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    Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean
    Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean
    Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean
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    Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean

    By Samuel E. Martin

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    Learn basic Korean language communication skills with this concise language guide.

    This "quick" approach to spoken Korean is a very effective way to learn enough to function in a Korean-speaking setting. The lessons have been devised to facilitate easy language study and are conversationally applicable as soon as you learn them. All the words and phrases are high-frequency making this a great choice for Korean beginners.

    The concise and user-friendly nature of the travel-sized original version is not lost in this new ebook edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateDec 15, 1989
    ISBN9781462917020
    Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean

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      Korean in a Hurry - Samuel E. Martin

      KOREAN IN A HURRY

      by the same author

      ESSENTIAL JAPANESE

      EASY JAPANESE

      BASIC JAPANESE CONVERSATION

      DICTIONARY

      KOREAN in a HURRY

      A Quick Approach to

      Spoken Korean

      (Revised Edition)

      by

      Samuel E. Martin

      Professor of Far Eastern Linguistics

      Yale University

      Tuttle Publishing

      Boston • Rutland, Vermont • Tokyo

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, Japan

      © Copyright in Japan 1951

      by Tuttle Publishing

      All rights reserved

      Library of Congress Card No. 60-8363

      ISBN 0-8048-0349-8

      ISBN 978-1-4629-1702-0 (ebook)

      First edition, 1954

      Second (revised) edition, 1960

      Thirty-eighth printing, 2000

      info@tuttlepublishing.com

      www.tuttlepublishing.com

      Printed in Singapore

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      THIS BOOK has been written to fill a specific need: that of the thousands of foreign servicemen and civilians stationed in Korea for a year or two who wish to learn something of the language spoken around them. The structure of Korean is peculiarly complex, and difficulties plague the foreign student from the very beginning. I have attempted to simplify some of the common problems and to acquaint the reader with the most useful way to say a lot of everyday things.

      The sentences are almost all given in the Polite (-ǒ yo) style, which is both the simplest and the most widely useful. From this style, another common. style—the Intimate—is easily derived simply by dropping the final particle. Koreans who look at the book will miss the Formal (-sǔmnida) style which they feel more appropriate to use with foreigners on first acquaintance. My purpose in sticking to one style is to provide the reader with the means to say a great many different things, rather than teach him a great many ways to say the same thing. From an academic point of view, this approach has certain drawbacks. From the practical point of view, it is the quickest and simplest way to put the foreigner into direct communication with Koreans, and that is the aim of this book.

      The material is presented in the original McCune-Reischauer Romanization so that it may be used in conjunction with Joan V. Underwood’s Concise English-Korean Dictionary Romanized. This system contains a number of features which make the rather complicated structure of Korean grammar seem even more difficult than it is. The McCune-Reischauer Romanization is based on an attempt to use common English values of letters to represent Korean sounds in terms of the raw impressions they make on an American ear. This system was influenced by the Wade-Giles Romanization of Chinese and the Hepburn Romanization of Japanese. Both of these Romanizations have certain shortcomings (particularly the Chinese one), but the shortcomings do not stand out as sore thumbs in the way those of the McCune-Reischauer Romanization do, because the systems of sounds and sound changes of Chinese and Japanese are so much simpler than those of Korean. The excuse for using this rather cumbersome system here is that is seems to be favored by the person who has time for only a quick brush with the language. I have tried to simplify the use of the McCune-Reischauer system to some extent by generous word division and by showing automatic sound changes only within words. If the reader plans to go on with his study of Korean beyond the material contained in this book, he will probably find it advisable to do so either in the native script (Han-gǔl) or in one of the other Romanization systems shown in the table at the end of the lessons. For a scientific description of the structure of Korean, the reader is referred to the author’s other publications, Korean Phonemics and Korean Morphophonemics. A comprehensive grammar is in preparation.

      I hope that the material contained in this book—while perhaps oversimplifying a complicated language—will be of some immediate, practical use to the reader who wants to learn some Korean in a hurry. And I hope some of those who learn Korean in a hurry will find such an interest in the language and the people who speak it that they will someday spare the time and patience needed to master the language.

      NOTE TO REVISED EDITION

      Since work on a Korean-English dictionary has held up the preparation of my comprehensive grammar for the past several years, it seems a good idea to put out a new edition of this little book which has met with a kinder reception than I had anticipated. I am grateful to Professor Edward C. Wagner, of Harvard University, for pointing out a number of errors; these have been corrected in this edition. Several readers have asked where they might buy my monograph Korean Morphophonemics; it is available for $2.00 from the Secretary of the Linguistic Society of America, Box 7790, University Station, Austin 12, Texas. The article Korean Phonemics appears in the anthology Readings in Linguistics, edited by Martin Joos and available for $6.00 from the Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, New York.

      KOREAN IN A HURRY

      Lesson 1

      VOWELS

      The vowels and combinations of y or w with a vowel are pronounced somewhat as follows:

      NOTE: The combination ǔi has three different pronunciations:

      (1) At the beginning of a word it is pronounced like ǔ.

      (2) At the end of a word it is pronounced like i.

      (3) But, the particle meaning of is pronounced like e.

      In this book, you will find the first pronounciation

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