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Colloquial Vietnamese

The Complete Course for Beginners

Author: Bac Hoai Tran, Ha Minh Nguyen, Tuan Duc Vuong and Que Vuong   Series: Colloquial Series

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Colloquial Vietnamese is easy to use and completely essential. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Vietnamese.

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Colloquial Vietnamese is easy to use and completely essential. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Vietnamese.

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Colloquial Vietnamese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Vietnamese as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Vietnamese in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Vietnamese is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:

  • A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
  • Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar
  • An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises
  • Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations
  • Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Vietnam.
  • An overview of the sounds of Vietnamese

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Vietnamese is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Vietnamese.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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About the Author

Ha Minh Nguyen is a Lecturer in Vietnamese at The University of Texas at Austin.Bac Hoai Tran is a Lecturer in Vietnamese at the University of California, Berkeley.Tuan Duc Vuong has a master of arts from Hanoi University and was a language teacher for 18 years before being forced to leave Vietnam in 1979. He then studied modern language in London and worked as a language lecturer for the Diplomatic language centre of FCO and at SOAS.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
1st July 2015
Edition
2nd
Pages
288
ISBN
9781138950238

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