9-Year-Old’s Dictionaries Bundle (마음 사전 + 느낌 사전)

9-Year-Old’s Dictionaries are picture dictionaries by the beloved writer-cum-poet, 박성우(Sungwoo Park). Each book describes as many as 80 Korean words related to emotions and experiences respectively with adorable illustrations and concise sentences written from the perspective of a 9-year-old. The sentences suggested in the book let you paint a clear picture of situations where a specific emotion or sense is evoked. For that reason, these books help you learn those emotion and sense-related words that are often lost in translation as well as associate the words with their meanings much more easily.

아홉 살 마음 사전 is focused on words for feelings and emotions. The book will help you to pick up Korean words describing emotions easier, which are not only hard to understand but also tricky to know when and where to use them properly.

The book covers emotions of various complexity from a very simple one such as ‘좋다(to feel good) to a fairly complicated one like ‘야속하다(to be upset at somebody’s cold/callous attitude or behavior)’. Along with the definition of each word, it provides a lot of Korean sentences for describing each word. This is why we highly recommend this book to all Korean learners regardless of their level, as this books makes a good reading material as well as a must-have vocabulary book.

Unlike 아홉 살 마음 사전, which is more concentrated on words for emotions, 아홉 살 느낌 사전 (A 9-Year-Old’s Dictionary of Experiences) is dedicated to words related to experiences obtained through your five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. 

This book incorporates adjectives like “가렵다(to be itchy)”, “묵직하다(to be fairly heavy but not to the extent of being unbearable)” and “쑤시다(to feel painful as if pricked with a thick needle)” and many more. As you can tell by these words, many Korean adjectives carry complicated meanings which makes hard for Korean learners to completely understand them. This book will help you to acquire the words just like in a way a native Korean kid does.

In the two books, the words are listed in the sequence of Hangeul just like a dictionary. So, you don’t have to go through them from start to finish. You can open any page and start with the word that you find there.

As each word is defined and described in Korean, there are still a bunch of sentences and expressions to study even if you already know the word.

With this bundle, broaden your Korean vocabulary and clear the limitations of describing your experiences in Korean!