Korean-English/English-Korean Dictionary & Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary and Phrasebook)

pages 21 to 86 are Korean-English, 87-166 are English-Korean. The rest of the book to page 311 has a lot of useful information on the grammar, word endings, colors, numbers, etc. so there is a lot of good things and overall I am glad I got it. However there are a few negatives, hence the lower rating.The biggest negative for me is the size of the Korean writing. Korean letters aren’t supposed to be able to fit within the same line size as the English letters. And yet they try their best to do that, to the point that my 20/25 eyes need a magnifying glass to read some of the more complicated letters, and even then the symbols are so crowded together they are unreadable.Otherwise I would fault them for organization, especially in the last part, with the grammar, etc. I say that not knowing a good solution, but I think it could be better than it is. It is a restricted vocabulary to be sure, but that is to be expected, but some words can be used as different parts of speech, and frequently they only give one.This is a great supplement to my other Korean learning tools, namely a class and the Duolingo app.

This dictionary shows Korean characters on the left and the English translation on the right. If you don't understand the written Korean character, it is worthless.

I consider myself an intermediate learner of the Korean language. This book exceeded my expectations! Not only does it give you TONS of words to learn but it also helps you with Korean sentence structure. It explains any and everything you need to know. BUY THIS BOOK! And no, you do not need to be an advanced learner to benefit from this book.

I'm currently an exchange student studying at SNU. I purchased multiple english-korean/korean-english dictionaries before coming here, and of them all this is by far the best. Although it doesn't have all the words possible in the actual dictionary part, the middle section with various particles and conjugations is incredibly helpful, as is the phrasebook/cultural segment towards the end. It's super helpful when I need to translate Korean to English and vice versa, or simply need to figure out how to correctly phrase a sentence, or to even memorize short lines I need to know before going out and interacting with Koreans. Buy this book! It's amazing.

For awhile I thought I needed a comprehensive dictionary to help with learning Korean but this book gave more than the typical dictionary. The section at the end with conjugations and suffixes is the main reason I bought this book. I like to read through it when I need to review. The dictionary enteries are limited but I haven't had a problem yet with finding a word.

This book is a great resource.I own TONS of Korean language learning books. This is one that I carry around with me.It is the ONLY book so far that has a section called "Sentence endings and Helping verbs"This is CRITICAL to understand how to make sentences...and once you learn an ending, you can practice it with different verbs.

This has not only a very useful dictionary but also many useful phrases for a variety of purposes. Great for travelers!

I highly recommend this to anyone visiting or living in Korea. It won't teach you Hangul (Korean) or English but it will get you by. Neat little book (good size by the way) and I highly recommend it,

Really good grammar sections, and a great selection of modern words in the dictionary. One small criticism is that the Hangeul is all in bold and sometimes this makes it hard to read, have had to rely on the romanization to tell what some of it said!I'm using this more as a pocket-sized grammar summary and dictionary, than as a phrasebook.

Es un libro muy útil, más allá de la parte de diccionario, incluye una sección de gramática bastante útil, además de que trae vocabulario dividido en diferentes ambientes, como puede ser de comida, empleo, etc.

Bon et très pratique MAIS ... certains caractères Hangul ne sont pas lisibles notamment dans la deuxième partie du livre du fait de la taille de la police utilisée : cela produit de gros pâtés noirs. Bien que le livre corresponde à mes attentes je retire 1 étoiles pour cela. Ceci étant la deuxième partie (grammaire, ...) est vraiment très pratique.