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While it looks like it is for beginners, a beginner would run into issues. I actually got so annoyed that I didn't flip all the way through it before starting the return. Teaches banmal (Informal Korean) so you can't actually use any of the sentences in it (that I saw at least) unless you want to be rude. This is basically teaching the reader to use that level of politeness to everyone including total strangers. If you want to speak to people that you don't already know well, look for something that teaches the 요(yo) form, which is the basic level of politeness used in every day language. Korean from zero & talk to me in Korean both teach that form. There's also the "-mnida" which is usually way too formal for everyday use. (& it's harder to conjugate the verbs). Some people do prefer learning it but I don't. Back to this book: if emphasizes romanization (English spelling of Korean words) at IMO the expense of learning the Korean spelling. (Romanization is fine in moderation in my opinion but that was bad ). It also assumes too much for example within a couple pages of learning the character it says to "write the missing characters & the batchim" without explaining what is a batchim (characters on the bottom of a syllable)