# Vietnamese

| Welcome to the Vietnamese textbook! This book will teach you to speak, read, and write in Vietnamese, and understand Vietnamese culture. | Chào mừng các bạn đến với sách giáo khoa tiếng Việt. Sách này sẽ dạy bạn đọc, nói, và viết tiếng Việt, và hiểu về văn hoá Việt. |

## Introduction

* About the authors
* History
* FAQ

## Lessons

This is a draft of the lesson plans. You can discuss these plans here. The second draft of this book is also being planned here.

### Pronunciation

* Alphabet
* Vowels
* Consonants
** K vs. kh
** Ng & ngh
* Tones & tone marks
* Pronunciation Practice
* Diphthongs & Triphthongs
* Notes
* How to Read
* Emphasis

### Spelling

* D vs. gi
* K vs. kh
* Ng vs. nh at the end of a word
* Vietnamizing foreign words

### Chúng ta học tiếng Việt nhé - Let's Learn Vietnamese
#### Beginners

* Lesson 1: Xin chào (Hello)
* Lesson 2: Nghề nghiệp (Career)
* Lesson 3: Quốc tịch (Nationality)
* Lesson 4: Ai đây? (Who?)
* Lesson 5: Cái gì đây? (What?)
* Lesson 6: Gia đình (Family)
* Lesson 7: Trong nhà? (Around the house)
* Lesson 8: Hỏi giờ (Asking the time)
* Lesson 9: Hỏi đường (Asking for directions)
* Lesson 10: Thời tiết (Weather)

#### Pre-intermediate

* Lesson 11: Chuyên chở (Transportation)
* Lesson 12: Gọi điện thoại (Telephoning)
* Lesson 13: Mua sắm (Shopping)
* Lesson 14: Đi chợ (Going to the market)
* Lesson 15: Nhà hàng, khách sạn (Restaurant, Hotel)
* Lesson 16: Bệnh viện (Hospital)
* Lesson 17: Du lịch (Travel)
* Lesson 18: Thể thao (Sport)
* Lesson 19: Dịch vụ (Services)
* Lesson 20: Báo chí, truyền hình (Media)

#### Post-intermediate
## Từ vựng - Vocabulary

* Common phrases
* Greetings
* Introducing yourself
* Describing yourself
* Numbers
* Colors
* Recreation
* Family
* Around the house
** Kitchen
** Bedroom
** Chores
* The workplace
* School
* Shopping
** Clothing
** At the market
* At the restaurant
* Downtown
* At the farm
* Public transportation
* At the hotel
* At the library
* Medical care
* The human body
* Private transportation
* Giving directions
* Religion and worship
* Nature
** Weather
* The universe
* Reading a book
* Using the telephone
* Using computers
** Using the Internet

## Grammar

* Sentence Word Order
* Structural formation of words
* Parts of speech
* Nouns
* Classifier
* Personal pronouns
* Structural formation of sentences
* Demonstratives
* Predicative Noun
* Predicative Adjective
* Predicative Verbs
* Forming dates & times
* Adjectives
* Adverbs
* Dimension
* Possession
* Tense
** Just recently-Just
** Done
** Intention
* Can, May, Be able to, Perhaps, Maybe, Possibly
* Should, Need, Want, Must/Have to
* There is/are, To have/get
* If
* Frequency Adverb
* Active and Passive voice
* It's said that
* Question tags
* Yes, No Questions
* Questions
* Imperative Mood
* Double complement sentence
* Prepositions
* Conjunction
* Exclamation
* Reduplication
* Sino Vietnamese words
* Oneself
* Comparison
* Relative Clause
* Word usage
* Ago, From here, Before, After
* No, Not
* Many, Few
* All, Whole
* Both...and
* Every, Each, All
* Every
* Even
* Anyway, Anyhow
* Nobody/No one
* Also, Too
* Very
* Only
* Except/But
* Apart from
* Nothing at all
* Result of an action
* At once
* Again
* How Way Method
* Each other, One another, Together
* With/Together
* To, So that, In order to

## Văn hoá - Culture

* Music
* Food & drink
* Vietnamese New Year
* Literature
** Poetry
* Tourism
* Mythology
* Geography
** Northern Vietnam
** Central Vietnam
** Southern Vietnam

## Appendices

* Answers to written exercises
* Vietnamese ↔ English dictionaries
* How to type in Vietnamese using a keyboard
* How to display Vietnamese webpages
* Version history

## Indices

* Idioms
* Verbs

## Glossary

* A-K
* L-Y
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| II | This is a Category II Language. |