ONE good Korean book

taekwondo4ever · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:59 am Post subject: ONE good Korean book

If there was one book on Korean that you could get, what would it be? I want to become fluent in the language, and tommorow I will try to get a book. What do you reccomend? Thanks.

plipgirl · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

I say Survival Korean by Stephen Revere. It focuses on foreign learners. Instead of teaching the rules first, it teaches you the language and then the rules as one Korean child would. He hears it first then studies the rules in school.

It also teaches the polite form which is the commonly used form in South Korea. Some books teach the formal form which is rarely used nowadays. This book also includes information about Korean culture so you wouldn't get that much culture shock. ^^

The author of this book is Stephen Revere who is also the host of Arirang's Let's Speak Korean.