Top 14 Korean Books For Beginners Updated 04 /2024

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Starter-friendly Korean textbooks are what you need. Good!

With five-minute lessons, some people learn. Some people want to listen to lessons. When that's done, there are also books.

It's "" or "" in Korean, which means "book" (gyogwaseo.)

In order to learn Korean, you need to have a book that gives you the structure that you need From page 1 to 200, you'll learn about hangul, grammar, writing, reading, and everything else you won't learn from K-Dramas, like how to read and write.

Are textbooks the only way to learn the whole language? No. But it's a good place to start and good material for learning about Korean.

Living Language Korean, Complete Edition: Beginner through Advanced

What makes it good: It's an all-in-one book for beginners that teaches everything.

With the help of Living Language andJaemin Roh

Beautiful, easy to use, and not for the faint of heart. A workbook to help you with reading and writing, audio CDs, and a handy empty notebook are all included in the package.

For the price of 4 books, you're getting 304 pages and 9 audio CDs for the whole thing.

I think you should use the CDs as soon as you can.

Hear real Korean and you won't be able to learn it by reading about it on your own.

I also think that you should get a Korean dictionary if you choose this one over the other one.

This is the best deal out of all the Korean textbooks when it comes to how much money you get for your money.

If you want to learn Korean, I can also recommend KoreanClass101.com. You can get audio and video lessons from real teachers. So, you can just start a lesson, learn, and speak.

You can find out more about them here.

What comes next?

Korean From Zero! 1: Proven Methods to Learn Korean with Workbook

Are you a beginner?

Then, you'll like this Korean textbook, as well.

What makes it good: It's an all-in-one book for beginners that teaches everything.

It was written by George Trombley.

So far, this book has been one of the best ways to learn about Korean. Start learning Hangul right away. You don't have any time to waste.

Even though it's 360 pages, the book is very well organized and keeps you going because there is a plan for everything.

There are a lot of places to practice your handwriting in the Hangul section of the book and in the rest of the book, too.

It's like a workbook and a text book all at the same time.

Some people think this is the best place to start.

Korean Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to learning the Korean Language

Extremely useful and a good book for beginners.

What makes it good: It's an all-in-one book for beginners that teaches everything.

'Billy's Go':

If I were to start learning Korean again, I'd start with this as the first thing I would do.

Why? First, Hangul is taught by Korean Made Simple, which is good.

It has 20 chapters, and at the end of each one, there are practice sections and review lists that you can look at.

Over 348 pages, the book teaches you more than 1,000 words on top of Hangul and grammar, as well as how to write.

This might be my favorite of all the books on this list of the best Korean textbooks.

Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, 2nd Edition (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language)

This 232-page book was written by the University of Hawaii.

Everything you need to know is in this book for beginners. The level of college.

The University of Hawaii Press made this book.

A college book? That doesn't mean it's hard!

Just to say that it's okay.

If you want the kind of book that students use in school, instead of books made by language companies or language bloggers, this is the one for you.

With the CD, you get to learn simple words and hangul right away.

Each lesson builds on the grammar you've learned in the previous lessons, so it's not that hard to keep up with all of them.

There are a lot of good things about this book:

It's easy to understand all of the grammar and words. There isn't going to be any need for a dictionary if you buy this book.

As a whole, your ability to read and write will get a lot better with this method.

500 Basic Korean Verbs: The Only Comprehensive Guide to Conjugation and Usage (Downloadable Audio Files Included)

Do you want this?

Why did this book make the list of the best Korean books?

Honestly, it's more of a reference book than a book you would read.

It's good because: A lot of verbs and how to conjugate them are important, so learn a lot of them.

People who live in Kyubyong Park

If you want to speak more Korean, you're going to need a lot of words.

Here, you can learn 500 verbs.

If you're a lazy person, this is great news! Conjugation charts for all of the verbs are shown in this book. It's a good book to keep around. To improve your conjugation skills, learn more words.

What do I think about Korean textbooks like this?

They should be looked at a little at a time. Today, a few words. Tomorrow, a few. A few next week, then. Many pages per day.

Goal: Don't get too stressed out!

There are good things about this. You'll come back to this a lot, which is good.

You improve your Korean verb and conjugation skills, which makes them stronger.

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)

You should already know Hangul before you start this Korean book.

You should.

