It's easy to teach yourself Vietnamese!
Complete Vietnamese: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Vietnamese, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing [] with confidence.
Within each of the 18 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues.You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.
Introduction/Pronunciation/I am very pleased to meet you/You are a secretary, aren’t you?/Is Vietnamese difficult?/Do you want to see a photograph of my family?/What day is it tomorrow?/Excuse me, what’s the time?/Do you want to buy anything else?/Do you still work in the hotel?/Are you sure this is the way to the History museum?/Can I see the house?/Do you have a temperature?/Do you know a good restaurant?/Have you seen the weather forecast yet?/Do you want to leave a message?/How long does it take for a letter to get to England?/I hate classical music/Can I fly to Vietnam via Hong Kong?/Do you know the highest mountain in Vietnam?/Revision lesson/Translations of dialogues/Translations of selected texts/Taking it further/Key to the exercises/Vietnamese-English vocabulary/English-Vietnamese vocabulary
What a disappointment! I was looking forward to the publication of this new book with new materials for Vietnamese, but it is exactly the same book as the previous edition(s) of *Teach Yourself Vietnamese*! Same dialogs, same vocabulary lists (even the words missing from the glossary in the previous editions are missing in this edition!). As in the previous editions, the dialogs and recordings follow the usage in the north and there is little mention of the southern forms. Apart from the dialogs now appearing in dark gray boxes and lesson number appearing at the bottom rather than at the side, the only new feature (that I could discover) is a little summary at the end of each lesson where the main grammatical points are summarized. It is a good book to teach yourself, the vocabulary is good (although it favors the North), the grammatical sequences are well thought out and there are lots of exercises to practice (answer key included). If you want to be exposed to the southern dialect (you will need it if you're doing business in Ho Chi Minh City), try Jake Catlett's *Vietnamese for beginners*. *Complete Vietnamese* and *Vietnamese for Beginners* will prepare you to understand basic Vietnamese in the north and south. Catlett's recordings are more natural and will prepare you better for the real Vietnamese you will encounter in the south (and for the speech you will most likely encounter here in the Vietnamese communities in the US). Complete Vietnamese's recordings are not read at natural speed, but the speakers have nice voices and they modulate well.
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Overview
It's easy to teach yourself Vietnamese!
Complete Vietnamese: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Vietnamese, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing [] with confidence.
Within each of the 18 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues.You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this ...