Survival Vietnamese: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary)

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A handy Vietnamese phrasebook and guide to the Vietnamese language,Survival Vietnamese contains basic vocabulary necessary for gettingaround.This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speakingVietnamese in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or businesspeople learning Vietnamese or traveling to Vietnam, it also contains a beginnerguide to the Vietnamese language, allowing for a deeper understanding ofVietnamese than a typical Vietnamese phrasebook or Vietnamese dictionary.

The book is broken into four basic sections: Common Vietnamese Expressionsand Key Words, Essential Vietnamese Communication Tools, VietnameseTravel Vocabulary, and making your own sentences. All Vietnamese words andphrases are written in Romanized form as well phonetically, making pronouncingVietnamese a breeze. Authentic Vietnamese script is also included so that in thecase of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying tocommunicate with.

Author Bio

Bac Hoai Tran has been a language lecturer at UC Berkeley since 1992. He holds an M.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics. He is the author of the textbooks Conversational Vietnamese (19962013) and Anh Ngu Bao Chi (Newspaper English) (1993), and is a coauthor of Living with English (2001), the Vietnamese Dictionary & Phrasebook (2004), the Vietnamese Practical Dictionary (2010), and Colloquial Vietnamese (2012). He has also been the Vietnamese coordinator at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2000