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simeus
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Hi. I volunteer with a literacy organization and I'm tutoring a Korean prof. who is in the States on sabatical. His english is very good and we mostly work on idioms and conversation. I was looking for a decent korean dictionary so that I could learn a bit of Korean from him. I picked up a book from the library today called "Korean in plain english". Haven't really looked at it yet but I read a few negative reviews on amazon. I'm not looking for books to become fluent, but rather something that will help me pick up a few words and phrases. Phonetic spelling would be a must. Thanks for any ideas.

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stormboy
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How about a phrasebook rather than a dictionary if you're just after the basics? This will give you more than isolated words and will help with using the right register of language. Lonely Planet and Berlitz both publish Korean phrasebooks (I'm sure there are many others), and these both use Hangul (Korean script) together with transliteration in Roman script.

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energizer
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i learned hangul in under 24 hours. So, i am pretty sure you could do the same. I don't think I could do the same for english alphabets.

alphabet constructs are linear and 1-dimensional. hangul, on the other hand is 2-dimensional - the fact of which is curious enough to be studied.

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