Korean Verb Reference

keelsoo · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: Korean Verb Reference

Can anyone recommend to me a Korean verb reference book? For example, if any of you have studied one of the romance languages, such as French or Spanish, you probably have seen the books such as "501 French Verbs" or "501 Spanish Verbs". These are reference books containing many verbs, fully conjugated in all tenses.

I want a similar book for Korean verbs. I found one on Amazon, called "201 Korean Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All Aspects, Moods, Tenses, And Formality Levels" by Seok Choong Song. Problem is, this book is entirely in romanization according to the reviews, and therefore in my opinion is completely useless (apologies to any romanization fans).

Can someone tell me if there is a similar book using hangul? I would prefer a book aimed at the english-speaking korean language student, but even an entirely korean reference book would be better than nothing (for example, my english-korean/korean-english dictionary is written for korean speaker, because i bought it in korea, but I still find it very useful).

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oleo · Learn Korean Regular Joined: Jan 17, 2006 Posts: 405

I am familiar with that series of books, and also affirm that the romanizations they use are evil. I don't know why so many publishers insist on using representations that make it impossible to use the material when writing a language in its own native script.

I can't think of any books. I can think of some good resources for Japanese, but searching around there for Korean, I come up empty-handed for some reason.

The only thing that might be of help is Verbix. I'll tell you straight up that it is limited, and although it claims to support Korean, it gives no indication as to whether it is romanized or not. It also has a number of shortcomings, such as being proprietary and Windows-only. However, there is a Windows freeware version (registration required) to determine whether or not it actually works as intended.

My other recommendation is electronic dictionaries. Once again, I don't know what they mean when they say "verb conjugator" included, because oftentimes features like that only apply to English. Most electronic dictionaries for Asian languages are oriented towards native speakers of those languages, not English. In any case, if you're in Korea, you might be able to find some demo units. It's a worthwhile investment, in my opinion.
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keelsoo · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

oleo:

Thanks for the tips. I was looking for a book, but of course if we can locate something electronic for the PC it would be useful. I have not received any good recommendations for an electronic KE<->EK dictionary, and would welcome any advice. I have some program that one of my Korean friends gave me last month, but we haven't installed it yet. It has a feature to translate any word i put the cursor on (well, at least it did that on HIS computer).

I'll keep looking...

Thanks

JDK · Tourist Joined: May 03, 2005 Posts: 19

I've been looking for a verb reference book myself. Since I've been unable to find one, I've slowly been making my own list. It's far from complete, but it might be useful.

http://www.geocities.com/imperial_ubiqtorate/verbs.html

iamgravity · Beginner Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Posts: 8

Although it doesn't have a huge list of verbs, it teaches you the solid rules of conjugation and provides tons of examples. it's called Korean Grammar for international Learners (한국어문법) Here's a link:
http://www.hanbooks.com/korgramforin.html

Note: it doesn't have romanization, so it's for real men! hehe. I highly recommend it!

xacedia1 · Beginner Joined: Nov 25, 2007 Posts: 2