Collins Essential Korean Dictionary

I love this dictionary, I use it every day in my studies. Being two-way, translation with this dictionary in either direction is possible. Good size font, really clear hangul characters and nice separation between different letter sections makes it easy to find where you need to go (I added the post-it notes). At the start, there is a really useful section with the most important things you might want to learn: rudimentary pronunciation (no mention of rules, just using examples), numbers, days of the week and months. In the middle, between Korean-English and English-Korean, there is a short section on grammar -one half in English for those learning Korean and the other in Korean, for those learning English. I have found everything I've needed thusfar but the number of words isn't exhaustive so I imagine once I advance in my studies, a more extensive dictionary will be required -as you'd expect in any field. But til then, this little chunky book is going to be well-loved and well-used. Recommend!

Having only recently begun to learn Korean, with my focus at first being to learn Hangul, I wasn't sure whether I needed a dictionary at this stage but, after examining a number of them on the Amazon pages, I rather liked the look and content of this Collins version. Dictionaries are never the easiest books to read, because of the sheer amount of text that has to be included on every page, words tend to be on the small side. Obvious really, otherwise even a small dictionary would be 2 or 3 times the size and cost substantially more. This book is no exception to that but I have to say I am delighted that the Hangul is printed in a clear bold font with crisp edges. Even for a learner like me, I was able to see each character clearly, and that is vital. The book is divided into sections, the bulk of the first part is Korean to English, the bulk of the second part is English to Korean. The central section introduces Korean grammar. Although a dictionary is not intended to be a learning tool, as such, there is a wealth of quality information in this book of almost 400 pages. I was really pleased with the quality and the content - and the price on Amazon was particularly good also. I might be buying a dictionary a bit early in my learning process but I am glad I did. I can fully recommend this volume and I know I will be dipping into it a whole lot in the months/years to come.

I am in the process of learning korean and having mastered the hangul alphabet and am now at the stage of trying to understand korean grammer as well as reading simple korean stories. This dictionary is very useful for those times a new word or word root appear's.

Very useful. However, it does still use American romanisation which can make it harder for Britsh English speakers.

Nice compact size, has a great section in the middle, with basic Korean and english grammar rules, with example sentences.

A small, handy dictionary for beginner or intermediate learners of Korean. Not only does it have English-Korean and Korean-English translations, but it also has some sections in the beginning with helpful information about pronunciations, numbers and days of the week.

Got this for a friend who loves Kpop so I figured why not buy a dictionary so she can translate the songs to English, and the dictionary is just as good as I expected, there's two parts, Korean-English and English-Korean, and also (I think) there's pronunciation of the Korean words, but I could be totally wrong I don't know because I don't speak a word of Korean lol. Nevertheless, I'm very happy with the dictionary!

Very helpful

I didn’t expect this dictionary to be this good, it has almost every you need as a beginner-advanced

This is just awesome..... Don't think abd add this to your cart........ This helped me a lot and still doing

100% useful

Completo, para mi que estoy en primer nivel de topic, mi nivel de inglés me parece básico, pero se que me es útil y sirve también gracias

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