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The Vietnamese Language Program contains 23 hours of audio, and two textbooks in PDF file format with 711 pages.

Each of the Vietnamese ten lessons begins with a Basic Dialogue which forms the core of the lesson. A student controls a lesson to the extent to which he has learned the dialogue by heart. Thorough memorization of the dialogue means thorough mastery of the text. Memorization is achieved by direct imitation of the audio material.

Vietnamese Basic Dialogues are presented with their English equivalents. Numbered utterances in the dialogues are basic sentences. New words or phrases occuring in a basic sentence for the first time are listed separately, immediately before the sentence, as breakdowns. They are intendented and not numbered.

The audio which accompanies these lessons includes as Basic Dialogues, Drills, and Supplements.

About the Vietnamese Language

To learn Vietnamese, you need to pay attention to the variations in pronunciation and tone as this can drastically affect a word's meaning.

If you master Vietnamese tones, you will have few problems learning Vietnamese. You will find that Vietnamese grammar is quite simple.

Vietnam's population is about 80 million. The main religious beliefs in Vienam are about 80% Buddhist and 10% Catholic. The remaining 10% are predominantly Taoist, Christian and Muslim.

The Vietnamese language is a unique language as it has no dialects. Everyone can understand each other, althought there are three distinguishable major accents: Northern, Central and Southern.

To speak Vietnamese and to be understood correctly, you need to become familiar with how consonants, vowels, diphthongs and trophthongs are pronounced.

Vietnamese is a tonal language and is written in Roman script. Words never change their form, nouns have no masculine/feminine or plural forms, and verbs have only one form regardless of gender, person or tense. To understand how the Vietnamese language works and to succesfully use and speak Vietnamese, an understanding of grammar is vital.