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| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6110 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 1 of 7 22 January 2010 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
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There seems to be few quality textbooks for Korean, and almost none that is about the North Korean dialect. So what would be the best book for beginners?
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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6694 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 7 22 January 2010 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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Try this related thread here
But anyway, it doesn't seem like there is much if any materials for learning North Korean, but here's two wiki links explaining differences between North & South Korea here and here. If you're looking for textbooks teaching North Korean there is almost probably none, unless you could get your hands on old textbooks from the Soviet Union teaching North Korean (although I don't even know whether they exist or not). Anyway, if you're interested in learning Korean you may as well go for the dialect that produces a ton of interesting movies, dramas, music, literature etc, has an abundance of great learning materials, and belongs to a country that is open to travel and that doesn't send its citizens to gulags, i.e. standard South Korean :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6110 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 3 of 7 23 January 2010 at 1:31am | IP Logged |
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Thank you, unzum!
Actually, I was wondering if the Korean dialect spoken in Northeastern China is any different from the "official" language of North Korea? They certainly use many mandarin words, but to what degree is it different from the southern and northern version? I am soon leaving for this area, and I guess studying the NK dialect would get me far in understanding the locals. Sadly, I didn't find any good material. But then, what would be the best books teaching South Korean? Is there any "ultimate material" for beginners (much like the Princeton Russian)? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6148 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 7 23 January 2010 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
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For South Korean, you could use FSI Korean. It's been recently updated and the audio has been rerecorded for better sound quality. A popular text is Integrated Korean.
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6096 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 5 of 7 23 January 2010 at 7:27am | IP Logged |
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Wilfried Herrmann's Lehrbuch der Modernen Koreanischen Sprache teaches North Korean dialect, and is also often touted as being the best method for learning Korean. But alas, the book is sadly all but non-existant anymore. I have the cassettes, but am still (hopelessly) searching for a copy of the book. Edited by ChristopherB on 23 January 2010 at 7:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5315 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 7 of 7 24 January 2010 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
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In Professor Arguelles' Youtube video review of the Dunwoody series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDrUa3sw2vc), he made note of his own contributions to that book series, one of which was a Korean Newspaper Reader. The notable part, though, is that he used both North Korean and South Korean articles to compile the reader, so using that should be useful for learning some of the differences in terminology between the two regions.
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