learning vietnamese

http://saigonlanguage.com/en/

University of Social Science & Humanities , Ho Chi Minh city. That's a great place to learn Vietnamese, There's a Vietnamese department for international students learn Vietnamese and culture. they already have their own books for teaching Vietnamese for foreigners. Good luck to u!

I'm regrette because you 're not coming to Hanoi.
Hanoi university is a good university to learning vietnamese.

HI viyenbinh

I wanna go Ho Chi Minh just for fun how is that place

owis123 wrote:

HI viyenbinh

I wanna go Ho Chi Minh just for fun how is that place

It's crowded, traffic is perilous, it's polluted and it takes an hour to get anywhere.  I like visiting but I would not want to live there.

I had a really good experience with VLS - very friendly staff, professional instructors and really small class sizes (they offer one-on-one tutoring as well). They have a location in District 1 as well as District 7/Phu My Hung.

http://vlstudies.com/

Here is the website for the Vietnamese language dept at the University others have suggested. A link to the schedule is on the left, classes start every two weeks.

http://www.vns.edu.vn/vns/index.php?opt … =5&lang=en

Chúc may mắn!

Lassho school is a good one

Vietnamese Language Studies (VLS) also has a free pronunciation class that's held every other Wednesday for an hour in the afternoon at their Dist 1 campus.  If you're available at that time of day in the middle of the week, you can get an idea of what the instruction is like.  They have an intensive two week beginning course, and several others.  Tuition is $320USD/6,735,000(approx.)VND. Slightly more than their website says-it's the 2014 price for 40 hours of instruction. Class sizes are generally small and the tuition includes a small notebook and text.

Here's a link to the US Department of State/FSO's Vietnamese familiarization course, which is free. 

http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Con … Vietnamese

It was produced in the southern dialect while most, like  Pimsleur, were done in the northern dialect.

Here's another one that I just found that appears to be very comprehensive:

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/v … ontent.htm

this is a place beautiful and great

  hey guy

welcome to Viet Nam 

gift u some idea:

1/ find a Vietnamese who can speak English and make u have inspiration to learn Vietnamese every day   

2/ like learning swimming, u jump into teh water  so, learning language's the same

don't worry misstake => practise it every moment  i'll master it

  Have a great trip in Viet Nam

I can teach you Vietnamese. Could you teach me English?

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Teacher Mark wrote:

Here's a link to the US Department of State/FSO's Vietnamese familiarization course, which is free. 

http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Con … Vietnamese

It was produced in the southern dialect while most, like  Pimsleur, were done in the northern dialect.

Badly outdated/archaic speaking patterns from the 1950s and 1960s (I highly doubt they use anything like this today, their old stuff is available through the freedom of information act but they don't make their newer materials public - the jerks).

If someone is determined to use an online source as their primary instruction method I would suggest 'Learning Vietnamese with Annie' on youtube (with the caveat that detailed feedback on pronunciation from a native speaker or instructor is not just highly advised but essential as many foreigners learn lots of vocabulary but few can be understood by most Viets beyond basic utterances).

She's a southern speaker though she also uses the dấu ngã (mã - horse) tone (for learners who are in the north) whereas southern speakers usually pronounce this one as indistinguishable from the dấu hỏi (mả - tomb). She has videos explaining the differences between the northern and southern dialects.

She has a ton of videos employing different learning methods and adds new ones regularly.