This textbook is a continuation of the 2-volume “한국말 하시네요! / You Speak Korean!” first year series. It was created as the first volume in a 2-volume second-year series for a classroom course for students with no background in the Korean language prior to working with the first year series. The textbooks can successfully be used in the classroom under the guidance of an experienced teacher, who will provide some supplementary activities for practice of the grammatical points and vocabulary introduced as well as basic reading, writing, speaking and listening practice.

The “한국말 하시는군요! / You Speak Korean!” books can also be fun and useful for individual study, especially with the help of a Korean-speaker friend or tutor.

Book 3 consists of a Preliminary chapter and 5 other chapters.  The main focus of Book 3 is the use of the four different speech styles.
The material in this textbook is intended to fill one academic year of a standard, non-intensive college-level intermediate course (or a one-quarter, intensive course, where applicable).

The Preliminary Chapter is structured somewhat differently from the others. it provides an overview of the three types of ending that students learned in Books 1 and 2 (V-type, C-type and 으-type) and a review of irregular verbs, followed by lessons on markers and pronunciation rules. Exercises are included, and it will be convenient for students to refer back to the lists and charts included in the Preliminary Chapter.

There are five numbered chapters this textbook. Each chapter has:

• Vocabulary Usage Notes (단어 사용법 노트) -- explanations of usage particulars

The extensive Vocabulary (단어) lessons include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs along a theme that is reflected in the Dialogue and Reading, and can be practiced via the Vocabulary Exercises. In all vocabulary lists, nouns marked with an asterisk (*) can be used as verbs, using 하다. Additional relevant but, perhaps, advanced vocabulary items are provided in a Supplementary Vocabulary (보충단어) section, and relevant vocabulary items taught in the first year books are listed for the student to review in Review Vocabulary (복습용 단어). Vocabulary
sections are thus lessons in their own right and should be covered before moving on to the Dialogues.

Dialogues make use of the new vocabulary and that of preceding chapters, and they focus on a particular grammatical structure while integrating the Other grammar points as well. Dialogues can be read for basic comprehension and as examples of vocabulary usage when the immediately preceding Vocabulary has been learned (passive/recognition stage). Dialogues can be re-examined as examples of the grammatical structures presented in the following Grammar section. And, finally, the dialogues serve as a review once the Grammar section is completed. Main Dialogue exercises should be undertaken after the vocabulary and grammar have been studied, with the possible exception of the Comprehension questions. Where it arises, additional vocabulary necessary for understanding the dialogue are translated in the right-hand margin of each dialogue.

Grammar sections are divided into one Main Grammar point and several smaller, Other Grammar points, each explained carefully and concisely, with examples of correct and incorrect usage. Where confusion with other forms in Korean (or English) is common, a special note is made alongside a warning icon. All grammar points are exemplified in the Dialogue and Reading.

Practice Dialogues and Exercises for all grammar points follow the grammar section. Practice Dialogues are shorter dialogues, related to the Main Dialogue, that can be memorized and also modified to reflect students’ ideas and lives. Students should make an effort to completely
memorize at least this dialogue in each chapter. The earlier Exercises focus on one grammar point each, while later exercises may combine grammar points. Four or more exercises are dedicated to the practicing of the Main Grammar point, 2-3 exercises for each of the Others. Instructions are provided in English for clarity and simplicity. Most exercises are readily used in the classroom as group or partner activities, and many can additionally be used as homework (written) practice.

One or two Chapter Tasks provide a larger context for more natural usage of the chapter grammar and vocabulary in a dialogue or other activity for beyond the classroom.

At the end of each lesson is a Reading that uses all grammar points and a majority of the vocabulary once again, in a written format (e.g. journal, email, letter, advertisement). Where it arises, additional vocabulary necessary for understanding the reading are glossed in the right-hand margin of each Reading.

Finally, a Culture Shock section, discussion on a cultural theme related to the chapter topic offers some current information about Korean culture, life in Seoul, and “culture shock”-type anecdotes for further discussion.

A Poem is included after each chapter as well.

Pronunciation, linguistic and cultural points, and songs are added where relevant between main sections. Instructors may wish to spend class time further exemplifying or discussing these points.

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