{"id":18129,"date":"2012-09-10T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=18129"},"modified":"2014-05-15T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:31:02","slug":"my-first-book-of-korean-words-an-abc-rhyming-book-by-henry-j-amen-iv-and-kyubyong-park-illustrated-by-aya-padron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/my-first-book-of-korean-words-an-abc-rhyming-book-by-henry-j-amen-iv-and-kyubyong-park-illustrated-by-aya-padron\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book by Henry J. Amen IV and Kyubyong Park, illustrated by Aya Padr\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"My<\/a>No matter where you’ve been hiding, someone<\/em>\u00a0has been able to infiltrate your defenses and made you watch the freakishly popular “Gangnam Style<\/a>” by\u00a0PSY<\/a>\u00a0(in Korean, \uc2f8\uc774, although apparently it’s\u00a0short for ‘psycho’). The South Korean\u00a0singer (educated at Boston University and Berklee College of Music, I must add) is an international mega-superstar-in-the-making; his viral prominence has produced more than enough “Gangnam” spin-offs to keep you YouTube-ing for days. [If you need a shortcut, the best is “Umma Gangnam Style<\/a>.” Really.<\/em>]\n

So\u00a0what does all that have to do with this kiddie book? Timing, of course! It’s always about the timing!<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you the number of times people have asked me ‘what’s he saying?’ in spite of my rather rusty Korean. [Pretty good answer here<\/a>, by the way. Even better answer here<\/a>.] So … given this unexpected interest in Korean, why not start teaching the younger ones earlier than later with this clever, playful, adorably illustrated hybrid of Korean and English?<\/p>\n

“The goals of\u00a0My First Korean Words<\/em> are multiple,” the informative “Preface” explains, “… to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech; to introduce core elements of Korean culture; to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds, and to show how, through cultural importation, a single world can be shared between languages.”<\/p>\n

“A is for achim<\/em>,” or breakfast, with comes with a direct question for the young reader, “Would you eat rice and veggies for breakfast” as many Koreans do? “E is for\u00a0echwi,<\/em>” the sound of a Korean sneeze, with a note contrasting it with “achoo!” in English. “L is for lamb,” which is\u00a0yang<\/em> in Korean, but no ”l’-sound exists in the Korean language, just as “Q is for queen,” or\u00a0wangbi<\/em> in Korean, which comes with the gentle question, “Did you guess that the Korean language doesn’t have a Q sound?” “R is for roket<\/em>,” which clearly borrows from the English “rocket.”<\/p>\n

Most serendipitously, “N is for nolda<\/em>,<\/em>” which means “I play”; yes, various conjugations of the Korean word for ‘to play’ gets oft-repeated throughout that addictive video\u00a0\u2013 just one more reason to listen again! If you find you need to do more deciphering, the same trio you see here of editor Amen\/language software creator Park\/artist Padr\u00f3n\u00a0also wrote the highly-rated\u00a0Korean for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Korean<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>for the determined Korean language seeker. Might be high time to order my own copy … if nothing else, to get beyond “Gangnam Style”!<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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