What you’ll learn
- Be able to distinguish the Vietnamese tones
- Build the foundation for your next step in learning Vietnamese
- Pronounce every Vietnamese sound clearly in Southerner Dialect
- Reduce your accent and sound more native-like
- Understand how to form some specific complicated Vietnamese sound and how it relates to Vietnamese pronunciation
- Be able to pronounce every word and phrase in Vietnamese even without understanding any of them.
Requirements
- Need a lot of motivation and practicing
- Need to spend time practicing outside the class
- Need to pass the Final Test for the level at least 50% of the grade
Methods of Instruction
- Instructor-led lessons
- Independent study/homework
- Hands-on training/testing/projects
Text and Learning Materials
- Vietnamese as a Second Language by Nguyễn Văn Huệ (redesigned by SVFF to serve the purpose of teaching only southern dialect)
- Audio files in Southern Dialect included for the ebook
- Online sources: online news, readings, videos, movies, etc (carefully chosen by SVFF)
- Glossary created by SVFF
Topics will be covered in this course:
- 5 tones in Southern accent
- 28 initial consonants
- 8 ending consonants
- 12 Single vowels
- Diphthongs
- How to say sentences smoothly
For detail of the course outline, click here
How long does this last?
- 6 to 8 meetings in class, depending on each student
- Students with more time for self-learning can achieve this level faster
- Learners want to focus on just some specific area only, such as speaking and listening online also take less time to achieve this level
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners
- Learners that want to improve their pronunciation
- Learners who have a different accent and want to achieve the Saigonese Accent
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