2000 Most Common Korean Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your Korean Vocabulary with 2000 Korean Phrases (Korean Language Lessons)

It helps me to read better, and learned a few basic words

Continuing their mission to encourage global compatibility, once again Lingo Mastery has come to the rescue, allowing us to make Korean more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘These days, many people all over the world are fascinated by the Korean culture, with global interest growing in Korean cultural exports such as K-drams, K-pop music, TV shows and K-beauty. Furthermore, smartphones and home appliances made in South Korea have spread across the globe, teaching more audiences and helping techno logical markets evolve. Therefore, with this development of Korean culture influence, the number of people visiting South Korea is increasing, and many college students spend time in South Korea for studying and travel…If you learn Korean, there will ne many benefits to your life.’After their success teaching Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese, now they turn to teaching Korean! And it works. To make the Korean – Hangul - characters accessible, transcriptions are provided in the form of transliteration and conventional signs used for transcription. Taking it slowly, step by step with practice, Korean words become accessible! And one of the very successful features of this book is the depth of discussion about the symbols, grammar, and English phonology of words – a feature that makes this a quality textbook!The technique is solid and the lessons well taught. This is a very fine introduction to Korean vocabulary that may arise when you visit Korea or simply conversing and understand the Korean population here at home. This book is appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, August 20

Frequency dictionaries are some of the most powerful tools in a language learner's toolkit. This one is a WAY BETTER resource than the free Topic frequency lists you can find on the internet. I'm pretty sure those lists are compiled based exclusively on news articles or other scholarly sources, so they include some advanced / formal words that would be awkward to use in everyday speech. This dictionary states that it was compiled using a mix of dialogue from movies, news articles, and other sources, so it's more balanced.One issue I'm finding is that many of the most common words (especially the ones appearing in the first 1/4 of the book) are common because they are used as part of Korean grammar. For example, 대하다 means "to treat," but it's used a lot in Korean because it can also mean "to pertain to something." E.g., I think about my friend is "나는 내 친구에 대해 생각하다." The book will NOT indicate to you that a word is popular because it serves some grammatical usage, so you will need to do your own research to figure it out. This is my only gripe.Overall, still giving it 5 stars because frequency dictionaries are very difficult to compile, and this one appears to have picked its words well, and has provided some good example sentences which use the words. If the author plans to do an updated version, I definitely recommend some sort of flag or indicator to show that a word serves some grammatical purpose.

Overall, I do think that the book is useful.. to some extent.My main problem with this book, which is the reason I am giving 4 stars instead of 5, is that the "words in context" concept they're so proud of is largely useless. The book is clearly aimed at beginners, judging by the words offered, and yet the "context" they are presented in is often upper intermediate or even advanced, so you don't actually get to absorb the new word in its everyday use. For example, the word "strong" is offered the next sentence for context: "A strong wind increased the damage caused by the flooding". By that point, chances are, we as beginners are not familiar with words like "to increase", "damage", "to cause", or "flooding", and personally I believe that throwing 5 unfamiliar words together in a sentence does not help you learn any of them. So, yeah, I am not thrilled, but I don't regret buying the book - flipping through the pages on the long subway rides will anyhow get at least some of the words into my head eventually.

This has expanded my vocabulary in 1 week then my trying to teach myself and using apps that don't help that much. I gives you phrases to work with and you can practice by switching out words and making new phrases out of the ones provided. I do wish they had a small packet (pictures) or had a little help with pronunciation because it matters where/how you hold your mouth when trying to pronounce certain words

The media could not be loaded. Laid out very well. I pick one or two per day and work to memorize and incorporate into written and spoken practice. No frills and I like it. Good Introduction with some information I had not already learned in class.

I wasn’t ready to use this book when I first bought it, but now I am two-thirds way through it and finding it to very helpful. Errors/awkward translations are few and far between and the sentences are generally well-chosen. One caveat: you will need to keep a good dictionary and reference grammar handy as there are no explanations provided beyond the translations.