Summary: Welcome to Learn Vietnamese 30 Days, where you can learn Vietnamese for free. This website focuses on the Vietnamese Southern Dialect for daily communication, designed to assist expats residing in Ho Chi Minh City and the South of Vietnam in understanding spoken Vietnamese. The four levels presented in this blog aim to help you learn and use conversational Vietnamese in your daily life, covering:
- Vietnamese alphabet, tone marks, and spelling rules.
- Essential and practical vocabulary and phrases for survival in Ho Chi Minh City.
- Additional necessary vocabulary to ease your life in Saigon.
- Insight into the Vietnamese language to explore the beauty of Southern Vietnam.
1. Why I Created This Blog
Hello, I'm Khang, the creator of Learn Vietnamese 30 Days website. As a native Vietnamese with a background in linguistics and experience teaching English, I understand the challenges of learning Vietnamese. Many expatriates, including my American partner living in Vietnam, find it difficult due to various reasons.
- People in Ho Chi Minh City predominantly speak the Southern dialect, while many online learning resources use the standard Northern Vietnamese dialect.
- Moreover, some materials translate English textbooks into Vietnamese, introducing uncommon words and phrases rarely used by locals.
To address this, my website has a simple goal: to help foreigners, like my partner, understand spoken Southern Vietnamese. The lessons also include my experiences as a non-native Saigonese!
Please be noted that this website focuses on practical, everyday-communication Vietnamese that you hear in daily life. Vietnamese in this website is't for academic purposes.
For those wanting to truly explore Vietnamese food, culture, and navigate all districts, local restaurants, stores, and beautiful countryside areas in the South, learning Vietnamese is essential.
There are three levels of Vietnamese in this website, and each level will be packed into 30 lessons (about 30 days/level):
2. Learn Vietnamese for free in three levels
2.1. Level 01: Basic Vietnamese
This level is crucial and foundational step for beginners:
- Vietnamese alphabet and how to spell Vietnamese.
- Simple Vietnamese pronouns.
- Basic greetings in Vietnamese.
- Self-introduction in Vietnamese: your name, job, nationality, etc.
- Numbers in Vietnamese.
- Topics related to numbers: phone numbers, how much something is, how old someone is, etc.
- Time: Times of a day, days of a week, and months of a year.
- Numbers and time application: Make a reservation and payment at a restaurant.
Good news about Vietnamese spelling:
- since you're reading in English, learning the Vietnamese alphabet is straightforward, with only seven additional letters.
- Vietnamese is phonetic, reflecting spoken language, but Southern dialect pronunciation may differ a bit.
Tone marks can be challenging, but don't worry too much – you can fix it later if needed.
And Vietnamese even has jokes about tone mark mistakes in texting! Sometimes tone marks are very important like this:
Now you know how crucial tone marks can be!!! 🥹
2.2. Level 02: Essential Vietnamese
This level includes topics about:
- Encompassing street directions and Gas Station
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- Beauty: Barbershop and Hair salon
- Bookstore
- Park & Nursery
- Sports & Gym
2.3. Level 03: Necessary Vietnamese
This level includes topics about:
- Entertainment: Mall, Cinema and Theme Park
- Night market shopping & bargain
- Travel: Airport and bus station
- Pets & Veterinarian
- Dating & family
- Work & hobbies
- Government offices and paperwork
You can start your "Learn Vietnamese 30 Days" journey right now for free with me. I hope you enjoy your time in Vietnam and discover unexpected joys. Thank you!
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