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Title: Northern dialect, uses vocab w/o introducing it
Review: Like some other posters, I grew up in a Vietnamese household but stopped speaking it once I entered Kindergarten because I needed to work on my English. My parents speak the Southern dialect, so the recordings that accompany this book are a little difficult for me to understand. In any case, the most annoying thing is that the dialogues and examples often use words that were never introduced in the new vocabulary boxes.The Foreign Service Institute offers free recordings and texts for a basic course in Southern Vietnamese, although they are outdated: [...]
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