Longtail Books Talk To Me In Korean Level 1 (downloadable Audio Files Included)

Excelente, libro

Sergio for sending this all the way from South Korea. My daughter is very pleased and the package was well protected!

I'm on book two, almost book 3 of this series. And I have to say these books are really good at teaching and explaining concepts. The audio tracks are perfect for listening and pronunciation practice too. You will need to learn Hangul prior to these books, and you could either learn this online (plenty of guides on youtube) or TTMIK have another book for that.

Exactly what I had hoped for.

I like this instruction book a great deal. I bought the workbook to go with it, and that gave extra practice for the instruction. The instruction progresses logically from the first Hangul phrases one must know, and moves into grammar: verb, verb tenses, markers, noun, pronoun, subjects etc. The lesson topics are nicely integrated so that the learner learns a bit of each before moving on. Short dialogues are also helpful. The very first lessons--greetings, etc--are a bit daunting at first, but as the lessons progress and the learner sticks with it, the flow builds confidence and ability, slowly, but surely. One thing that pleased me very much was the presentation of verb conjugation. I have been taking another course, concurrently, and frankly, I was experiencing great frustration over the overly complicated and not-as-clever-as-they-think explanations for the spellings of verb endings. Then I came to the chapter of TTMIK about verb conjugations. With the caution that there would be a few exceptions, the instructions were, "If this is the case, do this. If that is the case, do that." So simple! So logical! So clean and easy to understand. If I hadn't already liked this book, that, itself, would have sold me on the content. There is a link provided for downloadable supplements in pronunciation etc. This is also helpful--with a caveat. The site asks you to download the latest flash player. I always have the latest flash player because Apple keeps you up to date with software. I also check with Adobe to see that I do, in fact, have the latest. Nevertheless, the site wants me to download again. I am reluctant to do this because there are so many dodgy sites that offer to download a phony Adobe flash malware. I want to trust this site; I know they are honest. Yet this is a concern. I would also like to see more vocabulary introduced a little earlier. I have finished this first title and am so pleased that I have ordered the four following volumes: 1-5 in all. If more are published, I will order them. Thanks to TTMIK for an excellent language course