Vitamin Korean
The Vitamin Korean Series is an integrative textbook that helps foreigners to understand Korean and Korean culture and communicate effectively with useful information and knowledge.The book helps Korean learners to develop 4 skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing through various activities and learn language functions necessary in both real-life and professional areas. By doing activities in 4 skills, learners can build reading comprehension, circumstantial awareness and problem-solving strategies. And the wrap-up part at the end of 5 chapters offers TOPIC sample questions, helping learners to prepare for the TOPIC according to their language proficiency.
Vitamin Korean 1 is a beginner level textbook that aims to develop basic Korean communication skills for learners that just began learning Korean. The book introduces Korean characters and helps learners to learn basic Korean grammar and expressions through the real-life situations that learners can encounter in school and daily life.
The book helps learners to develop basic communication skills through activities in 4 skills, listening, reading, speaking, and writing. To improve the learners' reading comprehension, reading activities include texts with different themes and genres. Writing activities help learners express their thoughts using grammar and vocabulary learned from the book. Listening and speaking activities help students improve their circumstantial awareness and problem solving strategies.
The book is designed for learners to develop language proficiency systematically and ion a step-by-step basis as language situations and themes are classified to suit learners' language level and target grammar and vocabulary are presented step by step.
All speaking and writing activities are designed for learners to apply target grammar and vocabulary to real-life tasks, improving task completion skills and context-based communicative skills. Furthermore, TOPIC questions for each question type and workbook adjusted to learner's level and theme, help learners to prepare for the TOPIK more effectively.