Korean For Dummies

The fun and easy way to start speaking Korean
There are 42 million native Korean speakers, including more than 1 million in the U.S., and knowledge of Korean is increasingly in demand due to South Korea's growing economic influence and North Korea's continuing international security issues. This fun and easy guide helps people pick up basic skills in this challenging language. Complete with a CD featuring sample dialogues in MP3 format, it covers grammar, numbers, greetings and introductions, small talk, phone conversations, eating and drinking, money, transportation, directions, shopping, recreation, and emergencies.
Jungwook Hong (Charlottesville, VA) created a Korean language program and taught beginning-level Korean at the University of Virginia, where he also helped found the Korean Studies Organization. He has worked as an interpreter at international business conferences.

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Title of ebook: Korean For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470407943
parent-ISBN: 9780470037188
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 4032 kb
Pages: 384
Published: 08-2008
Released online for download: 08-06-2008
Author of eBook: Hong, Jungwook
Joint Author: Lee, Wang

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Chapter One

Getting Down the Basics

In This Chapter

* Sounding off with Korean phonetics

* Pronouncing the basic vowels and consonants

* Working on sounding fluent

* Practicing some Korean phrases

* Using Korean gestures

Surprising a woneomin (won-uh-min; native speaker) of Korea by perfectly pronouncing a mungu (moon-goo; phrase or a munjang (moon-jang; sentence) of their language can be jaemi (jae-mee; fun). And the purpose of this chapter is to help you do exactly that. Here you will learn how to pronounce Korean and get a hang of a few common haengdong (hang-dong; gestures). It shouldn't take long for you to begin fooling your Korean chingudeul (chingoo-deul; friends) into thinking that you've secretly been spending time mastering the language.

Like unjeon (oon-jun; driving), riding a jajeongeo (ja-juhn-guh; bike) or tightrope geotgi (gut-gee; walking), the only way to get better at pronouncing Korean is by practicing. And the only ... read full excerpt from Korean For Dummies ebook

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