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.

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

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

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.

Permission of Coordinator

with Vietnamese 1B (VIET1003)

Hue, Nguyen Van (ed), Vietnamese as a Second Language I (VSL 1), College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University- HCMC, 2003;
Nguyen Bich Thuan, Marybeth Clark, Nguyen Long, Spoken Vietnamese For Beginners, Northern Illinois University, 1994