Korean Language for Beginners. Basic Course

You have in front of you a unique textbook compiled by recognized specialists in the field of Korean language and culture, teachers from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, Irina Lvovna Kasatkina and Chun In Sun. This self-study guide will allow you to master the Korean language at the TOPIK 1 level. Each of the 30 lessons contains a basic set of thematic vocabulary and necessary grammatical material with explanations, which are then practiced through exercises, dialogues, texts for reading and translation. All texts are accompanied by a dictionary and lexical-grammatical comments. For the convenience of self-study, answers to all written exercises are provided at the end of the book. Special attention to reading rules and the Korean writing system Hangul is given in lessons 1–8, which constitute an introductory-phonetic course. The publication is intended for readers beginning to study the Korean language independently and aiming for successful language mastery, as well as for students of higher linguistic and non-linguistic educational institutions studying the Korean language.