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    Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)
    Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)
    Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)
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    Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)

    By Samuel E. Martin

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    Designed for beginning Korean learners, Practical Korean gives you only what you need--including an essential pronunciation guide and key grammar points.

    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
    Even readers without any prior knowledge of Korean will grasp the necessary basics to get conversing and communicating in Korean fast and painlessly!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781462919529
    Practical Korean: Speak Korean Quickly and Effortlessly (Revised with Audio Recordings & Dictionary)

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      Practical Korean - Samuel E. Martin

      PRACTICAL

      Korean

      Speak Korean

      Quickly and Effortlessly

      Samuel E. Martin

      Revised & Updated by

      Laura Kingdon
      TUTTLE Publishing

      Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore

      ABOUT TUTTLE

      Books to Span the East and West

      Our core mission at Tuttle Publishing is to create books which bring people together one page at a time. Tuttle was founded in 1832 in the small New England town of Rutland, Vermont (USA). Our fundamental values remain as strong today as they were then—to publish best-in-class books informing the English-speaking world about the countries and peoples of Asia. The world has become a smaller place today and Asia’s economic, cultural and political influence has expanded, yet the need for meaningful dialogue and information about this diverse region has never been greater. Since 1948, Tuttle has been a leader in publishing books on the cultures, arts, cuisines, languages and literatures of Asia. Our authors and photographers have won numerous awards and Tuttle has published thousands of books on subjects ranging from martial arts to paper crafts. We welcome you to explore the wealth of information available on Asia at www.tuttlepublishing.com.

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

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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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      2. Type the URL below into your web browser. http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/practical-korean-downloadable-cd-content

      For support email us at info@tuttlepublishing.com.

      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:

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