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Essential Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary
A compact Vietnamese phrasebook with 1,500+ everyday sentences, a 2,000-term glossary, and brief pronunciation and grammar guides.
Essential Vietnamese
By Phan Văn Giưỡng Get Book
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Description
Essential Vietnamese is a compact book for travelers and beginners who need practical language quickly. It works more like a phrasebook and mini dictionary than a step-by-step course, so you can dip in when a situation comes up.
Its 15 sections cover greetings, small talk, restaurants, transport, hotels, money, shopping, health, and emergencies. You get more than 1,500 everyday sentences and an English-Vietnamese glossary with over 2,000 terms and expressions. Point-to boxes let you show a printed response when speaking is difficult.
Short pronunciation and grammar guides introduce the alphabet, tones, word forms, and basic sentence patterns. This adds useful context, but it is still reference material rather than a full teaching sequence.
It is handy for quick lookup and travel backup, but it has no audio, drills, answer key, or real conversation practice. You will need another resource to train your ear, check your tones, and move beyond set phrases.
Content
- Type: Dictionary, Phrasebook
- Skills: Speaking, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation
- Size: 1,500+ sentences and 2,000+ terms
- Native audio: No
- Exercises: No
Price
- Price: $5.99
- Cost: Paid
Details
- Format: Book
- Author: Phan Văn Giưỡng
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- Published: 2018
- ISBN-13: 9780804851299
Pros
- More than 1,500 practical sentences and 2,000 glossary entries
- Travel topics are divided into quick-reference sections
- Point-to boxes help when you cannot pronounce a response
- Includes basic pronunciation and grammar guidance
Cons
- No audio for hearing tones and pronunciation
- No exercises or answer key
- Organized for lookup rather than progressive study
- Does not provide interactive conversation practice
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