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Korean Author: Sung-Hyun Kirk Kim $64.60 Features:
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.1 / 5.0 
An Excellent Introductory Course: 
This course is unique because it doesn't teach you grammar, reading or writing. Instead it focuses on the natural way humans learn language: by speaking.
I found this course to be absolutely perfect for my needs. There are ten, 30 minute lessons consisting of one dialogue, then repetitions of the same. Each lesson is ideal for commuters, and that is exactly how I used it.
Two things to keep in mind, which have been addressed by other reviewers:
(1) This is the ABRIDGED and INTRODUCTORY course in...
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promises pie in the sky but delivers very little: 
I agree with the reader from New Zealand: these tapes is for beginners. Most of the material on these tapes I learned my first year in Korea.The product comes with a brochure, telling the consumer all about how wonderful the product is and what a brilliant scholar Dr. Pimsleur is. According to this brochure, "extensive research has shown that we actually need a comparatively limited number of words to be able to communicate effectively in any language." That is not true. According to a word frequency...
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learn the formal first:
I think that the course is only an introduction to the Korean language. It is good for that and no more. After having been in Korea for 2 years myself, it might help you to know that you will get a lot further learning the formal way to speak, that is, the more traditional longer form, than you would by using casual korean. Koreans are highly polite in everyday situations, they will be more welcoming to a foreigner who can use the traditional way of speaking first most. The course focuses on that well....more info
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