Binding: Paperback
Description: Advanced Korean offers a complete systematic and streamlined third - year course in Korean. It is ideal for university students and adult learners with plentiful reading texts and written exercises all in Korean Hangul. Concise Korean grammar notes in English extensive glossaries and an answer key make this book suitable for those studying alone as well as for classroom use. There are 20 comprehensive lessons each with a reading text in which new language is introduced in context followed by vocabulary grammar points and exercises. Lessons 5, 10, 15 and 20 are short reviews of the key structural patterns introduced. The focus is on written Korean but the reading texts are not academic they are breezy chatty and amusing with illustrations. The textbook comes with a free CD - ROM entitled Sino - Korean Companion a supplement for those learners wishing to commence the study of Chinese characters as they are used in the Korean language. The 20 lessons on the CD - ROM build on the content of the lessons in the main textbook to introduce 500 Chinese characters in their Sino - Korean readings. The emphasis is on giving students the tools they need to decipher unfamiliar Chinese characters on their own and also on Sino - Korean vocabulary acquisition. Each lesson introduces approximately 25 - 30 new Chinese characters along with related vocabulary items and builds on previous characters and vocabulary introduced demonstrating the cumulative effect on one's vocabulary of paying systematic attention to Sino - Korean.
Title: Advanced Korean Includes Downloadable Sino - Korean Companion Workbook
Author(s): Baker Donald Ph. D.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Barcode: 9780804842495
Pages: 352 Pages, Includes Online Workbook; B&W Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/7/2015
Category: Language Learning: Audio-Visual & Multimedia