide to Speaking Korean Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours (Tuttle Language Library) - Softcover

Martin, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804839034 ISBN 13: 9780804839037

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Initially written for the tourist visiting Korea, "Practical Korean" actually lends itself very well to anyone interested in learning the basics of the language. Most of the lessons include exercises that reinforce vocabulary items and grammatical structures. Phrases and sentences are recycled for long-term learning. Over 200 simple illustrations allow even beginners to express themselves. This "quick" approach to spoken Korean by Samuel E. Martin, author of "Essential Japanese: An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Language", and professor emeritus at Yale University, is the first really useful manual of the Korean language. These lessons have been devised to facilitate easy language study and are conversationally applicable as soon as you learn them. That you learn "Practical Korean" is the author's first intention. This book has been printed in a handy pocket-size format and, with Joan V. Underwood's "English-Korean Dictionary", is indispensable to getting along in Korea.

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About the Author

Samuel E. Martin received his undergraduate degree and master's degree in Oriental languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804839034
• ISBN 13: 9780804839037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96