I'm learning Korean. To help myself practice, and to study, I'm creating these pages. Below is a series of pages which describe the vocabulary and grammatical structures I have learned so far.

Vocab from Easy Korean for Foreigners

This is vocabulary I studied in Easy Korean for Foreigners, a book series I bought in Seoul. I think this series is really good for beginners.

Lesson 1 Vocabulary
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Lesson 3 Vocabulary
Lesson 4 Vocabulary
Lesson 5 Vocabulary
Lesson 6 Vocabulary
Lesson 7 Vocabulary
Lesson 8 Vocabulary
Lesson 9 Vocabulary
Lesson 10 Vocabulary
Lesson 11 Vocabulary
Lesson 12 Vocabulary
Lesson 13 Vocabulary
Lesson 14 Vocabulary
Lesson 15 Vocabulary
Lesson 16 Vocabulary
Lesson 17 Vocabulary
Lesson 18 Vocabulary
Lesson 19 Vocabulary
Lesson 20 Vocabulary

Vocab from Introductory Course in Korean

Vocab from Fred Lukoff's books. These are also really good, because they have excellent explanations of the grammar, written in English. Studying these two book series together is, I find, very effective.

Lesson 1 Vocabulary
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Lesson 3 Vocabulary
Lesson 4 Vocabulary

Practical Vocabulary

Not from a book I'm studying, this vocabulary consists of words I learned by needing to use (or translate) them.

Aug 2004 Vocabulary
Jan 2005 Vocabulary


Grammatical Structures

Present tense

For the technically minded, here's the perl script I use to create the vocabluary pages. The source input is a text file containing the Korean and Enlish, encoded in UTF-8. At some point, I may put up a definition of the input files; but for now, a sample is linked below. If it looks funky when you click on it, set your browser to UTF-8 encoding from the View menu...

The script was a quick hack and can be cleaned up by adding a subroutine to print the vocab table HTML. When I have use to generalize the table code, I'll get to that...