How Koreans Talk: A Collection of Expressions

by Sang-Hun Choe

This book is written for foreigners who want to understand Korean expressions they use including useful terms, proverbs and some kind of slang. It's written in English. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8987976955
• ISBN13: 9788987976952
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: EunHaeng NaMu
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Usefull on many different levels

This book is useful on three different levels. The first being purely informational and the second being for students of Korean language. It's the third that I think may be overlooked by potential buyers: a conversational prop for Korean coworkers. I've brought this book along with me on company outings and asked Koreans I work with to help me learn expressions to great success. Some of the expressions in the book may be outdated, but part of the fun for me was asking them to recommend some expressions that I might be able to actually use in real, modern, life. Aside from this, the book does contain a lot of cultural information about Korea, and any reader can learn a lot. Even if some of the sayings are quite old/traditional, they can provide enormous insight into the culture and history.

valuable for any foreigner living in Korea

If you need a going-away present for a foreigner travelling to Korea, or if you need a gift to send to a friend who is already staying in Korea, look no further. Thsi book gives every expression in Korean type, Romanized Korean, and English translation. As a result, it can be read by any foreigner in Korea, whether or not that foreigner is studying the language.