Making Out in Korean: A Korean Language Phrase Book (Making Out Books)

got it for my friend who is super into kpop and korean culture. I am a native korean speaker and this book is HILARIOUS. and SPOT ON. the book really writes what we use everyday, with focus in relationships. it has a english written out version of pronunciations so even if you don't know how to read korean, you'll be okay.

Nice but could've been longer.

I'm learning a bit of spoken Korean with a Korean friend. We've gone over some videos we found online, a formal book which gives the full grammar and written language and a few other things. This is her favorite book we've looked at so far, as it actually gives words and phrases as they are used by real, live Korean people. Other books are awfully formal. Formality is important in Korean culture, but understanding people, and making yourself understood is probably more important. One of the other reviewers is quite correct: there is a lot of bawdy stuff in here. If you're religious, you are likely to be offended. However, there are a lot of us who want to be able to say such things in Korean, and as such, this is a valuable resource. It is decidedly non-proper, and it warns you when it teaches phrases which are not obviously off color (lots of "hey dude" kind of things involve calling the other fellow something fairly rude to most Koreans). This isn't a phrasebook for board meetings: it's a phrasebook for making new friends in Korean bars. One point against it, which may be just a difficulty with Korean in general: the pronunciation guide is quite messed up. It makes very little sense, and sounds nothing like how Korean people pronounce the words. Probably no big deal if you are doing what I am doing, or if you understand the standard English transliteration of Hangul, but if you're just picking this up casually and hoping to make yourself understood, you'd be better off pointing to the helpful Hangul in the phrasebook than trying to sound the words out by yourself.

I have yet to learn if the phrases from this book are truly effective at disguising the foreigner aspect of book learned Hangul, but I have yet to hand this to someone to browse that is not laughing and combining phrases in fun ways withing in minutes of reading it. The double set of romanization was also helpful to try and understand the pronunciation while reading.

I am a beginner in Korean language. That being said I watch a lot of Korean dramas and listen to a lot of Korean music so I am used to hearing the real Korean pronunciations. The romanization in this book is TERRIBLE. For example the Korean word for WHY (wae) is listed as being pronounced as just WA but it is far closer to the WA sound in WAKE or closer to our word WHEY but they don't say that. If you already know how to read Korean, then this isn't an issue since you can read the hangul for the correct pronunciation. That also being said, I would suggest you learn how to read hangul before attempting to use any of the phrases in this book or you'll probably sound like an idiot using the romanization. It is fun to flip through but I don't think it will be useful to me until I can read the hangul. To be fair it does point out that the English sounds are only approximate to the Korean sounds as there isn't always an exact phonetic match but they still could have done a far better job. In fact I have seen better romanization in other books.

A good book to update practice day by day

Not updated from many years ago, but still good

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interesting even has some love language hahah

Again for ma pal who went over tae the koreas for the work. Now am no sayin he didn’t use it but a Will say he ended up pulling an American fellow so didnae need to chat Korean after all. It was at that moment I decided to stop trying to live my life through ma pals.

Great small book with little pieces of slang, language and cultural information you don't find in ordinary Korean textbooks. More novelty than educational, though.

Easy to understand, small enough to bring with you in your purse or bag, and explains the female and male differences in sayings.

Great book!