Vietnamese

Welcome to the Vietnamese textbook! This book will teach you to speak, read, and write in Vietnamese, and understand Vietnamese culture.

Chào mừng các bạn đến với sách giáo khoa tiếng Việt. Sách này sẽ dạy bạn đọc, nói, và viết tiếng Việt, và hiểu về văn hoá Việt.

Introduction

• About the authors
• History
• FAQ

Lessons

This is a draft of the lesson plans. You can discuss these plans here. The second draft of this book is also being planned here.

Pronunciation

• Alphabet
• Vowels
• Consonants
  • K vs. kh
  • Ng & ngh
• Tones & tone marks
• Pronunciation Practice
• Diphthongs & Triphthongs
• Notes
• How to Read
• Emphasis

Spelling

• D vs. gi
• K vs. kh
• Ng vs. nh at the end of a word
• Vietnamizing foreign words

Chúng ta học tiếng Việt nhé - Let's Learn Vietnamese

Beginners

• Lesson 1: Xin chào (Hello)
• Lesson 2: Nghề nghiệp (Career)
• Lesson 3: Quốc tịch (Nationality)
• Lesson 4: Ai đây? (Who?)
• Lesson 5: Cái gì đây? (What?)
• Lesson 6: Gia đình (Family)
• Lesson 7: Trong nhà? (Around the house)
• Lesson 8: Hỏi giờ (Asking the time)
• Lesson 9: Hỏi đường (Asking for directions)
• Lesson 10: Thời tiết (Weather)

Pre-intermediate

• Lesson 11: Chuyên chở (Transportation)
• Lesson 12: Gọi điện thoại (Telephoning)
• Lesson 13: Mua sắm (Shopping)
• Lesson 14: Đi chợ (Going to the market)
• Lesson 15: Nhà hàng, khách sạn (Restaurant, Hotel)
• Lesson 16: Bệnh viện (Hospital)
• Lesson 17: Du lịch (Travel)
• Lesson 18: Thể thao (Sport)
• Lesson 19: Dịch vụ (Services)
• Lesson 20: Báo chí, truyền hình (Media)

Từ vựng - Vocabulary

• Common phrases
• Greetings
• Introducing yourself
• Describing yourself
• Numbers
• Colors
• Recreation
• Family
• Around the house
  • Kitchen
  • Bedroom
  • Chores
• The workplace
• School
• Shopping
  • Clothing
  • At the market
• At the restaurant
• Downtown
• At the farm
• Public transportation
• At the hotel
• At the library
• Medical care
• The human body
• Private transportation
• Giving directions
• Religion and worship
• Nature
  • Weather
• The universe
• Reading a book
• Using the telephone
• Using computers
  • Using the Internet

Grammar

• Sentence Word Order
• Structural formation of words
• Parts of speech
• Nouns
• Classifier
• Personal pronouns
• Structural formation of sentences
• Demonstratives
• Predicative Noun
• Predicative Adjective
• Predicative Verbs
• Forming dates & times
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Dimension
• Possession
• Tense
  • Just recently-Just
  • Done
  • Intention
• Can, May, Be able to, Perhaps, Maybe, Possibly
• Should, Need, Want, Must/Have to
• There is/are, To have/get
• If
• Frequency Adverb
• Active and Passive voice
• It's said that
• Question tags
• Yes, No Questions
• Questions
• Imperative Mood
• Double complement sentence
• Prepositions
• Conjunction
• Exclamation
• Reduplication
• Sino Vietnamese words
• Oneself
• Comparison
• Relative Clause
• Word usage

• Ago, From here, Before, After
• No, Not
• Many, Few
• All, Whole
• Both...and
• Every, Each, All
• Every
• Even
• Anyway, Anyhow
• Nobody/No one
• Also, Too
• Very
• Only
• Except/But
• Apart from
• Nothing at all
• Result of an action
• At once
• Again
• How Way Method
• Each other, One another, Together
• With/Together
• To, So that, In order to

Culture

Văn hoá

• Music
• Food & drink
• Vietnamese New Year
• Literature
  • Poetry
• Tourism
• Mythology
• Geography
  • Northern Vietnam
  • Central Vietnam
  • Southern Vietnam

Appendices

• Answers to written exercises
• Vietnamese ↔ English dictionaries
• How to type in Vietnamese using a keyboard
• How to display Vietnamese webpages
• Version history

Indices

• Idioms
• Verbs

Glossary

• A-K
• L-Y

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