There are many reasons to learn Vietnamese. As this website is dedicated to expatriation to Vietnam, we hope you will be motivated to learn this language. It will be helpful in your daily life if you are planning to travel extensively in Vietnam, take up residence here, do business with Vietnamese or more importantly making friends or more. Who knows??

Anyway you will see, it is a lot of fun. Just try it !

Learn Vietnamese at the University

> Golden Key Language Center
30 Hoa Ma Str., Hanoi
Tel: 971 4880
info@goldenkey.edu.vn

> Vietnamese Language Centre

1, Pham Ngu Lao St. Hanoi

Tel: 826 2468

> University of Social Sciences and Humanities

12, Dinh Tien Hoang street, Arr.1, Ho Chi Minh City

vietnamhoc@hcm.vnn.vn

> Teacher Training University

280, An Duong Vuong street, Dist.5, Ho Chi Minh City

ciecer@hcm.vnn.vn

Learn Vietnamese with students or certified teachers (private tuition)

Ideal to start learning colloquial / everyday life Vietnamese.

All of them are nice people who will make your discovery of the language lively. Enjoy this opportunity to hang around in town with them, they will introduce you the local uses and customs!

Learn Vietnamese with Books, cassettes

> Language methods

ASSIMIL is a reference, available in cassettes and CD (more convenient to study)

> Bilingual books

These are foreign books translated into Vietnamese. For example, you can find in bookstores Le petit Prince, comics Tintin or Astérix...

> Vietnamese books for learning English may also be useful

- Right Wrong, to find the right word.

- A collection of funny stories

> Dictionaries

- Vietnamese, The Rough Guide

- Picture dictionary by Norma SHAPIRO and Jayme ANDELSON-GOLSTEIN (Oxford university press).

Learn Vietnamese with Computer Software

> VietKey to write in Vietnamese on your computer

NB: Learning to write in Vietnamese with the keyboard is very easy, knowing that the standard is VNI, you can use tones and accents with the 1 to 7 keys above the letters.

> LacViet MtdEVA dictionary

> EV Tran, for automatic text translation.

> Vietkey2000 will be useful to read and write in VN

Learn Vietnamese with Internet

> Web-Radio

For those who are abroad, there are many radio broadcasts on the internet, ideal for getting information and for getting used to listening to Vietnamese

> WebTV

Vietnamese TV online

Public channel available on Internet.

Learn Vietnamese - Interesting Links

Online Vietnamese Listening Program

Pronunciation and Spelling Practice

Learning Vietnamese may be confusing at the beginning

The same word may have different meanings according to the tone used (6 different tones). The easy part is reading: Vietnamese people use the roman alphabet.

The grammar structure is fairly simple, words never change, and nouns have no masculine/feminine, no plural forms. Verbs have only one form regardless of gender, person or tense.… So your more urgent and important task will be to get used to the pronunciation. One more thing: Some variation exists between the northern the center and the southern Vietnam.