Vietnamese
Level 2
Basic Course
Volume 2
Foreign Service Institute
Department of State
The Course Used by Diplomats
Learn Vietnamese the proven way -- just like a diplomat!
Over the years, Audio Forum® customers have used our courses to learn Vietnamese in as little as 25 minutes a day, entirely on their own. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to achieve fluency in Vietnamese using this proven audio/text method.
While other premium computer-based language courses offer only the means to learn to speak, with Audio-Forum®, you'll not only speak fluently, you'll also master reading, writing, and grammar skills at a scholarly level -- all with the confidence and polish of a native Vietnamese speaker. After all, diplomats have proven for years that this method works!
This FSI Audio-Forum® Course Features:
* 7.7 hours of audio, 5 units (lessons)
* 321-page text
* Basic dialog and conversation
* Notes on basic dialog
* Substitution and response drills
* Transformation drills
* Combination drills
* Conversation exercises
* Grammar notes
* Supplementary vocabulary
The U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute developed full-length courses specifically for diplomats, the very people who must learn a language quickly and effectively. Having worked with FSI authors and instructors, these courses have been fully tested through usage before release to the public. For over 40 years, Audio-Forum® has been the original and most trusted source for Foreign Service Institute language courses.
About the Language
Vietnamese is an Asian language of the Austro-Asiatic family with over 80 million native speakers. It is the official language of Vietnam and the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people, including about three million overseas. It also is spoken as a first or second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. As a byproduct of French colonial rule, the language displays some influence from French. In earlier times, Vietnamese was written with modified Chinese characters, but today a Latin alphabet with additional diacritics for tones and certain vowels and consonants is used.
Enhanced PDF Features
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System Requirements for Enhanced PDF Features
Mac® OS X® 10.5 & up
Intel® processor
512 MB RAM
Windows® 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP
233 MHz or faster processor
128 MB RAM
Additional Courses Available through Audio-Forum®:
FSI: Basic Vietnamese Volume 1 (Level 1)