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Conversational Korean: Learn to Speak and Understand Korean with Pimsleur Language Programs (Instant Conversation)

 
 
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Conversational Korean: Learn to Speak and Understand Korean with Pimsleur Language Programs (Instant Conversation)

This Conversational program contains 8 hours of interactive audio-only instruction, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.

HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®

What is the Pimsleur® difference?

The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Korean structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Korean can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.

The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only these pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.

When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed.

With Pimsleur you get:

  • Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
  • Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
  • The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
  • 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.

Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills.

Conversational Korean includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic Korean plus an additional 6 lessons.

The 16 lessons in Conversational Korean are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Korean Level 1.

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Product Details:
Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Publication Date: February 27, 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 0743551206
Package Length: 9.7 inches
Package Width: 7.9 inches
Package Height: 2.2 inches
Package Weight: 0.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 4 reviews
 
 

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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

4very good program  Jun 28, 2007
You have to ask yourself what you're going to get out of a program that consists of 16 30-minute units. You are not going to be fluent in Korean at the end of this course. I still can understand only snippets of Korean conversations. However this course gives you the basics to converse simply and ask simple questions in Korean. Although it is true that my Korean friends have said that some of the language on these CD's is stilted, most of it is acceptable. With the Korean language, you speak with different levels of respect to different people; and to teach you all the different ways to speak in this course would have been impossible. I pronunced some words/phrases wrong but this was a problem of my ear...my Korean friends heard the CD and had no problem with the Korean speakers. I therefore recommend this CD...mainly because my Korean friends understood me and were glad that I was making an effort to learn the language.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

1Terrible  Apr 23, 2007
My wife is a native of Korea, and I got this to better communicate with her and her family. Each day I would go through a lesson and practice what I learned with her. But more than 70% of the time, she couldn't understand what I was saying. After getting across what I was trying to say, she said only someone born before 1930 would talk like that. I gave up after 10 lessons.

There's also no mention of grammar in the lessons. Now I'm not looking for the intricacies of linguistics, but in Korean, the verb comes at the end of the sentence. This is never mentioned! Instead they force you to memorize backwards English, "Now say, I would like 2 beers - literally I 2 beers would." Very confusing. They also say, "Sometimes you add the ending 'ga' to the end of words", but they fail to mention when and why. I had to look online to find the answer.

This is not a good place to learn Korean.





1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5The Best Korean Language system...Bar None!  Apr 11, 2007
This is the fourth Korean Language system I have bought. I have Rosetta Stone, I have two others I can't even remember the names of,and i have to say, Pimsleur is by far, leaps and bounds better than all others. The explanations are clear, the way he rehearses you through the phrases makes the sentences stick with you and the sentences themselves are phrases that get you speaking Korean right away. I am so Happy I found this set. I am confident that at the end of the 16 lessons I will feel comfortable having a intelligent conversation. I recommend it highly...don't waste your money on systems that teach you how to say "apple" and "Napkin" when you can learn to have an intelligent converstation and know what you are saying. Five Stars indeed!

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

1Buying it was a mistake  Mar 20, 2007
I got this for my family with high hopes. We have many Korean friends and wanted to understand what they were saying to each other. After practicing a few lessons we tried it out, but no one understood what we were saying. It turns out that the language used on the CD is out of date and doesn't emulate modern speakers. This isn't so bad (my experience learning Japanese at school was similar), but it also turns out that one of the "native speakers" on the CD actually has a strong Korean-American accent.

 
 
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