Study Abroad in Korea prepares students for study in Korean by providing the reader with key expressions and guidance on certain aspects of culture and language idiosyncratic to Korea, focusing on everyday scenarios. Key features include: Key expressions throughout the book, providing practical linguistic knowledge with jargon-free explanations.Exposes readers to contextualised, real-life situations through dialogues between two characters, one of whom is bilingual and teaching in Korea; the other is a student studying abroad.Discussions of important historical events and social issues accompany relevant chapters.Features a variety of dialects and varieties of spoken Korean to help students acclimatise to the diverse types of spoken Korean they will encounter.Aimed at those who possess a basic knowledge of Korean who wish to develop their linguistic knowledge in preparation for relocation to Korea, this book is ideal for lower-intermediate and A2-level students of Korean or for self-study.
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Study Abroad in Korea prepares students for study in Korean by providing the reader with key expressions and guidance on certain aspects of culture and language idiosyncratic to Korea, focusing on everyday scenarios.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Essential Korean StructureChapter 1: Korean Speaking StylesIntroductionInteractional DynamicsAddress Terms for Different RelationshipsAddress terms shift as relationships shiftFirst-person pronoun and second-person pronounsSpeech styles in Korean: half-talk (반말) vs. yo-form (존대말)Chapter 2: Structural Characteristics of KoreanNominal ParticlesVerbal particles or endingsChapter 3: Korean VerbsA Brief Introduction to Korean VerbsThe Magic of 하다 VerbsPart II: Korean InteractionsIntroductionChapter 4: Dining OutChapter 5: Public TransportationChapter 6: Where Do You Live?Chapter 7: Education and ExaminationChapter 8: Going to the CinemaChapter 9: Going to the MartChapter 10: BunsikChapter 11: Korean DiasporaChapter 12: Shopping at Namdaemun and DongdaemunChapter 13: K-BeautyChapter 14: Seoul TourChapter 15: The DMZChapter 16: Visiting a HospitalChapter 17: K-PopChapter 18 JeonjuChapter 19: BusanChapter 20: GwangjuChapter 21: Jeju IslandChapter 22: Picnicking on Bukhansan Chapter 23 Foreigners in KoreaDialogue TranslationsSelected BibliographyIndex
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ISBN
9780367424244
Publisert
2020-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
210

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Biographical note

Jieun Kiaer is Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She is interested in translanguaging pedagogy and is currently working on the use of social media and digital app technology in language learning. She has published widely on Korean language and linguistics in English. Kiaer is the series editor for Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation.