Vietnamese Phrasebook

by Thinh Hoang and Nguyen Xuan Thu

Features all the essential, day-to-day words and phrases, plus vocabulary for making conversation, understanding festivals and local dates, and sightseeing. Comprehensive pronunciation and grammar... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864426615
• ISBN13: 9780864426611
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 3.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

An Appropriate Title

As an individual who has spent about 2 years learning Vietnamese I believe this to be a very good book. The comments of the previous two reviewers should be dismissed (as one did not read the book and the other is already fluent). As long as you understand the setup and reasoning for the layout of a phrasebook this book will not dissappoint anyone. Unlike a dictionary where words are alphabetically listed, this book has similar items arranged (i.e. foods, health, animals). If you went to Vietnam and needed a book to take with you this is the only one I would recommend. It will allow you to survive; and, if you had trouble pronouncing words you could also point to the phrase you were trying to say (this of course would only work if the other individual was literate). If you are planning on learning the language at all (other than for a brief trip) then I'd strongly recommend getting other books (Elementary Vietnamese is good, but Colloquial Vietnamese is awful).