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Learn Basic Korean
Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Our competitors like Rosetta Stone would like you to believe learning a language is easy and fun. We think they are being dishonest. The truth about learning a language is it takes time. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. Your investment in a language course is your time. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. There are no short cuts. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. Our courses are the most comprehensive self instructional language material available on the market.
The Korean Basic Volume I contains Units 1 through 18 and comes with 18 CD's and a 559 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook on a PDF file.
The Korean Basic Volume II contains Units 19 - 47 and comes with 15 CD's and a 568 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook on a PDF file.
The Korean Basic Combo contains Units 1-47 and comes with 33 CD's and two textbooks or 2 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbooks on PDF files.
This is the first of two volumes designed to teach spoken Korean to English speakers. The Korean presented in this book is representative of the 'standard' speech of educated Koreans in Seoul, which has been the capital city and cUltural, educational and political center of the country for over five hundred years. In Korea, as in every other nation, there is considerable local variation in pronunciation and vocabulary as well as in styles of speech. However, in schools allover Korea the language presented here is used and taught as the national standard and, if you learn it well, you will be speaking a form of Korean which has prestige throughout the country and which will be understood everywhere.
Acquiring proficiency in the use of language is like acquiring proficiency in any other skill, for example, driving an automobile-- you must practice until the mechanics of driVing - or speaking - are reflex. It is the aim of this course, therefore, to bring students to 'automacity' in speaking and understanding everyday Korean.
Each unit in Korean Basic Course Volume 1 (Units 1-18) consists of four major parts: Basic Dialogues or other 'basic sentences 1 , Notes on Dialogues, Grammar Notes, Drills and Exercises.
Unit 1 - Greetings
Unit 2 - Finding One's way around
Unit 3 - Finding One's way around
Unit 4 - Shopping
Unit 5 - Shopping
Unit 6 - Telling Time
Unit 7 - Telling Time
Unit 8 - Talking about one's work
Unit 9 - Going to the movies
Unit 10 - Going around the town
Unit 11 - Going around the town
Unit 12 - Eating and drinking
Unit 13 - Eating and drinking
Unit 14 - Talking about one's life and family
Unit 15 - Talking about one's life and family
Unit 16 - Telephoning
Unit 17 - Telephoning
Unit 18 - Talking about the weather
Unit 19 - At Seoul Station
Unit 20 - At Seoul Station
Unit 21 - At the ticke window
Unit 22 - On the train
Unit 23 - At Taejon Inn
Unit 24 - At Taejon Inn
Unit 25 - Room service
Unit 26 - Giving errands to the Inn Maid
Unit 27 - Reading Signs
Unit 28 - Reading Signs
Unit 29 - Going Out for a Drive
Unit 30 - At the service station
Unit 31 - Haircut
Unit 32 - Visiting the Patient at the Hospital
Unit 33 - Visiting the Patient at the Hospital
Unit 34 - Invitation
Unit 35 - Invitation
Unit 36 - Invitation
Unit 37 - Educational System
Unit 38 - Educational System
Unit 39 - Discussing One's Occupation
Unit 40 - Discussing One's Occupation
Unit 41 - Going out on the countryside
Unit 42 - Going out on the countryside
Unit 43 - Society and Social Life
Unit 44 - Society and Social Life
Unit 45 - Military Service
Unit 46 - Military Service
Unit 47 - Government and Politics
