My First Book of Korean Words
An ABC Rhyming Book
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
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 Hangeul, 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!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Simple couplets introduce 26 Korean words (shown in both English and Hangeul characters) in this engaging alphabetical introduction to the language. Since English letters don't always have Korean equivalents, the authors provide Korean versions of English words for those letters: "V is for vegetables,/ the yachae on my plate./ Cabbage, carrot, zucchini / dessert has to wait" ("Korean doesn't have a V sound, but Korea has plenty of vegetables," reads an aside). Padr n's atmospheric illustrations center on a cherubic Korean girl, her family, and her friends, as they demonstrate the popularity of chukgu (soccer), gimchi (aka kimchi), tae kwon do, and more. Ages 4 8.
