Survival Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary: How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear INSTANTLY! (With Free Online Audio)
By (Author) Bac Hoai Tran
Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing
25th November 2025
25th December 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Language teaching and learning
Paperback
192
Width 102mm, Height 152mm
A pocket-sized guide to Vietnamese with updated phrases and a helpful pronunciation guide! Survival Vietnamese contains all the right phrases for any situation you will encounter when visiting Vietnam. Perfect for tourists, students and business people, it features simple phonetic pronunciations for Vietnamese words as well as a guide to the difficult tones of Vietnamese-to ensure you can make yourself understood! A special chapter on smartphone and tech terms helps you stay connected when you are there and to set-up the local ride hailing and digital payment apps so you can get around. It even has a handy pocket dictionary at the back. This phrasebook will help you: Make connections - Clearly communicate in-person and digitally with Vietnamese speakers Be social - Talk about your favorite social media accounts and learn about new viral trends on the Vietnamese web Make a good impression - Understand and follow Vietnamese customs, traditions, and social etiquette Look your best - Take a seat in the barber's chair for a cut and a shave, or get some new acrylics at the nail salon Stay healthy - Fill a prescription, describe an ailment to a doctor, and communicate during a medical emergency And much more!
Bac Hoai Tran has taught Vietnamese at U.C. Berkeley for over three decades. He has served as the Vietnamese coordinator for the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2000, and has written many textbooks, phrasebooks and dictionaries for beginning learners of Vietnamese.