Welcome and thank you for visiting the Vietnamese Online Home Page. Vietnamese is the official language in Vietnam and is spoken by a large Vietnamese community around the world. This online course is an personal attemp to introduce the very basic of Vietnamese language to English speaking community.

(C) 1998 Tung X. Cong

This page was last updated Nov 01 1998

Introduction

The Vietnamese language is a hybrid of Mon-Khmer, Thai and Chinese elements with many of its basic words derived from the monotonic Mon-Khmer languages. Throughout Vietnamese history and up to the present, the Vietnamese grew up speaking the dialect of the region in which they were born. There are three main dialects northern, central and southern, which correspond to three main regions of Vietnam. They differ mainly in pronunciation and in the use of some specific phrases.  The Northern and Southern pronunciation are considered as official pronunciation of the Vietnamese language.

 

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Lesson Index

Lesson 1 Meeting and Greetings

Lesson 2 Small Talk

Lesson 3 Getting Around

Lesson 4 Accomodation

Lesson 5 In the country

Lesson 6  Food

Lesson 7  Shopping

Lesson 8  Health

Lesson 9  Time and Dates

Lesson 10 Numbers

A0. Vietnamese characters on WWW

A1. Pronunciation

A2. Grammar in short

A3. Personal Pronouns - The biggest issue for foreign speakers

A4. Vocabularies

 

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