Instant Korean: How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (Korean Phrasebook)

Instant Korean: How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (Korean Phrasebook)

Boye Lafayette De Mente
$6.95
Publication Date: June 1st, 2005
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
9780804835961
Pages:
128

Description

It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication

Do you want to speak simple Korean but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Korea for a short time and want a Korean phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this Korean phrasebook for you. It's tiny 0.4 x 4.1 x 5.9 inches size makes it incredibly convenient to travel with but without losing the most essential content for communication.

The idea of Instant Korean is simple--learn 100 words and phrases and say 1,000 things. The trick is knowing which 100 words to learn, but the author Boye Demente has solved the problem, choosing only those words you'll hear again and again. Even with a Korean language vocabulary this small, you'll be surprised how quickly you can learn Korean and how fluently you too can communicate in Korean. An English-Korean glossary makes looking up words and phrases simple and quick. Here's a sample of what you'll be able to do with this Korean phrasebook:

  • Meet people.
  • Go shopping.
  • Ask directions.
  • Ride the subway.
  • Order food and drinks.
  • And much more.

About the Author

Boye Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, and Korea since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, trade journalist, editor, and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (now Thunderbird: The School of Global Management). His 70-plus books include Japan's Cultural Code Words, Business Guide to Japan, and Japan Unmasked.

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