Hi everyone.
Perhaps this has been asked before, if so I'm sorry.

Does anybody know any good Japanese textbooks for learning Korean?
Obviously if you go to the amazon.co.jp site and have a look, there are many ranked.. but anyone have any personal recommendations?

If so, I'd like to hear your experiences...

(I'm not looking for English language books.)

韓国語を自由自在に組み立てる本 韓国語中級への扉

Is an awesome reference book. I was looking for something similar myself while I was in Japan and generally the Japanese are bad at language learning in general (or so it seems from their english education experiences) so I browsed a LOT of books to find something actually worth my money.

Most of them were the typical bullshit things you would find if you were half assing it or going on a holiday and decided it might be good to know some korean as an afterthought. 韓国語を自由自在に組み立てる本 is a little less of a textbook (it's also chuukyuu not shokyuu) and instead a reference book. Though, this is where it shines. It gives you 1600 grammar points in Japanese / Korean (how to use) + an example sentence for each one! So, in essence what we have here is a potential Kor-Jap anki grammar deck with approx ~2000 basic vocab? I bought a copy and am game to deck it. If you're keen to buy a copy and give me a hand it'd be forever grateful. This book would make a KILLER deck for someone wanting to nail basic - intermediate korean in a matter of months.

It does require knowledge of how to read hangul but that can be picked up fairly quickly. I also got a DS game called Hangul Zanmai (i think?) and that is kikitori and kakitori training for Hangul. Covers 300 vocab + 700 phrases. So, I'm probably going to start there to get the basics of the basics down and then cram all those grammar points and be home free. From there on out its all vocab vocab vocab.

IF YOU'RE cheap like me you should try the internet lol.
the best thing I found for the conjugations is this:
http://parksguide.blogspot.com/
which is english and korean.

and then you can learn kango more easily/faster probably if you read through this
http://korean.nomaki.jp/site_j/kanji.html

AND IF you just search kannkokugo bunpou or goi or tangoshuu etc then you'll probably something.

oh and there's stuff in this thread:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6969

about getting korean subs for korean movies/dramas if you happen to be into them i'm sure they'll prove helpful

Any suggestions about 台湾華語 (Taiwanese Mandarin) ??
(Same here, not looking for English language books)

しっかり身につく中級韓国語トレーニングブック
I used this one, which was.. okay, I guess. There are lots of example sentences, which is always a good thing if you want to use the 10.000 sentences method.

Don't know if links are OK, so I'll just post the title. 文法から学べる韓国語. It is quite good. Helped me a lot and there is still much to learn from this book.

Also, doesn't necessarily have to be a japanese one, does it? xD
The "Writing Korean for Beginners" is pretty cool too. It covers basic grammer with nice exercises...

Es2Kay Wrote:Any suggestions about 台湾華語 (Taiwanese Mandarin) ??
(Same here, not looking for English language books)

Isn't it supposed to be 國語? I'm pretty sure that they only call it 華語 in the overseas Chinese community, e.g. Singapore and Malaysia. As for books, I am only guessing here, since I've never actually looked into it, but I suspect that any Japanese book that teaches Chinese using Traditional characters would be teaching Taiwanese Mandarin, rather than Mainland. And anyway, the differences don't seem to be that huge.

vonPeterhof Wrote:

Es2Kay Wrote:Any suggestions about 台湾華語 (Taiwanese Mandarin) ??
(Same here, not looking for English language books)

Isn't it supposed to be 國語? I'm pretty sure that they only call it 華語 in the overseas Chinese community, e.g. Singapore and Malaysia. As for books, I am only guessing here, since I've never actually looked into it, but I suspect that any Japanese book that teaches Chinese using Traditional characters would be teaching Taiwanese Mandarin, rather than Mainland. And anyway, the differences don't seem to be that huge.

http://www42.tok2.com/home/taiwan912/index.html
「台湾華語とは、台湾の公用語で、国語とも呼ばれています。」　 There's also 中国官話 which Japanese Facebook uses to define Standard Mandarin Chinese. (I think a lot of people don't know that there's more than one Mandarin) So, 台湾華語, 国語 and 中国官話 can all mean 'Taiwanese Mandarin'

So I decided on making a deck for ハングル三昧DS. I worked out there's about 500 example sentences with audio. I've already nearly done the first 100. Though its time consuming...

Anyone keen on helping? Anyone who knows Japanese, has a DS and a copy of the soft (R4 could work , though for a change I actually bought mine) and a desire for Korean study materials in Japanese お願いします！ It's gonna be a wicked little starter deck.