Beautiful Short Stories in English and Korean - Bilingual / Dual Language Picture Book for Beginners: With Downloadable MP3 Audio Files Kindle Edition

Stories are short, and sentences are short. If you know 'some' words in Korean (first year student), this is great to practice Korean sentences. The stories are short and engaging. Stories are interesting for kids or adults, still entertaining from an adult point of view. Each story is maybe two or three pages. Key words repeat just enough so that if you know some of the words, you can figure out the rest. Font is big (this is definitely an issue with some Korean texts). In a couple places the black font is hard to see against a dark picture. But that is only a couple spots, and wasn't a big issue. Overall a great asset for a first year Korean learner.

Audio quality of recordings on the website are not good. I think they are done with text to speech, or the production quality is very bard. Hard to hear, sounds like they are compressed, and the reader is just reading the words very plainly without emotion. The audio recordings on the website can be viewed before buying. So you can take a look and judge for yourself. newampersand.com/beautifulstoryThis was a little dissappontinf because I wanted to read the stories then listen to the audio often for listening practice. But the audio quality is too poor.The other mild issue is some sentences seem to go onto the next page from the previous story. Seems like the editor or printer missed this when formatting.The stories themselves seem okay if you want to just use it for reading. Would be good for any beginner but they are simple short kids style stories.

A very pretty book! Nice illustrations. Only giving 4 stars because it was a bit too childish for what was needed. Came up a bit shory in the dual languages....in the adult sense. Couldn't justify the expense and not use it.

For families with people that speak English & Korean, this can be a fun way to share stories together.

I'm learning Korean so it's helpful to have the English translation instead of the romanization.Love the short stories to learn vocabulary and practice my reading skills

I bought this as Christmas gift to a friend. He was starting to learn Korean last year. He said it is a very nice book for his level. The stories are also interesting.

I really liked this book. I’m just learning Korean so this is a great book for beginners, and the illustrations are fun and creative.

Truly love this. Easy to read! 감사합니다!

The childrens stories are nice and simple. The book is bigger than expected and as a beginner korean learner I noticed all the stories use a mix of polite and casual grammar which can be confusing. The words also disappear on certain pages as the colour blends in with the background, this doesnt seem to have been thought through very well. I am using this book to read the korean aloud and practice my spoken korean.

The background pictures on many pages just confuse and obfuscate the text, making it much more difficult to read.I bought it to read Korean text for beginners - but the pictures obliterate the text.Text needs to be clear. It shouldn't be a struggle to differentiate text from the background pictures.I had to return this.

Le potenzialità le ha tutte. Piccole storie, con immagini e scritte chiare per iniziare a leggere il coreano in maniera semplice e divertente. Però ha delle pecche ad iniziare da alcune delle pagine le cui scritte non corrispondono (pezzi di storia A vengono scritti sulla storia B), dagli audio file - si trova nella prima pagina un link per sentire la pronuncia delle storie lette e per prima cosa molti degli audio sono rovinati/distorti quindi fastidiosi da ascoltare per più di una volta e soprattutto funzionano solo via pc (se uno volesse utilizzare per accesso ipad o telefono non funzionano!).Buona la varietà e la differenza nell'uso delle storie e del vocabolario ma per il resto... Grata di aver speso la cifra che ho speso perché purtroppo ad ora non ci rispenderei dei soldi.

Although this book is for younger readers, it is still a valuable asset for beginners. Each line has the translation below rather than the whole story etc. Nice.

Il mio passatempo preferito è studiare lingue nuove, ho da poco iniziato a studiare il koreano e cercavo un libro semplice come introduzione alla letteratura in lingua. Essendo un libro per bambini le storie sono (ovviamente ) infantili ma la struttura bilingue è ottima. Decisamente quello che cercavo.