Pleasant Korean Grammar - Intermediate/Advanced

Description of the book provided by the publisher:

1- This book is a self-study Korean grammar book for intermediate and advanced level learners.
2- This book helps self-taught learners to gain a correct understanding of grammatical forms and meanings and make sentences by themselves without difficulty.
3- This book selected most essential points in grammar at the intermediate and advanced levels to enable them a step-by-step learning.
4- The items of grammar were selected based on the grammar items included in the existing Korean grammar text book and the list of grammar to learn at the intermediate and advanced levels open to the public for taking TOPIK II.
5- This book compiles grammar points with suitable examples of conversation to help learners engaging in actual situations, far for simply arranging a series of grammatical points.
6 -In this book, translation is added to the basic explanation of grammar facilitate learners' understanding.
7- There is an illustration of the change of grammatical forms and usage in every item so that learners can view the main points of the grammar at a glance.
8- Some matters that need to be known including transformational-ge grammar, exceptions and cautions are included for each grammar point.
9- Examples are presented for each form of usage for learners to have sense of the meaning of grammar points and give easy guidance to he make their own sentences out of the target grammar point.
10- Exercises are presented by stages from simple forms to the patterns of to help learners to gradually advance their grammar skills.
11- The answer sheet for the exercises is provided so that learners can find to be self-taught.

This book is a self-study Korean grammar book at an intermediate and advanced level that follows the beginner level book "Fun Basic Korean Grammar" published by Dongyang Books. This newly published book intends to make Korean grammar fun and easy so that learners can self-study without any guidance of language instructors at a classroom-environment. As the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) is divided into TOPIKI for beginners and TOPIKI for intermediate and advanced learners, this book compiles essential grammar points for learners of intermediate and advanced levels to help them prepare for the test easier.

Most of the Korean grammar books that have been recently published are simply arranging complicated grammar, taking the form of grammar dictionary, and as a result learners find it rather difficult to be self-taught. This book aims to produce the most fundamental and easiest grammar book to learn with more advanced contents following the book for beginners. It lays out diverse expressions and sentence patterns that learners can study and apply for themselves, far from simple arrangement of complicated grammar points in other grammar books. In addition, the book divides essential intermediate and advanced level grammar points for learners to study step by step, with the inclusion of diverse patterns of examples and exercises. What is more, differentiated exercises for the advanced level make it possible for learners to get used to typical patterns of TOPIK and in-depth study for themselves to help them engage in practical conversations.