Colloquial Vietnamese: The Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Tuan Duc Vuong, John Moore

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Series: Colloquial Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 2
Introduction
......Page 3
1.The alphabet and sound system......Page 8
2.Arriving in Hanoi......Page 10
3.Going to the hotel......Page 16
4.Checking in at the hotel......Page 23
5.Talking about your stay in Hanoi
......Page 29
6.Settling into the hotel
......Page 35
7.Making contact
......Page 41
8.Telling someone about vourself
......Page 48
9.An invitation
......Page 53
10.Calling on some friends
......Page 60
11.Talking about the family
......Page 65
12.A shopping trip
......Page 72
13.At the restaurant
......Page 80
14.Getting to know someone
......Page 87
15.Vietnamese customs
......Page 93
16.Talking business
......Page 100
17.Travelling around
......Page 107
Grammar summary
......Page 115
Key to exercises
......Page 127
Vietnamese-English Glossary
......Page 147
English-Vietnamese
glossary......Page 154

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Вьетнамский язык;