Korean Grammar for Beginners: A Complete Textbook and Workbook to Learn How to Read, Listen, and Write in Korean

I am still in Lesson 4 but already experienced significant number of errors, both in the book and in the audio: wrong spelling (character), missing characters, or a sentence is missing in audio but present in the book. I tried to ignore the errors during the first 3 lessons but still keep getting them. I tried to give the feedback to the author directly by visiting the website provided at the end of the book, but I couldn’t reach it. Is it a legit site? So I came in the review section instead.

In big plus is the audio and many exercises! Very very helpful. That's exactly what the other books are often lacking. How the book works on the all, clear layout, rather simple explanations, is generally really good 👍🏻 The book helps to ground what you've learnt before, but I don't think it's the best book for a self learner who has just started. It's good as a recap more than the absolute beginner to learn from, as a first book. What irritates it's the lack of proper correction before it was put to print. Quite a few typo's! 😞 Even with my minimal knowledge I was able to catch the mistakes in the key. Also (self learning absolute beginner here) I don't understand the frequently used form of - 다, infinitive form in sentences 🤔 is it correct or is unnatural and not entirely correct but is suppose to help a beginner learner? I don't know. What's more - instead of keep practising the tenses throughout the book, chapter introducing the tenses is at the beginning of the book (more less), the authors keep using this strange form, which is NOWHERE explained!!! What an opportunity missed for practising tenses!!! No teacher would do that! Not a good one, anyway. But modals verbs, all of them, are irritainigly used all the time, everywhere although nobody bothered to introduced them as a topic and explained how they work 🙄🤔 Put your hands together for the professionalism of the authors... 😒 Just to make your learning easier, beginner learner... 😒 And mistakes (?) in the teaching material, on two pages explained how we use native korean number for counting people and then to illustrate it examples of sentences when sino korean numbers are used to count people... 🤯 Sometimes there are things in the exercise section that haven't been taught at all! It's not bad at the beginning, at least up to the first 1/3 of the book, more less. But then.... 😤🤦🏻 While the explanations are mostly OK, in the exercises section, sentences tend to jump to a higher level. It is supposedly a book for a begginer, so ELEMENTARY level you'd expect, but once you finish the nice alphabet lessons all of the sudden you're faced with exercises with all the grammar points (all tenses, modal verbs, all different negatives, and many other grammatical structures - everything, many (most?) not done before, all mixed!) and vocabulary intermediate even advanced level!!! It's just crazy, some of the sentences. Hard to believe anyone would come up with those for a BEGINNER LEVEL! 🤯 Unnecessarily complected sentences! Even what should be a simple sentence has strange thing added to complicate it, what for?! It is supposed to be an ELEMENTARY level, beginner, remember?! Highly discouraging, learning wise - useless, if you really are just a beginner. Too much too soon. Overwhelming word salad. There's no real well thought through level structure. It just irritated me a LOT. Too often got the feeling I was just wasting my time. I believe that with a (quite) few changes it could be a decent compendium. Just make a decision - is it beginner, intermediate or a higher level? Keep to the boundaries! Respect your learner, his/her time, effort and abilities. Note to the authors - think through your LEVELS first, if you want to write a "Beginners book" keep it at this level!! Or maybe learn to recognise there are LEVELS in learning at all, to start with... 😒 Maybe hire a proper specialist in foreign language teaching methodology? Strong suggestion.

I bought this book as I learned Korean growing up conversationally but without a formal education on grammar, and so I never felt like I knew the proper rules. I’m still slowly going through this book, but I find I have a better understanding of grammar.

I'm using this book as a complement to my online Korean course and it's just great! The audio is also really good and well-spoken and that's why I mainly bought it. It is simple and well written, I love doing these lessons!

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