Learning Korean through History (with CD) 역사 이야기로 배우는 한국어

Click here to download the audiofiles About This BookThis book is a reading textbook for intermediate level students of Korean. It presents Korean proverbs, idiomatic expressions, vocabulary, and grammar in an interesting format, and helps learners improve their listening, reading, writing, and speaking abilities through a variety of activities and lifelike illustrations and audio clips. It helps learners to better understand Koreans and Korean culture. We provide English, Chinese, and Japanese translations for all of the vocabulary, grammar expressions, and main text passages to satisfy the curiosity of learners and allow them to study as correctly and accurately as possible.     - A new reading textbook that will boost confidence in reading while allowing the reader to imagine the stories through interesting illustrations!- Learn common Korean idiomatic expressions through traditional fairy tales! Through traditional fairy tales, readers can learn about Korean culture while also becoming familiar with common Korean idiomatic expressions, such as what it means to be ‘like a tree frog,’ or to ‘act like Nolbu.’ - Improve listening comprehension by leaps and bounds through lifelike audio files! Readers can also improve their listening comprehension by listening to the included audio files recorded by a veteran professional voice actor. - Includes a separate appendix with all main text content translated into English, Chinese, and Japanese! The included appendix with clear English, Chinese, and Japanese translations allows readers to accurately confirm the Korean text content of the fairy tales.

Learn Korean with Original K-pop Songs! K-Pop Korean is for Korean language learners at a basic and intermediate level. Using lyrics from 20 K-pop songs, the book contains simple Korean expressions that are often spoken in everyday life.In the book, a variety of steady K-pop hits even overseas are listed by genre and singer, raising the interest of Korean language learners familiar with K-pop. Moreover, the lyrics are used to explain grammatical structures such as verb usage as well as abbreviations and linguistic habits favored by Koreans, allowing for a more extensive learning. Charming illustrations adorn almost every page, helping the learner understand Korean intuitively, and aiding them to become used to simple conversational expressions that rarely appeared in other Korean textbooks. Moreover, the appendix contains the English translation of texts, original description of singer and song and grammar explanations in Korean, enabling learners or teachers to make good use of this teaching material. These are the 20 K-pop songs used in this book.(with links to Youtube videos) 1          오늘부터 우리는           여자친구 2          HONEY                       카라 3          벚꽃엔딩                     버스커버스커 4          남자 없이 잘 살아         미스에이 5          결혼해 줄래                  이승기   6          NO NO NO                   에이핑크 7          너뿐이야                       박진영 8          하루만                          방탄소년단 9          BE MY BABY               원더걸스 10        노래가 늘었어               에일리  11        Man in Love                인피니트 12        Ah-Choo                      러블리즈 13        사랑 사랑 사랑             FT아일랜드 14        너의 모든 순간              성시경 15        Hands Up                    투피엠(2PM) 16        Give It to Me               씨스타(SISTA) 17        A                                 갓세븐(GOT7) 18        썸                                소유 정기고 19        이 노래                         투에이엠 (2AM) 20        Error                           빅스 ▪ A fun book that helps you learn the Korean culture and practical Korean expressions using lyrics from 20 K-pop songs! Among K-pop songs released in the last 10 years, popular songs appropriate for basic and intermediate Korean language learners to study were selected by genre and singer, offering an opportunity to learn simple, practical and useful Korean expressions as well as the Korean culture. ▪ You can easily know by heart the various expressions and sentences from K-pop lyrics! Korean language learners can learn grammatical elements like basic Korean sentence structures, verb usage and pronunciation using K-pop lyrics that they can easily take interest in and approach. The learners can easily memorize the various expressions and sentences used in the lyrics thanks to a deeply engaging material. ▪ You can easily understand and speak Korean thanks to friendly K-pop lyrics and charming illustrations depicting different situations! The lyrics are incorporated into each chapter’s key expressions, and charming illustrations were used in exercises for learners to easily and entertainingly understand the usage, drastically reducing the burden of studying. ▪  English translations of lyrics, chapter texts and conversations are provided as well as grammar explanations in Korean in the appendix! The entire lyrics of the songs as well as the texts and conversations in each chapter are translated into English to help the learners take interest in Korean without the burden of studying. Descriptions of the singer and song are provided in English, and grammar explanations are given in Korean and English both, which makes the material more useful not only to Korean language learners but also to teachers at various institutes.