PRACTICAL
Korean
Speak Korean
Quickly and Effortlessly
Samuel E. Martin
Revised & Updated by
Laura Kingdon
TUTTLE Publishing
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Contents
About This Revised Edition
Introduction
Lesson 1: Vowels
Lesson 2: Consonants
Lesson 3: Sound Changes
Lesson 4: Names and Greetings
Lesson 5: Sentence Structure
Lesson 6: Some Useful Expressions
Lesson 7: More Useful Expressions
Lesson 8: “Is” and “Has”
Lesson 9: Styles of Speech
Lesson 10: Some Handy Nouns
Lesson 11: More Handy Nouns
Lesson 12: Particles
Lesson 13: More Particles
Lesson 14: Some Tricky Particles
Lesson 15: Numerals
Lesson 16: Nouns Ending in -t
Lesson 17: Counting Things
Lesson 18: Telling Time
Lesson 19: What Day Is It?
Lesson 20: Months and Years
Lesson 21: Negative Sentences
Lesson 22: Where Things Are
Lesson 23: Verbs and Adjectives
Lesson 24: Relatives
Lesson 25: Honorifics
Lesson 26: The Word “But”
Lesson 27: Infinitives and Favors
Lesson 28: Expressing “May” and “Must”
Lesson 29: Helping Verbs
Lesson 30: The -go Verb Form
Lesson 31: Wants and Likes
Lesson 32: Infinitive + seo = “And So”
Lesson 33: Some Peculiar Verb Types
Lesson 34: The Modifiers -eun and -n
Lesson 35: The Verb Modifier -neun
Lesson 36: “Ever,” “Never” and “Sometimes”
Lesson 37: “Before,” “After” and “While”
Lesson 38: In the Future
Lesson 39: “Knows” and “Can”
Lesson 40: “When” and “If”
Lesson 41: Hoping and Wishing
Lesson 42: What the Weather Looks Like
Lesson 43: “Because”
Lesson 44: Casual Remarks Using -jiyo
Lesson 45: Some Abbreviations
Lesson 46: The Structure of Verb Forms
Romanization Table
English-Korean Dictionary
About This Revised Edition
Samuel E. Martin’s guide to learning Korean has firmly stood the test of time, as thousands of beginning learners continue to attest; his book has remained continuously in print since its original release in 1954.
It’s an extremely useful, compact guide that’s especially aimed at tourists and visitors to Korea, and with more people now visiting Korea than ever before, we hope this new