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taobenli
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject: Hanja |
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I got some good feedback recently from people on this board about dictionaries and other language-learning materials, and I'm going to buy the Minjung Pocket Dictionary and probably the English-Korean Practical conversation dictionary as well. I was also looking at a Minjung dictionary on Hanbooks.com which is a "Hanja-Korean-Chinese-Japanese-English" dictionary. I think it might be good for me because I have studied Japanese and Mandarin, and don't want to carry Japanese or Chinese dictionaries around with me, but I hear words in Korean class that are very close to another Asian language and think "What is that character, where did the word come from?" (I miss kanji/hanzi!)
Does anyone have this dictionary? Anyone ordered from Hanbooks and liked/disliked them? What are the deal with hanja, anyway? Do Koreans use them less and less? How many hanja do well-educated Koreans tend to know?
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the saint

Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Location: not there yet...
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:55 am Post subject: |
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No but I can tell what you what I do have and, as a speaker/reader of Japanese can vouch for its usefulness:
Handbook of Korean Vocabulary by Choo and O'Grady.
I got it off Amazon.com.
Basically it lists Korean words by hanja grouping together all words that derive from a particular character so that, say, under �� we have
���� middle age
������ under construction
���� second hand
As you can see, the key hanja doesn't have to lead the compound - just be in it somewhere.
I used this dictionary today to confound one of my own Korean students who didn't know the hanja for second hand which, as I know Japanese, are second nature to me and help me pick up Korean compound vocab very fast indeed.
It's not a pocket book but a very very useful reference to help you build vocab logically and fast. |
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taobenli
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, the saint-
I'll look into that book!
taobenli |
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