Aurellia Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4834 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Czech* Studies: English, Italian, Spanish
| Message 1 of 6 27 July 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone.
I want to study Vietnamese and wonder which course, you think, is the best one.
I would choose Assimil but sadly I don't know any French.
Thank you for your tips ;)
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6378 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 6 27 July 2012 at 4:42pm | IP Logged |
From what I can tell there are actually two versions of the Colloquial course, the most recent released this year.
I am also curious to hear what anyone has to say about these three courses.
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Aurellia Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4834 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Czech* Studies: English, Italian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 6 29 July 2012 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
Anyone?
Thank you in advance.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 4 of 6 29 July 2012 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
PodÃvej se na tyhle diskuse:
Teach Yourself Vietnamese
Vietnamese from scratch
Vietnamese: how far in two weeks?
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4665 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 5 of 6 09 August 2012 at 4:39am | IP Logged |
Teach Yourself Vietnamese is not really for beginners, I found it practically useless. I would recommend Binh Ngu Ngo's Elementary Vietnamese, published by Tuttle Press. It's very thorough and covers pronunciation extensively at the outset. The only problem is that you have to write to the author and send him a check to get the cds (he teaches at Harvard.) This was relatively painless, although I'm not sure how it would go if you're not in the US. You would definitely need the audio component of any course, because the sounds are really key for Vietnamese.
Edit: Actually I see on Amazon that a new (third) edition of Binh's book will be coming out in 2013, and it will include a "disc" - possibly an MP3, judging by other language texts by this publisher that I've used. That would definitely be worth waiting for, although the old edition had a set of 6 or 8 cds, the new one might not have as much listening material - of course I'm only guessing.
Edited by viedums on 09 August 2012 at 4:46am
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pigsonfire Newbie United States Joined 5074 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Cantonese
| Message 6 of 6 12 August 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged |
Both are horrible!!
Use this course instead!
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNLanguage/SupportNS/t ableofcontent.htm
It is much better and free as well.
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