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1. Teach Yourself Vietnamese, Complete Course by Dana
Healy, Book + Audio CD, McGraw-Hill
Begins with the basics and gradually promotes the
student to a level of smooth and confident
communication, including: Up-to-date, graded interactive
dialogues; Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and
exercises; Step-by-step guide to pronunciation;
Practical vocabulary; Regular and irregular verb tables;
Plenty of practice exercises and answers;
Self-assessment quizzes to test progress; Bilingual
glossary.
2. Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners (3 Cassettes +
Book, Paperback: 401 pages) by Nguyen Long, Marybeth
Clark, Nguyen Bich Thuan, Publisher: Southeast Asia
Publications
Designed for English speakers to learn to speak and
understand Vietnamese. It is designed primarily for
classroom use at the secondary and tertiary education
level for beginners without Vietnamese language
background. The most widely used classroom text. Also
appropriate for self-study.3. Elementary
Vietnamese by Binh Nhu, Ph.D. Ngo, Hardcover: 288 pages,
Publisher: Tuttle
Based on material developed by the author for his course
at Harvard University, Elementary Vietnamese is a
complete language course designed for either self-study
or college-level classroom use. The text, consisting of
two parts, includes a pronunciation guide and fourteen
short-dialogue lessons. The pronunciation guide
describes Vietnamese sounds and differences between the
Hanoi and Saigon dialects. Examples of Vietnamese
advertisements and newspapers are used throughout the
lessons. Also included is a Vietnamese-English glossary
and an English-Vietnamese glossary.
4. Intermediate Spoken Vietnamese (Language Texts) by
Franklin Huffman, Tran Trong Hai, Publisher: Cornell
Univ Southeast Asia
A must have for intermediate students of Vietnamese.
5. Vietnamese: A Language Map by Kristine K.
Kershul, Paperback, Publisher: Bilingual Books
Contains over 1,000 of the most important words and
phrases a traveler will need. When you are sitting in
that charming outdoor café and want to order but can’t
decipher the menu, when you need a telephone, a post
office or want to ask the price of a postcard.
6. The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Vietnamese
by Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Paperback:
227 pages, Publisher: Oxford University Press
Easy to comprehend and the pictures are well done. For
beginner - intermediate levels.
7. NTC's Vietnamese-English Dictionary by Dinh-hoa
Nguyen, Paperback: 752 pages, McGraw-Hill
This is very good dictionary if you have a basic
understanding of the Vietnamese language. Includes
50,000 definitions and pronunciation tones for northern,
central, and southern parts of Vietnam.
8. Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Vietnamese/
English, English, Vietnamese
This dictionary has the benefit of both northern and
southern pronunciation, which is rare due to the fact
that most textbooks and dictionaries only give the
northern pronunciation. The definitions are clear, and
provide a wide range of options for translation. This is
good, because languages aren't just word codes, and all
these options help to give the true meaning of a word.
In the Vietnamese-English part, the entries are
extensive and offer cultural and grammatical insights.
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