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Learning Vietnamese

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Dive into language learning with this comprehensive introduction to Vietnamese!

This book teaches you to speak, read and write Vietnamese quickly through practical everyday conversations and concise notes on everything from pronunciation and tones to grammar. It also teaches you to read and write the language correctly. All Vietnamese words and sentences are given in the usual forms with phonetic equivalents for easy pronunciation, along with English meanings.

Suitable for classroom use or self-study, the book includes useful notes and explanations on sentence structure, honorific forms, idiomatic expressions, and etiquette dos and don'ts. A useful dictionary of commonly-used Vietnamese words and phrases is provided at the back.

The key features of this book include:

Carefully-designed lessons for beginners with no prior experience
Basic vocabulary and sentence patterns used in daily conversations
Extensive exercises and drills to help you practice what you have learned
Cultural notes to help you understand Vietnamese customs and norms
Free native-speaker audio recordings and printable flash cards available online

This is a complete language learning course for beginners, making it the all-in-one guide that the apps don't offer!

Additional information

ISBN

9780804854467

Dimensions

152 x 229 mm

Book Type

Paperback / softback

Author

Bac Hoai Tran

Author Bio

Bac Hoai Tran holds an M.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics. He has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley since 1992 and is the author of Conversational Vietnamese and Anh Ngu Bao Chi. He has translated many Vietnamese short stories that have appeared in The Stars,The Earth,The River and other anthologies. He is the author of Survival Vietnamese and co-author of Colloquial Vietnamese and Living with English.

Number of Pages

192

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