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| Gateway Newbie Australia Joined 5446 days ago 13 posts - 15 votes | Message 1 of 7 10 December 2010 at 11:09am | IP Logged |
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Hi
Well I am learning Vietnamese using mainly Teaach Yourself. From various other posts I have read about TY the people who use it seem to be able to complete a chapter in an hour or two.....for me it is taking at least a week of part time study..........there seems to be alot in it to learn, not just read but learn. The exercises and translations literally take me hours and hours. MY QUESTION IS....are all TY this hard or is the Vietnamese a special (ie difficult) case? Paul 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| emptysilo Newbie United States Joined 5473 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 7 10 December 2010 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't ever used a TY course so I can't compare it with others, but you should look at the amazon.com reviews for the course for your answer. I think it will make you feel a lot better.
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5874 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 3 of 7 10 December 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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I would directed your attention to Moses McCormick. He mainly uses the TY series and has used the Vietnamese TY
as well. Go to his youtube channel Laoshu505000. He has great information on how he uses this course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6527 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 4 of 7 15 December 2010 at 12:54am | IP Logged |
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Use this course (choose the lessons on the right column). It's better than the TY
(much more vocabulary and grammar explanations. And use TY as a complement. Hope it helps! Guido.- 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Gateway Newbie Australia Joined 5446 days ago 13 posts - 15 votes | Message 5 of 7 15 December 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Guido for the useful feedback.
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| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5470 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 6 of 7 16 December 2010 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
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I can't speak for the Vietnamese TY, but if it's anything like the Polish TY, it is
hard. Polish TY jumps straight into "real" dialogues; it doesn't baby you. And there is a lot of material in each lesson, so taking your time to go through it is a good idea. In addition to the course Guido suggested--which is a great resource--there's also the Foreign Service Institute's (FSI) Vietnamese course, which can be found here for free. Lots of drills, lots of audio...the latter especially is crucial. I studied Vietnamese for a year and could speak okay (although my pronunciation was no great shakes), but I could understand virtually no spoken Vietnamese outside of a controlled, slow-speaking classroom environment. If I could have that time back again, I'd definitely incorporate tons of listening from the beginning; it's something I'm going to make a point to do when I return to the language in the future. Edited by thephantomgoat on 16 December 2010 at 11:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 5092 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Vietnamese | Message 7 of 7 17 December 2010 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
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There are alot of great resources here at this linkhttp://sites.google.com/site/soyouwanttolearnalanguage/l anguagee-books it also has many resources for other languages. The FSI audio is pretty good but some outdated words are used. For example the following words would normally be the way people would say them today: Bank- nhà ngân hàng, Post Office- bưu điện. There are a couple of others but people will still know what your talking about. This site has a decent amount of Vietnamese also http://smart.fm/home . It is free and has some pretty fun activities.
Sorry I don't know anything about TY though. The problem with Vietnamese is finding resources above an intermediate level. The DLI stuff gets more involved but I don't think that there is much audio. I hope this helps. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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