Syllabus: This course will provide students with a solid working competence in basic Vietnamese. After completing the course, students will able to use basic Vietnamese appropriately, correctly and with some degree of spontaneity and variation in a number of very commonly occurring situations and interactions. Students will acquire: an active, well-pronounced command of the core vocabulary of Vietnamese that is close to 1,000 of the very frequently used words in everyday conversation; and a working command of the most frequent features of Vietnamese grammar.

Placements will be subject to availability and security assessment. Participants are advised that due to circumstances beyond the University’s control (for example: the onset of specific international security concerns, or international health crises) it may not be possible for this program to run or it may be terminated at short notice or without notice. STUDENTS ENTER THIS PROGRAM AT THEIR OWN RISK.

Proposed Assessment: Class performance, attendance and participation (10 per cent); three tests (30 per cent); mid-program written exam (15 per cent); mid-program oral exam (15 per cent); final program written test (15 per cent); project presentation (15 per cent)

Contact Hours: The course will be taught over a period of one month or approximately 70 contact hours in central Vietnam.

Incompatible: with Vietnamese 1B (VIET1003)

Prescribed Text: Hue, Nguyen Van (ed), Vietnamese as a Second Language I (VSL 1), ANU College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University- HCMC, 2003

Nguyen Bich Thuan, Marybeth Clark, Nguyen Long, Spoken Vietnamese For Beginners, Northern IllinoisUniversity, 1994