Jia and Coco's Korean Journey 1. Sound Play

지아와 코코의 한국어 여행 1. 소리 여행

Author: 이명숙

Jia and Coco's Korean Language Journey — Book 1: Starting with Sounds With the K-pop and Hallyu wave sweeping the world, more people than ever want to learn Korean. But for true beginners — those who don't yet know the sounds or the letters — books made just for them are still hard to find. Most textbooks assume learners already have some grasp of Hangul. Jia and Coco's Korean Language Journey was created for exactly that starting point. Author Lee Myeong-suk, a former elementary school teacher who taught Hangul firsthand in the classroom, carefully selected words that let learners pick up the sounds of Korean consonants and vowels naturally. Starting from familiar everyday words like mo-ja (hat), ba-ji (pants), gu-du (shoes), u-yu (milk), o-i (cucumber), na-mu (tree), na-bi (butterfly), and an-nyeong (hello), the book builds step by step toward short, simple sentences. 📚 Book Structure Word Reading — Learn sounds and letters together through word-card format Word Cards — Pictures and words placed side by side to aid visual memory Sentence Reading — Read short sentences built from the words just learned, such as "지아예요. / 지아 와요." (This is Jia. / Jia is coming.) ✨ Recommended For K-pop and Hallyu fans — start your Korean journey the right way, with sound first Korean beginners — even without knowing the letters, the pictures guide the way Multicultural families — a first book to grow close to Hangul together at home Korean language classrooms — ready to use as supplementary teaching material 💡 Key Features Picture-centered design — rich illustrations make word and sentence meaning intuitive Repetition-based structure — a three-step cycle of Word Reading → Word Cards → Sentence Reading Classroom-tested content — learning order and expressions verified directly in elementary classrooms First in the series — Book 1, the starting point of the 20-volume Jia and Coco's Korean Language Journey