Become a Hangeul Master: Secrets of Reading Korean Handwriting - 300 Writing Samples from Native Koreans

This is the best resource I have found so far for learning Hangeul. I already knew the basics and could read, albeit very slowly, but I wasn't confident about pronuncation despite watching numerous videos etc. I also for some reason, struggled with vowels, but think that is probably an age thing.This book goes back to absolute basics, dealing with each consonant and vowel individually, showing how it is written, pronunciation advice and tongue placement, which I have found particularly invaluable. You are given plenty of opportunity and space to practice writing, and at the end of each section you will find a short test to make sure you have absorbed the lesson before moving on.You can download free audio tracks to use along with the book so basically this book covers if all, and if you stick with it there is no way you will reach the end without being confident in Hangeul.My only minor gripe is that I am not keen on the landscape format but I understand why it was published this way, for the sake of the writing drills. This is not a big enough gripe for me to knock off a star, because this really is a resource I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn Hangeul - and I would say to absolutely steer clear of romanization, it's not necessary once you are a 한글 master!Oh, and perhaps even more importantly, this book is great fun to use, and gives you a real sense of achievement as you realise that it is all falling into place.

I think the description of two stars ("I don't like it") accurately summarizes the book. Sure, it does its job but that's about it. To summarize the book, it's reads like ebook + child's book (expected considering the target audience). The ebook portion is incredibly unfortunate considering for the price (£28 close to double the price of our American counterparts pay) a textbook could've been purchased (which I dropped in favour of this heavily recommended book - it's now painfully apparent why the only recommendations of this book comes from those that are barely literate in Korean or sponsored).First of all, the book itself: it, unlike the rest of the collection, is landscape which is to facilitate practices next to examples because for some reason having the practice sections underneath the examples. It becomes quickly apparent that this is to add more pages to the book (it feels like an amateur graphic designer trying to use 'white space' after reading a 30 second blog about it). This may be nitpicking, but in the grand scheme of things? It adds up.Second, the layout: this is where you get a sense for the ebook portion of the book. Have you ever read Tae Kim's guide to Japanese? If you haven't it's a popular online grammar guide to Japanese, the first page features a grid of the Japanese alphabet, this works for learners online as they can click each individual letter and view a small video of the stroke order. This book has ripped directly from Tae Kim's useful grid, the issue being obviously you can't click the grid. So you find yourself practicing from a book which gives you the grid, sound, several pages of grammar which relies on the writing of the alphabet. Yet you haven't learnt how to properly construct each letter until later in the book. This means you're either rewriting the book into your own set of notes, frantically flipping between pages or you're just happy with guessing...This issue is even more painstakingly obvious due to the amateurish attempt at white space leaves a page dedicated to three letters (with the letter taking up a fifth of the page) only to see a tiny portion of English text (often less than four words as an example of its pronunciation). With then a crammed example of the letter in Korean text. This means rather than flipping through 3 pages to refer back to, you're flipping through 10+ pages of which half of them are the cheap yellow tinge the paper's printed on.The motto: Learn Hangeul without buying any other books is true, because after learning a tiny bit of Hangeul you'll want to drop learning Korean all together.Quintessentially, it's a book that badly mixes the elements of a textbook, online functionaries, and visual novelties. It feels cheap, and for children. Considering the price? It's terrible, the only reason it isn't a one star is because it still does its job. Horribly and painstakingly expensive, but it still does it.It'll take a bit more motivation than most Hangeul resources to comb through but it'll still work.

It was written to be in good condition :) but i think it looks brand new? So it was way better than i expected, there is nothiing written there or any problems with the book, i am quite satisfied as someone who was afraid to get a used item someone had because you never know what to expect :Dd also shipping was quite fast, took about 1week, it was written to expect about a month plus minus, so that was amazing to get it faster than exoected, and i didnt really have any problems :) so im happy with seller and the purchase, love it

Great illustrations, great audio accompaniment from the website provided within the book, great explanations and an awesome page on natural, Korean handwriting. The gold standard for learning Korean. Of course, as with most things, you could just learn for free on the internet. But this is doing it properly, with a good reference book, so that you may begin learning Korean on a solid foundation. Thank you, Hyun-woo and the team! Give me a job, would ya? I'm the best English-Korean speaker on the planet Earth!

Very good for beginners. Lots of useful stuff. However I can't access the files. (can someone help)

Great book...very easy to understand

really helping me with my studies so far!

따봉 Very good