- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; First Edition edition (3 Nov 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415092051
- ISBN-13: 978-0415092050
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #42 in Books > Languages > By Language > Other Asian Languages > Vietnamese > Dictionaries
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Colloquial Vietnamese is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, this course provides a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Vietnamese. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Colloquial Vietnamese is:
- interactive - with lots of dialogues and exercises for regular practice
- clear - providing concise grammar notes
- practical - with useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- complete - including answer key and special reference section.
By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of situations.
These CDs, recorded by native speakers, are an invaluable component of the Colloquial course. They feature dialogues and texts from the book, and lots of interactive exercises to help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I disagree with an earlier posted negative review of this material. I feel that this book and 2 CD set is excellent. I have searched for many books to help me learn to communicate with my wife's family in Vietnamese in my annual visit to Vietnam. This is by far the most useful. This material is not designed for the traveller who wants to learn a phrase or two. It is designed for someone who truly wishes to learn to communicate in Vietnamese. The book and CD force you to think and learn to listen in order to comprehend real conversational Vietnamese. In real life, Vietnamese people speak quickly. One will never learn to listen and speak this language unless you are given a strong push. That is what this material does. This book and CD set will make you work harder, but in the end will give you practical speaking and listening abilities. Expect to make a serious time investment in learning this language. As an additional comment, except for a fortunate few, learning any language likely requires real life experience coupled with this material. The material teaches terms and grammar from the north. This is the official version of the language of the country and is understood everywhere.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This course is one of those rare things in that it actually teaches the language to a very good level. Two Cd's have a total of 17 lessons with Tone practise at the start of each lesson. Vietnamese has 6 tones which MUST be learned to a high level and this course gives plenty of practise. There are a large number of quite lengthy dialogs to study the language in some detail and role playing to get the student to hear,think,and speak in the language from the very start. Main difficulty here is hearing is easier than speaking as Vietnamese words are all spoken seperately with their own tone,so to western ears it seems "stilted" the tones are also very subtle and may not be heard at first listening so a degree of serious study is required here.
The recordings are all by native speakers so you hear the language as it is spoken in Vietnam. The course pushes the student to actually LEARN the language as opposed to just picking up a phrase or two so I think it would suit a serious linguist or someone who wants to have an in-depth knowledge of a difficult language. At the end of this course you should be able to read sections (if not all) of a vietnamese newspaper with some degree of accuracy.
My only critique concerns the CD's as they appear to have been recorded continuous so you can't pause or re-wind/fast forward to each lesson making finding you place annoying,hence the 4 stars. In closing this is an excellent intro to a difficult language and well worth the investment of time and effort.
The recordings are all by native speakers so you hear the language as it is spoken in Vietnam. The course pushes the student to actually LEARN the language as opposed to just picking up a phrase or two so I think it would suit a serious linguist or someone who wants to have an in-depth knowledge of a difficult language. At the end of this course you should be able to read sections (if not all) of a vietnamese newspaper with some degree of accuracy.
My only critique concerns the CD's as they appear to have been recorded continuous so you can't pause or re-wind/fast forward to each lesson making finding you place annoying,hence the 4 stars. In closing this is an excellent intro to a difficult language and well worth the investment of time and effort.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The critical review below is spot on. Apart from a cursory overview of the six tones, there is no systematic explanation of Vietnamese pronunciation whatever. I would have liked the tape to go through the sound of every Vietnamese vowel and consonant. But instead it just plunged straight into complicated dialogues from which you're expected to pick it all up.
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By the way, I wouldn't tar the whole Routledge Colloquial series with the same brush. I've found the Italian and German volumes quite useful. Both of them start out with the kind of systematic exposition of pronunciation that's missing here. I've never actually learnt a language from one though.
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Good Vietnamese textbook
VIetnamese language primers are comparatively thin on the ground. Fortunately this book is well up to the task. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Chadwick
Getting there at last!
This is the best book I have yet found for help in speaking Vietnamese - streets ahead of the 'Teach Yourself' by Dana Healy - because it is infinitely simpler and more practical;... Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by Susan Platt
Almost...just what you need
Further to the other reviews here, I agree that there is not enough discussion of pronunciation. But I feel that since the tones are such a key area, and probably the main area of... Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2005 by p m howard
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