Hi! I‘m moving to nha trang next year so I‘m looking for a vietnamese language course. I already googled it but I could find any school there. Does anyone have any recommendation?- @Calathea
*** I for one believe posters should be able to recommend such schools as long as they are not financially tied to or employed by them. ***- @THIGV
Hello everyone,*** I for one believe posters should be able to recommend such schools as long as they are not financially tied to or employed by them. ***- @THIGVWell noted! You can recommend a school in that case! We used to moderate as most of the recommendations were disguised advertising but a genuine recommendation is most welcome.Have a nice day,Bhavna- @Bhavna
Hi! I‘m moving to nha trang next year so I‘m looking for a vietnamese language course. I already googled it but I could find any school there. Does anyone have any recommendation?- @Calathea
I use an app called Mondly
https://www.mondly.com/app
I use an app called Mondly
https://www.mondly.com/appwhich gives you a free daily lesson of about 5 minutes.- @johnross23For 69,000 VN đồng per month (about $3 USD), you get access to a large number of lessons. You can also study in your own language by choosing it in the settings if you speak a language other than English.It's something you can use for an introduction to the basic vocabulary, but i think you would still want to have private lessons with a tutor to make real progress. As people have mentioned, private lessons are most common and these days you can even study online.You should note that VNese is quite a difficult language and many people get frustrated and give up since in urban areas at least there is often someone around who speaks English and translation by phone usually works if you phrase the original statement in English in a clear way. Also, "a picture (on your phone) is worth a thousand words" when you're looking for a specific item.As I mentioned on another thread "Language Advice":it's vital to learn the orthography/writing system so that you know how words are supposed to be pronounced, although there are also regional differences in pronunciation.By glancing at this article:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabetyou'll see that it is rather complicated.Just aim to learn as much as you can rather than thinking you will "master" the language. I have especially focused on food items so that I can read a menu. In Nha Trang, some restaurants and noodle shops have menus in VNese, Chinese and Russian, not English, so you may similarly want to focus on that and being able to order food and beverages/ask for utensils, etc.
@johnross23 Thank you very much for your detailed response.