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Title: There are better books out there
Review: It is really hard to find good books on Korean in the States. Two books I have found that are excellent are Korean Through English 1 and Speaking Korean 1. KTE1 has cassettes and is really good for the absolute beginner. It teaches how to read and write Hangul using the cassettes for pronunciation, then it teaches a lot of useful vocabulary and sentence structures. It is a little weak on grammar. Speaking Korean has no cassettes so learning to read or write Hangul from it is almost impossible unless you have a Phd in linguistics. It does explain grammar very well and it has lots of drills. After finishing this book you should be able to speak Korean quite well. Both of these books are printed by Hollym International Corp of Elizabeth, New Jersey but they are very difficult to find in the States.
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