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| Talk Now! Korean | 
 enlarge | Creator: Topics Entertainment
Publisher: Euro Talk
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.95
New (5) Used (1) from $39.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2295875
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1843520427
EAN: 9781843520429
ASIN: 1843520427
Publication Date: January 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Language Tool July 27, 2008
This CD-Rom was truly helpful to me in learning Korean. Because I have no Korean class or teacher, this was the only way I was able to hear Korean. Through a series of (admittedly cheesy) interactive games, I was able to pick up vocabulary I had absolutely no familiarity with in a short time. All this just by listening and "playing."
Although most of the language games are sound-based games only, the dictionary section of the CD-Rom provides Hangul, spoken sounds, and the English translation. By using this as a supplement to your basic Korean language textbook (I am using ) , this CD-Rom helped me learn the Korean alphabet. I was able to connect sound with symbol, something I had not been able to do before.
It's true that this CD-Rom teaches some words with English roots. However, those are still legitimate Korean words.
This CD-Rom will not help you learn grammar.
All said, this CD-Rom is a great supplement to your main Korean textbook if you are trying to study on your own. It doesn't help with grammar, but it was to me essential for connecting sound to Korean script.
If you like this "immersion" approach and want to learn a lot more Korean with Korean script, try Rosetta Stone.
 For Children ONLY October 15, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really like the idea of learning language interactively via software. It must be a tremendously difficult task to create such software. This software states on its cover "essential words and phrases for absolute beginners".
Yes this is for absolute beginners, but pitched at children. Many of the words are actually english words with koreanisation, ported straight across from our language, eg "son-ge-lasses" for sunglasses. You are paying money for this. Whilst humorous, this is an unintended consequence and not a lesson in genuine Korean.
I finished this in a few hours.
It is at best a novelty item if you are an adult. There is no hangul or explanation of grammar. A no brainer. A nice way to idle away a few hours. Even the speakers are white! Miming genuine korean speakers! What a joke!
In Australia this cost me over $70. So, from this point of view it is a great disappointment, so 2 stars and if I could give 1.5 stars this would be my verdict.
As we reach parity with the US dollar (buy gold!) it will deserve one half more star, but only as something you buy from the postoffice shelf as you wait in a long queue...for $20 dollars AUD.
For the childrens' Christmas stocking only.
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