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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0 
Best Korean Text, But Still Difficult to Follow: 
Korean is admitted a difficult language, esp. in pronunciation. As someone who also knows Japanese and Chinese, my overall impression of this title is that it is very confusing if used as a self-learning text, but is still the best introductory Korean textbook I've seen.
Strengths: Thorough introduction to the language; insistent use of the Han'gul (Korean script); good grammar notes.
Weaknesses: VERY bad audio CD (way too fast for beginners, and not enough basic sounds); choppy English at times; too... more info
Elementary Korean is the best: 
After studying Korean (on my own using internet sources etc etc) I have decided that this book is definately by far one of the best books you can get for korean. It contains an incredible amount of information. Most courses are quite small for Korean and do not contain a great deal, or are hard to manage. I have looked at the Rosetta Stone series for Korean (costing $300) and this $50 book is by far better than that whole program. It is better than any books I have seen in book stores. I have done the... more info
Great book for beginers:
This is a great book, it is not the classical phrase book (although it gives you many phrases!), but is a combination of a grammar book with a small dictionary and a phrase book.
It is written in a clear way, it's easy to understand every lesson, and it helps you to build a vocabulary wide enough. Besides, the small dicctionary at the end of the book makes easy to search for many words. Contains exercises at the end of every lesson, with their answers.
The cd is a great tool for you to hear the... more info
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