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• Cover
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Preface: Setting the Scene
• Chapter 1: Welcome to Korean!
• An Introduction to Korean and the Korean Spirit
• Korean Style: Say what?
• Chapter 2: Korean Characters
• An Introduction to the Korean Characters and Their Pronunciation
• Korean Style: Korean computer keyboards
• Chapter 3: Reading and Pronouncing Korean Words
• Review of the Characters and Some Additional Pronunciation Rules
• Korean Style: Do you like phlegm??
• Chapter 4: I You Love
• Five Basic Features of Korean: Word Order, Particles, Conjugation, Honorifics, and Omissions and Plurals
• Korean Style: You must listen to Korean from the end.
• Chapter 5: My Mother Is Korean, and My Father Is American
• All About Particles
• Korean Style: Particle play
• Chapter 6: Learn, Learned, Learning
• Regular Conjugation Patterns
• Korean Style: Will you marry with me?
• Chapter 7: Go, Went, Going
• Irregular Conjugation Patterns
• Korean Style: Can I bury something?
• Chapter 8: My Mother Loves Me
• Honorific Endings and Words
• Korean Style: Konglish (Korean English)
• Chapter 9: Hello?
• What to Say in Greeting, in Parting, and in Thanks
• Korean Style: Can Koreans see things over the phone?
• Chapter 10: I, You, We… Do I Know You?
• Personal Pronouns and How to Address Strangers
• Korean Style: Differences between 아저씨 and 오빠, 아줌마 and 아가씨
• Chapter 11: What’s This?
• Demonstrative Pronouns and How to Ask Simple Questions
• Korean Style: Our wife?
• Chapter 12: To Be, or Not To Be?
• All About the Verb “To Be”
• Korean Style: Yes, I can’t?
• Chapter 13: My Name Is Hal
• Introducing Yourself and Holding Simple Conversations
• Korean Style: Korean family names and given names
• Chapter 14: Father, Mother, Brother, Sister…
• Korean Nouns and Terms for Family Members
• Korean Style: My father enters his bag??
• Chapter 15: I Don’t Want to Eat
• Advanced Pronunciation Rules
• Korean Style: Tongue twisters
• Chapter 16: Excuse Me, Where’s the Restroom?
• Interrogatives: When and Where
• Korean Style: Snow water, or eye water?
• Chapter 17: How’s Korea?
• Interrogatives: How and Why, Reasons and Causes
• Korean Style: Korean blind dates
• Chapter 18: I’m from the U.S.
• Verb Tenses: Past, Progressive, and Future
• Korean Style: How to multiply your Korean vocabulary
• Chapter 19: Have You Ever Seen a Korean Movie?
• Turning Verbs and Adjectives into Noun Modifi ers
• Korean Style: The disaster of misunderstanding the word 시원하다
• Chapter 20: I Couldn’t Study So Much
• Negations
• Korean Style: Word relay
• Chapter 21: I Should Talk to My Wife First
• Suggestion, Supposition, Obligation, and Prohibition
• Korean Style: Korean proverbs
• Chapter 22: Canada Is Larger than the U.S.
• Special Adverbs
• Korean Style: He’s an owl.
• Chapter 23: One, Two, Three…
• Counting: Numbers and Counting Units
• Korean Style: The three-six-nine game
• Chapter 24: How Much Is This?
• How to Shop
• Korean Style: Korean euphemisms
• Chapter 25: What Time Is It?
• Asking and Telling Time and How Many
• Korean Style: A two-year-old newborn!? Only in Korea!
• Chapter 26: Today Is August 15
• Days, Dates, and Seasons
• Korean Style: Which receives deliveries first: floor 2 or basement level 2?
• Chapter 27: I Wish You Would Come Back to Korea Someday
• Wanting and Wishing
• Korean Style: Crossword puzzle
• Appendix: Grammar Terms
• Korean-English Glossary
• English-Korean Glossary