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Contemporary Vietnamese: An Intermediate Text (Book + audio) (Southeast Asian Language Text Series)

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It arrived with 3 CDs. I threw a cursory glance into the book and found that I need a good start to jump into this highly developped book. Every exercise has its solution given and every vietnamese passage has its translation given on the last pages of the book. Colossal work for vietnamese lovers.

Contemporary Vietnamese: An Intermediate Text (Book + audio) (Southeast Asian Language Text Series)
I am very fortunate in that my current Vietnamese teacher is actually the author of this book, Co Thuan, so I could easily be accused of some bias. However Co Thuan is not only a fabulous teacher, helping me progress more in the last two months then I have in the last year, but her book is interesting, informative and clear, with plenty of examples and exercises. I highly recommend this text to anyone learning Vietnamese - although this is an intermediate text book, Co Thuan has also written a beginner's text in the same style, and further books as you progress. Chuc may man!

When I first got this book I was unsure about how effective it would be. After plunging into the first bit of it so far, I've got to say that I'm very impressed. It has a lot of vocab covering diverse situations one would encounter were on to go to Vietnam, though much of the vocab would be useful in many other settings too. For the book to be effective, it just takes a concentration on learning the vocab well, but I must say that for myself I'm very pleased.

The book was in brand new condition along with the Cd's - received the book within 10 days of making the order

My order didn't come with any audio as noted. I would probably return the product if it were not for the inconvenience and cost of shipping.
As an Intermediate text, audio is a must for it. There
are sections with no English translations and without audio is not much of any help.