Elementary Vietnamese

Elementary Vietnamese is a beginner Vietnamese book originally developed for classroom use at Harvard University. Revised and updated, it reflects recent developments in Vietnamese speech patterns and culture. A complete Vietnamese language course designed for first-year college students or dedicated self-study learners,  Elementary Vietnamese features extensive MP3 audio recordings by native speakers on an enclosed CD to ensure appropriate pronunciation and understanding of the spoken language.

“"This is a superbly constructed textbook written by an experienced teacher for the benefits of beginning learners of Vietnamese...Professor Ngo is to be congratulated on his outstanding achievement; he has indeed produced a powerful tool in the area of learning resources for Southeast Asian languages." -- Nguyen Dinh-Hoa, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale”

"This is a superbly constructed textbook written by an experienced teacher for the benefits of beginning learners of Vietnamese…Professor Ngo is to be congratulated on his outstanding achievement; he has indeed produced a powerful tool in the area of learning resources for Southeast Asian languages." --Nguyen Dinh-Hoa, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"…It comes with a mp3 CD, which is super important because Vietnamese is a tonal language and the tones can be subtle to untrained ears." --I'm Not the Nanny blog

Dr. Binh Nhu Ngo is the Director of the Vietnamese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and has been teaching Vietnamese there since 1992. He was born and educated in Hanoi and earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has taught Vietnamese and linguistics at Moscow University, and since 1992 he has taught at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) and at a number of universities and colleges in the United States. He has served as the Vice-President of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) and represents Harvard University at the Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA). His other books include Speak & Read Vietnamese (Simon & Schuster) and Continuing Vietnamese (Tuttle).

Elementary Vietnamese is a beginner Vietnamese book originally developed for classroom use at Harvard University. Revised and updated, it reflects recent developments in Vietnamese speech patterns and culture. A complete Vietnamese language course designed for first-year college students or dedicated self-study learners, Elementary Vietnamese features extensive MP3 audio recordings by native speakers on an enclosed CD to ensure appropriate pronunciation and understanding of the spoken language.

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