201 Korean Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All Aspects, Moods, Tenses, And Formality Levels [Paperback]

Seok Choong Song (Author)

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Text: English, Korean

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc (February 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812025679
• ISBN-13: 978-0812025675
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,815,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One-of-a-kind, but could be better, April 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 201 Korean Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All Aspects, Moods, Tenses, And Formality Levels (Paperback)

Verb conjugation books are extremely useful for foreign language learners. This book is the only book that presents conjugation tables for Korean verbs. Unfortunately, this book has two serious flaws. First, the conjugation tables are entirely Romanized! Any student who enrolls in a beginning level Korean course learns Hangeul the first week. It is probably the easiest alphabet in the world to learn. Since most learners of Korean acquire new vocabulary and verb endings through Hangeul not Romanized spellings, this book is difficult to use. The Romanized spellings all look like Greek to me! I sincerely hope the author of this book writes a Hangeul edition.

A second, lesser flaw is that conjunctive endings are not included. Verbs are conjugated differently when attached to conjunctions, such as "myeon" (if) and "seo" (because). Since English verbs are conjugated in the same way whether in the dependent clause or the main clause, combining Korean verbs with conjunctive endings is confusing for English speakers. Irregular verbs are a particular problem since sometimes the verb follows the irregular pattern and sometimes it does not, depending on the initial sound of the conjunction. A verb conjungation book should include the formation of verbs with conjunctive endings.

Korean is not a popular foreign language, so there is a paucity of good materials; I hope someone in the field of Korean as a Foreign/Second Language education reads this and writes a more complete, user-friendly verb guide.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Trying to learn Korean without its alphabet is ridiculous, December 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 201 Korean Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All Aspects, Moods, Tenses, And Formality Levels (Paperback)

How silly was this? I didn't know this book would be romanized. Could you imagine a native Korean speaker trying to learn English without knowing the Roman alphabet? His entire textbook filled with English words written in the Korean alphabet? That's exactly how silly it is to try to learn Korean in the Roman alphabet. I had no idea what those words were! Like the other guy said, "i cheakul saji maseyo"

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Agreed, a total disaster!, December 23, 2000

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John (Tempe, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 201 Korean Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All Aspects, Moods, Tenses, And Formality Levels (Paperback)

I completely agree with the previous reviews, I'm just glad I first saw it on the local library shelf rather than in a delivery box. I went ahead and checked it out thinking I could make some use of it. Yeah, right! The fact that it is romanized is bad enough, but the romanization used is the most arcane and abstruse versions out there. I've studied Korean for two years and at first glance can't read any of it. I might try and convince my wife to translate it into hangul, but she would have to stop laughing first.