Practical Korean: Your Guide to Speaking Korean Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours - Softcover

Martin, Samuel E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804843449 ISBN 13: 9780804843447

Verlag: TUTTLE PUB, 2013

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A handy introduction to the Korean language that is concise, simple, and useful.

Much more than a Korean phrasebook, Practical Korean has been written to fill a specific need: that of the hundreds of thousands of people now visiting Korea for business, studies or holidays who wish to learn something of the Korean language around them. The grammatical structure of Korean is particularly complicated, and difficulties plague foreign students learning Korean. Samuel E. Martin, renowned Asian language expert and professor emeritus at Yale University has simplified some of the common problems 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 compact size makes it ideal for traveling to Korea or reading on a plane, train or bus.

The sentences are almost all given in the polite (yo) style, which is both the simplest and the most widely used. From this manner, another common style—the Intimate style—is easily derived by merely dropping the final particle. From a practical point of view, this is the quickest and simplest way to put a foreigner into direct communication with Koreans, including the use of a Korean phrasebook. The student will quickly make progress learning to comprehend and speak Korean. The material is presented using the romanization method of written Korean that is officially authorized by the Korean government as well as the native Korean script (Hangeul). Practical Korean is grouped into 47 lessons that cover all the common topics of conversation, grammar and vocabulary.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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, including the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean.

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, including the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TUTTLE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804843449
• ISBN 13: 9780804843447
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Kim Jinny
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