Ross King
Associate Professor of Korean, University of British Columbia
Dean, Korean Language Village, Concordia Language Villages

from an official review of "You Speak Korean!" submitted to
the Korea Foundation for the Publishing Subsidy Award

•  “This book will soon establish itself as the best and most popular entry-level Korean Foreign Language textbook for non-heritage learners. It is a major accomplishment and valuable contribution to the fields of Korean Studies and KFL pedagogy, full of creativity, originality, humor and sensitivity. The dialogues are witty and entertaining; the cultural notes are excellent. One of the great innovations of the book sis its use of catchy mnemonic devices to help students remember different things. This is definitely the most user-friendly KFL textbook to appear to date.”    

•  "the authors are truly attuned to the errors that North American non-heritage learners are most likely to make"

•  "the book is sufficiently self-contained to be suitable for self-study, too"

•  "excellent use of color illustrations, clip art, callouts/bubbles, reminders, cautions, language points, and other design elements for a dynamic and attractive look that catches the eye and invites the student"

•  "thematic approach to introduction of vocabulary with useful and fun items throughout; a useful and fun vocabulary set for a beginning KFL text; well organized/grouped and also extensive (the fact is that KFL learners need to learn a huge number of new vocabulary items at an early stage)"

•  "the grammar notes/structural explanations are concise without being too sketchy, and are well exemplified"

•  "authors make good use of sequencing of patterns"

•  "the cultural notes are excellent and highly entertaining"

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