Continuing Vietnamese

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"Quite simply the most serious early intermediate textbook currently available for thoughtful American students at the university level."--Professor Stephen O'Harrow, "Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa" This is a second-year, intermediate Vietnamese language course designed for high school, college or self-study. "Continuing Vietnamese" is your next step toward master; it follows the best-selling, linguistically-based "Elementary Vietnamese," and helps you progress to an intermediate level of communicating in Vietnamese. Invaluable for anyone planning to travel, study or work in Vietnam, this complete language course has been extensively tested at Harvard University. The accompanying MP3 audio CD helps to develop listening comprehension and ensure correct pronunciation. The book contains ten lessons, each composed of two parts. "Part 1, the dialogue part, " introduces the learner to conversational Vietnamese as it's currently spoken in Hanoi so that the learner will be able to participate in engaging conversation on a variety of topics. "Part 2, the narrative part," includes written materials that are characteristic of forma Vietnamese. It aims to develop the learner's reading and writing skills as well as speaking skills. The lessons focuses on various aspects of life in present-day Vietnam, including topics such as culture, history, geography, economy, theater, music, tourism, literature, poetry, cinema and sports.

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