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r.
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 Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: What is the best Korean Textbook Series? |
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Pound for pound, which Korean Textbook series would you recommend?
I'm looking for something that starts out with absolute newbies going all the way through advanced levels.
A CD listening package that comes with each book would also be great, so I could practice listening.
Preferably something that a teacher could easily use to teach me, but also studied alone. |
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morrisonhotel
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Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| I've been using Ganada KLI's Korean for foreigners. I'm still a little unsure of it, but a few people recommended it to me. |
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Son Deureo!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Pound for pound? Well, they're pretty heavy so they might not be for you but Ross King's Elementary Korean and its sequel Continuing Korean are excellent in my opinion. Some people are put off by their lack of pretty pictures, however.
An excellent free online resource is Sogang University's virtual Korean course at http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/. That does go all the way from beginner to advanced. |
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beNNN
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jiberish
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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I found most Korean textbooks to be rubbish. I sat in kyobo for over an hour looking through them all. Two things I would recommend. Korean made easy. It starts off at newbie level and continues on to around pre-intermediate level. I found it to be the best book to give you a real grasp of the language. Done through lots of fairly good explanations. Also the korean is relevant to speaking now. The first Korean book I ever bought was laughed at by all the Koreans who read it. They said it was overly formal and how their grandparents spoke.
Another option is a website koreanclass101 or something. You just sign up for the 7 day trial and download all the mp3s in that time. They have great real life korean scenarios practice. |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| jiberish wrote: |
| I found most Korean textbooks to be rubbish. I sat in kyobo for over an hour looking through them all. Two things I would recommend. Korean made easy. |
I use this as well as the Sogang books. Korean made easy has much better grammar explanations, but there isn't a companion workbook (that I know of at least) and there are only really short activities in the textbook.
On the other hand, the Sogang textbooks are complete rubbish unless you use them in the classroom setting. However, the workbooks are quite good and have a lot of different activities to do.
If you're really serious about learning I would pair this all with some sort of formal class (even if it's just an hour a week) and if you can find one, some kind of conversation practice (maybe a language exchange?). As someone else mentioned, the books and classes teach you how to speak formally and some kind of conversation practice will definitely help avoid this. |
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orangepostit
Joined: 30 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Personal faves
Sogang - though I agree with the fact that it's not effective unless you're in a class setting. It's very geared towards conversation. The workbook is good.
Korean Made Easy for Beginners - Also pretty good but the activity section is so short. I'm not sure if it continues beyond a beginner level.
Practical Korean (from Seoul National University) - It gives a good overview of grammar, though I hate how it starts with 습니다 rather than 요. The pace is also a bit fast.
And for a non-textbook book, Survival Korean has it's drawbacks but I think is a good overview for basics.
Yonsei is...okay
I think there are a lot of horrid books out there for learning any language, same goes for Korean. Sogang is my main textbook, but I sort of use all of them since then I can better fill in the blanks caused by using one textbook only.
Good luck! |
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lost at sea
Joined: 27 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| I've been using Ganada KLI's Korean for foreigners. I'm still a little unsure of it, but a few people recommended it to me. |
I am using it as well. I like it.
I created vocabulary lists and sentences for the first 4 lessons. You can find them on www.smart.fm
I am making more for each lesson. It helps learn vocabulary quicker.
If you want to use my lists just search for Ganada on there and they should be the only ones that pop up. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| lost at sea wrote: |
I am using it as well. I like it.
I created vocabulary lists and sentences for the first 4 lessons. You can find them on www.smart.fm
I am making more for each lesson. It helps learn vocabulary quicker.
If you want to use my lists just search for Ganada on there and they should be the only ones that pop up. |
I've given up with it. I'm using another textbook plus, for shame, a Korean book aimed at building vocabulary in Korean kids. |
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that guy
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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I like this series.
Last edited by that guy on Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
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Thanks Lost at Sea.
I really like the verb list. |
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