Korean Listening Course (Volume 1) (Includes Cassette)

Author: Yin Jing'ai
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This is a Korean language learning material that combines scientificity, practicality, and novelty. The book consists of four main parts: Pronunciation, Main Text, Reference Answers, and Audio Materials for the Main Text. The Pronunciation section focuses on developing the ability to recognize sounds. You can learn Korean vowels, consonants, sound changes, and intonation. The Main Text aims to cultivate grammar application skills, sociolinguistic communication skills, conversation organization skills, and comprehensive language use skills. This book is a beginner-level listening course designed for lower-division students of Korean language majors and beginners of Korean. It is urgent to compile a relatively standardized listening textbook. A "relatively standardized listening textbook" refers to a textbook with clear phased objectives and plans, and various exercise types that can evaluate listening skills. This textbook is written based on this purpose and has certain academic value. The textbook consists of four main parts: Pronunciation, Main Text, Reference Answers, and Audio Materials for the Main Text. The Pronunciation section belongs to the field of phonology and aims to develop the ability to recognize sounds. Students can learn Korean vowels, consonants, sound changes, and intonation. The textbook concisely explains pronunciation rules and includes various exercises, allowing students to practice and review the learned content in a timely manner based on the progress of the basic course. At the same time, to stimulate students' learning motivation, it also includes popular Korean songs and Korean tongue twisters in China. The Main Text aims to cultivate students' grammar application skills, sociolinguistic communication skills, conversation organization skills, and comprehensive language use skills. To develop these skills, the Main Text includes various relatively novel exercises. These exercises cover both question types for the International Korean Language Proficiency Test and practice exercises for major grammar points at the beginner level. The book is organized by theme, with rich and well-structured content, aiming to help learners understand scenarios through vivid dialogues and articles, enabling them to accurately and fluently use the learned knowledge, listen to and produce information with ease, and achieve the goal of communication. The Main Text is composed of the following parts: Preparation, Model Exercises, Practical Exercises, and Improvement Exercises. The "Preparation" section explains the new words and grammar and sentence patterns introduced in this lesson. Through the "Model Exercises," students can consolidate the learned grammar and understand the scenarios. The "Practical Exercises" and "Improvement Exercises" are arranged according to the difficulty level of the content and include various exercise types aligned with the International Korean Language Proficiency Test. Through these three parts of exercises, students can gradually improve their listening skills. The book also includes reference answers and audio materials for the Main Text for self-assessment by learners.