Korean Language for Beginners. Basic Course

You have in front of you a unique educational manual created by recognized specialists in the field of Korean language and culture, teachers from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Irina Lvovna Kasatkina and... Chun In Sun. This self-instruction guide will allow you to master the Korean language at the TOPIK 1 level. Each of the 30 lessons contains a basic set of thematic vocabulary and necessary grammatical material with explanations, which are then practiced through exercises, dialogues, reading texts, and translation. All texts are accompanied by a dictionary and lexical-grammatical comments. For the convenience of independent work, answers to all written exercises are included at the end of the book. Special attention to reading rules and the Korean script Hangul is given in lessons 1-8, which constitute an introductory-phonetic course. This edition is intended for readers who are beginning to study Korean independently and are focused on successfully mastering the language, as well as for students of higher language and non-language educational institutions studying the Korean language.