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# Tuttle Learner's Korean-English Dictionary: The Essential Student Reference

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desertcart.com: Tuttle Learner's Korean-English Dictionary: The Essential Student Reference: 9780804841504: Park, Kyubyong: Books

Review: Very shrewd, wonderful layout- use in tandem with your other fav sources - I've been studying Korean for three months, several hours a day. I noticed this book because I'd studied Chinese using Tuttle(books) and found the approach effective, clever, with a sense of humor. I understand the gripes some people have made about the romanization, but the first thing you learn is to make your own "romanized" sound approximations and take the Google romanizations with a grain of salt, or just dump them. They're often way off. As you speak the language, you'll get a sense of sounds that can't be romanized. Watch some Korean TV content/movies to practice, if you want. And of course, you'll hear different pronunciations of the same word, dialects (or North Korean sounds - the lead young woman in Squid Game) that you won't find with romanizations. Still romanizations are a blunt translation instrument that can get you started. I spent my first month on the alphabet alone, on specific sounds, repeating over and over. I began to realize, okay, this is going to take me a while. But at least I know the alphabet now and can generally read words well enough that I can dictate them back into Google translate if I don't have the korean, and more often than not, I get the word I want. So I mention all this as encouragement- there were a number of frustrated comments citing problems with the romanization. Aside from that, there is a English-Korean key link in the book for those who want to look for english words in this dictionary. In addition, someone said the word yaegi (book) appears on p. 302 as" a word with another meaning". Maybe I didn't see what that reviewer saw. "yaegi" is the shortened form of "iyagi." (see: 얘기, 이야기) Both mean "story." in Papago and Google translate. Maybe this book isn't for everyone. I find it just right, with a good selection for a beginner-intermediate learning fast. Sure, I have about 20 other Korean workbooks I find useful. This one will be one of my favorites, for sure. And PS, I have no connection to this book, the author, Tuttle, or desertcart, no financial gain from praising this book, etc- I just appreciate it when someone comes up with a smart approach.
Review: This dictionary has got hanja! - This dictionary is what I was looking for my Korean language studies, I just received it yesterday and as a more than ten languages student that I am my impression was great: this dictionary gives you the hanja (chinese characters used in Korean) well at least the essential you will not find in any other books. Since the Chinese language has influenced Korean vocabulary so much is better to understand the words with the characters, Korean is like Japanese, a mixed script but in Korean hangeul is enough to communicate so is not NECESSARY to read and write hanja but it is makes you a better Korean language student if you learn them, to do so I recommend "A Guide To Korean Characters Reading And Writing Hangul And Hanja" by Bruce K. Grant which teaches you 1,800 chinese characters and how to write the hangeul letters.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,588,060 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #650 in Alphabet Reference #1,265 in Vocabulary Books #2,611 in Foreign Dictionaries & Thesauruses |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (131) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | Bilingual |
| ISBN-10  | 0804841500 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0804841504 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | April 10, 2012 |
| Publisher  | Tuttle Publishing |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very shrewd, wonderful layout- use in tandem with your other fav sources
*by M***I on October 18, 2021*

I've been studying Korean for three months, several hours a day. I noticed this book because I'd studied Chinese using Tuttle(books) and found the approach effective, clever, with a sense of humor. I understand the gripes some people have made about the romanization, but the first thing you learn is to make your own "romanized" sound approximations and take the Google romanizations with a grain of salt, or just dump them. They're often way off. As you speak the language, you'll get a sense of sounds that can't be romanized. Watch some Korean TV content/movies to practice, if you want. And of course, you'll hear different pronunciations of the same word, dialects (or North Korean sounds - the lead young woman in Squid Game) that you won't find with romanizations. Still romanizations are a blunt translation instrument that can get you started. I spent my first month on the alphabet alone, on specific sounds, repeating over and over. I began to realize, okay, this is going to take me a while. But at least I know the alphabet now and can generally read words well enough that I can dictate them back into Google translate if I don't have the korean, and more often than not, I get the word I want. So I mention all this as encouragement- there were a number of frustrated comments citing problems with the romanization. Aside from that, there is a English-Korean key link in the book for those who want to look for english words in this dictionary. In addition, someone said the word yaegi (book) appears on p. 302 as" a word with another meaning". Maybe I didn't see what that reviewer saw. "yaegi" is the shortened form of "iyagi." (see: 얘기, 이야기) Both mean "story." in Papago and Google translate. Maybe this book isn't for everyone. I find it just right, with a good selection for a beginner-intermediate learning fast. Sure, I have about 20 other Korean workbooks I find useful. This one will be one of my favorites, for sure. And PS, I have no connection to this book, the author, Tuttle, or Amazon, no financial gain from praising this book, etc- I just appreciate it when someone comes up with a smart approach.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This dictionary has got hanja!
*by J***S on March 20, 2013*

This dictionary is what I was looking for my Korean language studies, I just received it yesterday and as a more than ten languages student that I am my impression was great: this dictionary gives you the hanja (chinese characters used in Korean) well at least the essential you will not find in any other books. Since the Chinese language has influenced Korean vocabulary so much is better to understand the words with the characters, Korean is like Japanese, a mixed script but in Korean hangeul is enough to communicate so is not NECESSARY to read and write hanja but it is makes you a better Korean language student if you learn them, to do so I recommend "A Guide To Korean Characters Reading And Writing Hangul And Hanja" by Bruce K. Grant which teaches you 1,800 chinese characters and how to write the hangeul letters.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Only if you know Korean
*by C***T on September 10, 2025*

Not sure about student friendly. Students may not know the Korean word they want to look up. This does not have English to Korean… ONLY Korean to English. I do not like that they used the English alphabet and the Korean words are in the romanized order. I added my own tabs with the Korean alphabet. I do like how the Korean word is a different color than the definition, making it easier to spot the words. I do like the examples , so you can see how it is used. The highlighted notes are great too. It would have been nice to see maybe an English index in the back… for example: see= 보다 then you can look up 보다 and see how to use it. As a student you need that English to Korean to help you find the words that you can’t remember to translate. Hope this helps

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