Domain Name Com's Elementary Korean (Tuttle Language Library)

Elementary Korean (Tuttle Language Library)

Domain Name Com's - : Elementary Korean (Tuttle Language Library)

- Unhelpful and outdated.
I bought this book for self study and spent some months using it.

The structure is quite familiar to whom has already been studying languages, various lessons are divided into a text, vocabulary, grammar notes and excercises.

Talking about the general structure, I think the lessons are too long (an average of about 20 pages per lesson) so that it is difficult to study them in small time portions (takes about a week to cover a lesson). Many lessons cover too many structures and grammar points so that the exercise can't focus on all of them.

Anyway I'd like to analyze the lacking points in each section of an average lesson.

The text is always too short, uses structures that are not going to be covered in the same lesson and in my opinion is something the authors barely took care of being generally frustrating to read and unuseful to memorize.

Vocabulary section in each lesson cover a hundred or more words, the most part of wich never appears anywhere else in the lesson making it pointless to remember the as you're not going to see them anywhere else (it's like studying from a dictionary).

Grammar notes are pointlessly complicated (especially when explaining verb endings) and stress futile points (like when to pause when using certain particles) while leaving the important explanations unclear.

About the exercises, they are overwhelmingly numerous yet poor in variety.
They are the kind of exercise you may find in a mid-80s textbook, with lots of meaningless writin to do.

This all adds to odd translations and outdated korean spelling.

I would never reccomend this book for studying Korean.
I know it is one of the few being available in English, however I suggest to buy one of the textbooks that are printed in Korea by one of the many universities that hold korean summer courses.

Rating:

- A friendly textbook
As a basic textbook for students, "Elementary Korean" is detailed and besides offering you also some simple exercises for practice basics, it answers "friendly" to many questions and doubts one can have with regard to Korean language. Though it aims to university level learning (and it is effective), you can consider it almost as a kind of friendly "human" teacher, for its "voice" is really nice.

Rating:

- great resource
Unlike Rosetta Stone software, which costs an arm and a leg and sucks, this resource is a great learning tool. It's very real world and the pacing is slow enough for a new learner. Love it.

Rating:

- recommended by native speakers
I put this book in my "Required" list 'cause my most trusted friend who's Korean recommended it for me. He said it's a very good textbook, up-to-date and well structured. So let's say it was approved by a native speaker, and that's very important.
One thing - it can be a little intimidating for beginners, but don't give up so easily! It's a great textbook so make sure you're making the most of it.

Good luck with your Korean! *^.^*

Rating:

- Great review A.Song
Thank you for your review and the caution!
Yes, learn Hangul...after all, it's not like Hanzi :)

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