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[tesseract]

I need to find a good dictionary that I can start using now to help me learn the language. Pickings are very slim here. The only dictionary I have been able to find recently was entirely in English which I think is pretty useless. I want to learn to read Korean also. I would love to have one of the electronic ones that one of my Korean language partners has, but I can't afford to spend the money right now. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good paperback dictionary that I could find in a store here or order online?

[Son Deureo!]

www.amazon.com has a pretty wide assortment if you type "korean dictionary" into their search feature, but I've been using an electronic dictionary for a long time so I can't recommend a specific line of paperback dictionaries.

Yahoo! Korea also has a decent online dictionary at [url]kr.dic.yahoo.com[/url]. Just type the word you want to know in the top field (통합사전) or the first one down on the left (영어사전).

[Atassi]

For the electronic dictionary, wait until you get here. You'll need a cell phone, and the ones here with dictionaries in them are cheap now. My Samsung (anycall) phone has a half million words in it, and the price dropped like 80% from when I bought it.

For a paperback, just go to Amazon. Some phrasebooks are also handy.

[kat2]

lifeinkorea.com has a decent, not great, phrase book. You really don't need a lot of koean when you come. Learn hello, thanks, goodbye. you'll be fine for the first little bit.

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm

[mytime]

You can download the free trial version of this here:
http://www.declan-software.com/korean/screenshots_dkdict.htm

Its quite fun and helpful

And this for some basic words:
http://iteslj.org/v/k/

And this page is very helpful to start with:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm