Portland State University is working towards offering Vietnamese language (to a mixed group of true and false beginners, and another group of students who are more advanced). Do you have suggestions of texts?

thanks!

Diane

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:30:03 +0100 (BST)
From: "[iso-8859-1] xuan vo" <vxque@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for language texts?

I would recommend you a Vietnamese text book in title:
'Vietnamese, beginer's course' by Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh, first published in 2001 by Curzon Press.

Que Voxuan

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:05:40 -1000
From: Margaret Barnhill Bodemer <bodemer@hawaii.edu>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for language texts?

Diane,
The text that I found most useful (as a learner) for beginners is Binh Nhu Ngo's Beginning Vietnamese (with CD).

Kim Nguyen and Thuy-Kim Le's Conversational Vietnamese (Chung ta noi) is a user-friendly intermediate text which you are probably aware of given its University of Washington (and ASU) genesis.

For advanced level textbooks, you might try contacting Prof. Bac Hoai Tran at UC Berkeley who has created a series of advanced level texts consisting of newspaper articles etc. Check the Berkeley homepage for his email to find out if those are available.

cheers,
Maggie

Margaret Barnhill Bodemer
Department of Anthropology
University of Hawaii, Manoa

From paglaicc@hawaii.edu Thu Nov 6 15:53:07 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:12:44 -1000
From: Gino Paglaiccetti <paglaicc@hawaii.edu>
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Subject: RE: suggestions for language texts?

Two that I know of (and like) include:

Nguyen Long, Marybeth Clark and Nguyen Bich Thuan. 'Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners' (hoc noi tieng viet). Northern Illinois University, Center for SE Asian Studies, 1994.

The other, which is more intensive and has a nice cd is Harvard University's Thay Binh (Dr. Binh Ngo) binhngo@fas.harvard.edu. 'Elementary Vietnamese' Charles E Tuttle Co; ISBN: 0804832072

Gino

From haophan@library.ucla.edu Thu Nov 6 15:52:59 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:25:26 -0700
From: Hao Phan <haophan@library.ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for language texts?

Tin Pham is the Vietnamese language instructor at UCLA, you might want to contact him: Tin Pham <tpham@humnet.ucla.edu>

Hao Phan
Southeast Asian Studies Bibliographer/Cataloger
University of California, Los Angeles
Young Research Library, A1538
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. USA
Tel: (310)-825-7785
Fax: (310)-206-4974