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Title: Teach Youself Vietnamese
Review: I found this book very frustrating to use. The vocabulary was not reviewed prior to the very quick paced converstions, so it was hard to work on proper pronunciation. The chapters did not have very practical topics (You are a secretary, aren't you?, Do you want to see a photograph of my family?, Do you still work in a hotel? Do you still have a temperature?). I found Vietnamese for Beginners by Jake Catlett and Huong Nguyen to be much more worthwhile. It has a lot of practical vocabulary which is slowly pronounced prior to the conversations. In addition, the chapters teach things I can actually see myself needing to know (Greetings, yes/no questions, common nouns, countries, action verbs, days of the week/month/year, food/drink, time, daily habits, clothing, colors,etc.)when we visit the country.
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