Korean Language. Self-Study Guide

This self-study guide is intended for those who are learning Korean on their own. It helps develop the speaking skills necessary for communication and reading simple literature, and mastering the basics of grammar: the lessons of the self-study guide introduce... the grammatical features of the language and commonly used everyday vocabulary. Once mastered, it allows you to handle any situation during direct communication with the people of Korea without difficulty. To quickly memorize common speech constructions, carefully read the dialogues and the supplementary lexical material, which is accompanied by transliteration (the thematic list is provided in the contents). In each lesson of the self-study guide, you will find descriptions of lexical-grammatical categories of parts of speech, exercises to memorize the studied material, and texts using active speech structures. For checking the completed exercises, keys are provided at the end of the book. The lessons of the self-study guide are supplemented with a dictionary that can be used to translate unfamiliar words encountered in the exercises. The book also includes country-specific information that will undoubtedly be useful during travel in Korea.