Then, are you ready to learn the rules of grammar and speak English better? Because you'll learn them at school.

You need to learn Korean grammar to make it good

Andrew Sangpil wrote this.

Korean grammar is taught in one of the best books in the country. Clear and detailed explanations of basic Korean grammar are spread out over 256 pages in this book.

If you want to understand how a sentence works, this is a good tool to use.

How should you use this? Like the 500 Verbs book, review it a little at a time. You will also find yourself going back to the book to review grammar rules or learn new ones.

Most of the time, if I see a new sentence pattern somewhere else, I go to this site to learn more about it.

Besides that, each chapter has a quiz and an answer key at the end of it.

So, this is only for beginners, but there is also a more advanced version of this that you can use.

Let’s Speak Korean: Learn Over 1,400+ Expressions Quickly and Easily

There is one thing that you need to be able to speak a lot of Korean.

Phrases.

Having a wide range of words is important. Isn't it also good to learn some phrases? Because now you know how to say real things! You can learn more than 1,400 phrases in this 136-page book, which teaches you about 21 different topics, like how to introduce yourself, how to shop at a store, and so on. Very simple.

The best way to make it good: Learn a lot of common words.

Fandom Education is how you learn about things.

Conclusion: It's very easy for new people.

Korean Grammar in Use_Beginning

This is a good grammar book, too, but this one is better.

By three Korean teachers who teach the language to people from other countries, it was written

In fact, people like you.

What makes it good is that it teaches basic grammar.

Jean-Myung, Lee Kyung-ah, and Han Hoo-youn wrote this.

It is very easy to use. All kinds of grammar rules are taught in 376 pages. You learn them all. You get dialogues so you can see how the rules work in real life, and you can read them. Then, you work on the exercises.

You won't learn any vocabulary or how to read here, and you should already know how to read. So, even though this is for "beginners," it's not for brand new beginners who have never done this before.

Please learn the Hangul before you start reading this book.

Do you also have Intermediate and Advanced versions? You can find them, too!

Dirty Korean: Everyday Slang from “What’s Up?” to “F*%# Off!

Need this. Why?

Everyone who starts learning a new language must learn the JUICY parts first – the words that aren't good.

Fun: What makes it good:

In this case, it was Haewon Geebi Baek who wrote the book

People use slang and swear words on 128 pages of this book.

Good words to read, from slang to dirty words.

Great as a supplement and for reading when you have a lot of time to kill.

Talk To Me In Korean Level 1

People who make the "Talk to Me in Korean" podcast made this book.

These people are a company that teaches Korean over the web.

What makes it good: It's a good general textbook to start with.

In Korean, Talk to Me

Here, you learn Korean in a conversational way, not the kind you learn in textbooks.

This is another good place to start learning Korean. You can learn grammar, and you can also just keep moving forward.

I like it, so it's on the list now. The Korean textbooks here are all good if you want to pick one to buy.

Just 164 pages long, and you get extra audio files for it as well.

Free Korean Textbook

Whether you like them or not, I found a free Korean textbook for beginners with audio files. I don't know how you feel about PDF "books." A lot of thanks go out to Monash University.

 

If you click on the links below, you can get both My Korean 1 and 2.

My first and second Korean lessons went well.

Korean Practice Notebook: Hangul Manuscript

Not at all. This isn't one of the "best books on Korean."

Besides, if you know me and how much I love writing things down, you'll understand why I put the book here.

There are 100 pages in the workbook. Inside, the goal is for you to learn how to say Hangul and Korean words. That's all.

That's it.

Another thing: The author is also from my hometown, so there's that, too!

The best Korean textbooks are being talked about now.

...we can't forget about Korean phrasebooks.

In Korean, there are Phrasebooks that help you learn words.

Why? Korean phrasebooks are a great way to help you learn. You can use this as a source of phrases that you can learn quickly. The answer is: It sounds like you can speak more Korean now.

Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet is known for its phrasebooks, so this is on the list of things to do.

Notice that this book is small enough to fit in your pocket.

Lots of phrases, a great resource for when you don't have everything you need.

It was written by Lonely Planet.

Over 272 pages, you learn travel phrases, conversational phrases, how to ask for directions, how to order food, and a lot more. You should get this book if you plan to go on a trip. It's a lot of information and is worth having. Or, if you just want to go over or learn more practice words, you can do that, too.

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