Easy Vietnamese (9780804851961)

Learn to speak, read and understand Vietnamese with this complete beginner-friendly course featuring free online audio.

Easy Vietnamese is the perfect introduction for anyone who wants to learn Vietnamese independently or with a teacher. Designed for beginners, it provides practical vocabulary, essential grammar, clear pronunciation guidance and useful everyday expressions to help you start communicating quickly and confidently.

This complete course includes dialogues, practice exercises, a glossary of commonly used words and phrases, cultural notes, etiquette tips and free online audio recordings for all the dialogues, vocabulary and exercises, making it an ideal resource for travelers, students and business professionals alike.


About the Author:
Bac Hoai Tran holds an M.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics. He has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley since 1992 and is the author of Conversational Vietnamese and Anh Ngu Bao Chi (Newspaper English). He has translated many Vietnamese short stories that have appeared in The Stars, The Earth, The River as well as other anthologies. He is the author of Survival Vietnamese and coauthor of Colloquial Vietnamese and Living with English.