Nghiem-Boventer Mynh. Beginner's Vietnamese with 2 Audio CDs

New York: Hippocrene Books, 2011. — 280 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series).Beginner’s Vietnamese is the perfect choice for those of you who want to learn how to speak Vietnamese in a short time as an easy and fun, but also interesting and rewarding, experience. The intention of this volume is not to overload your enthusiasm with instructive information, or compromise the sufficiency of a language textbook, but to provoke your intellectual curiosity and give you the basic language tools needed to inspire you to be able to learn and explore the language further on your own.
This guide for home study or classroom use has 13 practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, grammar and exercises. The audio CDs provide correct pronunciation and listening comprehension for each lesson. Includes vocabulary variants for both northern and southern Vietnamese dialects.