Essential Korean Idioms: 300 Idioms to Upgrade Your Korean PDF

Essential Korean Idioms: 300 Idioms to Upgrade Your Korean PDF free download – It was created to provide foreign learners of Korean with a helpful resource on idioms. Despite how frequently idioms are used in everyday speech in Korean, few learning materials have been produced to teach such idioms to foreign learners of the language. In our many years teaching Korean in the United States, we often found students struggling to familiarize themselves with idioms and use them properly in sentences and in speech. With an eye to such challenges, we developed teaching materials that would help our students easily learn and understand Korean idioms. This book collects and expands on the actual materials we used to great effect in our classes, with additional idioms included to reflect the guidelines outlined in the National Institute of Korean Language’s curricular standards for Korean language education. Designed for classroom use as well as individual study, this book can be readily used by anyone needing instruction in Korean idioms.

Using the dialogue at the beginning of each chapter, students can get a sense of how specific idioms are actually used in daily speech and try to guess their literal meaning. As students are typically interested not only in the figurative meaning of idiomatic expressions but also the literal meaning of the expression’s individual elements, this is an important first step, particularly for English-speaking learners of Korean. The next section provides definitions in Korean and English for each idiom. Students can compare these with the meanings they guessed at beforehand, a process that will help them to better remember the right definitions. Once students have understood what the idioms mean, they can use the next section, which provides practice questions, to test their retention. The next and final section outlines an interview activity that students can complete to get practice using the idiom in actual conversation and to hear and observe how it is used by others. The development of this book was rooted in large part in our understanding of the importance of this kind of step-by-step process in learning idioms properly. For this reason, it not only benefits learners having difficulty using the idioms they learn but is also a valuable resource for discovering diverse, fun ways to study Korean.