Elementary Vietnamese, Third Edition: Moi ban noi tieng Viet. Let’s Speak Vietnamese. (Downloadable Audio Included) 3rd Edition by Binh Nhu Ngo (PDF)

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This is a complete Vietnamese language course designed for college or high school–level classroom use or self–study.Since its publication in 1998, Elementary Vietnamese has become the leading book for anyone wishing to learn Vietnamese, and an invaluable resource for people traveling, studying or working in Vietnam. This beginner Vietnamese book was originally developed for classroom use at Harvard University, where it has been field-tested for many years. This revised Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in Vietnamese speech patterns and culture over the past decade.The main focus of Elementary Vietnamese is to assist learners in developing basic skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading the language. It serves a secondary function as a general introduction to modern Vietnamese society and culture, with dialogues, cultural notes, exercises and readings drawn from contemporary life and popular media there. Features of the Third Edition include: Many hours of new downloadable audio recordings by native Vietnamese speakers. Innovative pronunciation drills to help you to achieve near-native pronunciation ability. New usage examples, cultural notes, and exercises along with photos showing life in Vietnam today. A guide for instructors (“New Edition Notes”) detailing changes made in the Third Edition.The downloadable audio recordings which accompany this ebook are of native Vietnamese speakers. These recordings cover:All dialogues, narratives and vocabulary. Grammar and usage notes. Everyday Vietnamese idioms and expressions. A unique set of pronunciation drills to help you speak like a native and . Commonly-used proverbs, to help you speak and understand colloquial Vietnamese.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Overall opinion:This is a solid improvement on earlier editions and now the best Vietnamese language resource on the market, and I’d recommend it for anyone who really wants to become good at the language.That said, anyone who just wants to pick up a few basics for the purposes of travel or casual communication with Vietnamese friends or family would be better served by some of the alternative beginners’ books IMO. Vietnamese is a challenging language and anyone who’s not encountered it before will probably find this book intimidating. The learning curve is indeed very steep, going from nothing to functional at an everyday level in (for the beginner) a *completely* unfamiliar language. However, this level of language is what you would expect a learner in a language like Spanish to have if they were at the elementary level (not the beginner level, note), so in contrast to some other reviewers I would say that the book is setting a realistic target…it’s just a plain fact that it’s much harder for most English speakers to achieve the basics of Vietnamese than European languages…not the author’s fault!Positives:- The speech has been slowed down for many of the conversations compared to the earlier editions, and especially the narratives, which makes listening practice vastly easier.- The grammar and sentence construction explanations are short, simple and to the point. Others have noted that the grammar is crammed into very short explanations in comparison to other languages – well, grammar in Vietnamese is a lot more simple than in other languages, often just a case of adding a word to the sentence in roughly the right place as there are no verb conjugations or anything complex like that. So for most grammar points a very basic explanation is all that’s required.- The extensive audio recordings are very useful for getting the sounds of the language right, especially the unfamiliar consonant and vowel sounds and the tones.- The pronunciation guide is very comprehensive, which is a definite plus! Too many books just throw in a short explanation which is totally insufficient. The technical vocabulary might be a bit much for many readers but the recordings of native speakers running through most (all?) of the possible consonant/vowel/tone combinations is extremely helpful.’Areas for improvement’ (as teachers would call it these days):- The drills are of marginal value, especially with the answer key not included. I repeat another reviewer’s point that it would be much, much better to get rid of the redundant audio recordings of the American woman reading out the grammar explanations (I can read perfectly well for myself, thank you very much) and have native speakers running through the drills so that students can read along, check their answers, or do dictation exercises. For English speakers who don’t have any other Asian languages under their belt the more exposure to spoken Vietnamese you can get the better!- The lessons are far too large to treat as a single unit. The conversations introduce masses of vocabulary – chapter 9, for example, introduces around 50 new vocabulary words along with 14 grammar points and 6 usage explanations, which you would expect to take from a few days to a week for most learners to memorise. For most people the lessons will need to be broken up into several sessions so don’t expect to get through 14 lessons in 14 sittings!- The focus on Harvard University is just weird. I understand that it was designed for a Harvard course and thus the students would find this topic familiar. However for anyone else it’s very strange to be learning about the history and structure of an American university (I’m not an American, even) in a Vietnamese course. Wouldn’t it make more sense to learn about a university in HCM or Hanoi…? Very odd indeed.

⭐I’m startled by the reviews that are on this book. I am Vietnamese-American, and I wasn’t raised speaking Vietnamese. I’m a heritage “speaker” which means that I can understand most of it, but I’m absolutely dreadful at pronouncing Vietnamese words and I didn’t learn to read and write it as a child.I finally buckled down in April to work on my Vietnamese. I looked at the reviews of this version of the book as well as other versions. I had my mother (who is 100% Vietnamese) sit down and try to teach me from what we could see in the Look Inside. We bought the book as a result.Was it a struggle? Oh, absolutely. But my Vietnamese has improved by leaps and bounds.To be successful with this textbook:1) Have a native teacher with you. This book is pretty much incomprehensible to anybody who only speaks English and is trying to teach himself. Bonus points for having a native teacher who speaks the Ha Noi dialect. My parents grew up in South Vietnam (for obvious reasons), so they don’t actually speak the dialect in which this book is written. Most of the time, it’s not a big deal (generally, Sai Gon and Ha Noi dialect speakers can grasp what the other dialect’s words mean), but there were a couple of times where both my parents were surprised by some Vietnamese words which were totally new to them.2) Have a ton of patience. Just because you read the dialogue doesn’t mean that you’ll understand what’s going on in it. The vocab is placed after the dialogue in each chapter, and when they start putting in narratives, the vocab is after those, too.I think that if I didn’t already understand spoken Vietnamese, learning from this book would’ve been substantially more difficult. I guess I’d just advise working at a slow pace. This book is used for Year 1 of Vietnamese at Harvard (the author is a Harvard employee), and anybody learning from it should expect the work to take 9+ months.My mother also used to be a French teacher, so she’s comfortable taking the role of a language teacher. I learned to read, write, and speak French when I was 7. I’ve formally studied French, Spanish, Latin, and Mandarin. I have a degree in Spanish. I’ve learned a smattering of Portuguese and Italian as well, enough to get around. Vietnamese is my eighth written language, I guess, and it’s hard (but still a lot easier than Mandarin). I’m really dreadful at tones.Don’t pick up this textbook and expect to become fluent in Vietnamese in a day. It’s a lengthy process that will take time, dedication, and a lot of studying. If you’re not willing to put in the work, don’t buy it. But if you sincerely wish to learn Vietnamese and are willing to put in a lot of effort, pick it up.

⭐This is the book for me! It is extremely concise and has helped me a great deal. It is highly structured and as an Engineer this suits my mindset and method of learning. It not suit everyone. I particular enjoyed the drills which i put on an .mp3 player. S

⭐It is pretty good. Well structured and the CD helps a lot, especially if you have some kind of very basic understanding of Vietnamese beforehand

⭐Fast delivery, amazing product! 100 percent!

⭐dialogues appear to contain more words than the vocabulary page contains. This is not a problem for me, as my girlfriend is Vietnamese, but I can imagine, that some people will have to spend some time going through a dictionary to fully understand the dialogues

⭐My book arrived as planned – or earlier – very good quality. I am a satisfied customer

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