My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Korean Language and Culture (My First Words)

Park, Kyubyong; Amen, Henry J.

ISBN 10: 0804849404 / ISBN 13: 9780804849401

Published by Tuttle Publishing, 2017

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

Seller Inventory # DBV.0804849404.G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Korean Language and Culture (My First Words)
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804849404
• ISBN 13: 9780804849401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Padron, Aya
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

"Alphabet books that reinforce the beauty and importance of learning about many languages and cultures." —Booklist

My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words.

The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Korean Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech, to introduce core elements of Korean culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages.

Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Hangul, as well as in its Romanized form.

With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the nearly 80 million people worldwide that speak Korean!

About the Author

Kyubyong Park works at a Korean publishing company that creates practice books for Koreans learning English. Along with Henry J. Amen, IV, he is the author of Korean for Beginners.

Henry J. Amen, IV, is a freelance editor and writer of language learning materials; he studied Korean while working for a publishing company in Seoul for two years. Along with Kyubyong Park, he is the author of Korean for Beginners.

Aya Padron is a freelance artist who works in many media, among them painting and photography. She is the illustrator of Korean for Beginners.