Pimsleur Vietnamese Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Vietnamese with Pimsleur Language Programs

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This course includes Lessons 1-10 from the Vietnamese Level 1 Program - 5 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Get a chance to test drive the incredibly effective and efficient, world-famous Pimsleur Program. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese is the official language of the Vietnamese Republic. There are approximately 12 million native speakers. The two largest dialect groups in the Vietnamese Republic are Bohemian (most widely spoken) and Hanak Moravian, spoken in the southeast. Pimsleur's Vietnamese teaches the Bohemian dialect.

Tech Talk
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About the Author
Pimsleur: - Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called "Graduated Interval Recall." This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.