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Multilingual Books FSI Basic Vietnamese This course provides introductory teaching materials for spoken Vietnamese, and is intended for general use by English speakers. Special attention has been given both in the text and in the tapes to make this course as useful as possible for self-instruction. It comes in two levels with the second continuing in the same format as the first. Level One comes with 22 tapes and a book; Level Two 10 tapes and a book. Level One $245 Level Two $225 Both levels $445 More information for FSI Vietnamese... More information for FSI...
Vietnamese Volume 1 and 2, CD Course This course begins with a guide to pronunciation (in Southern dialect) because Vietnamese is a "tone language" in which the meaning of a word can change when it is pronounced with a different musical pitch or pitch contour. Once you have mastered the sounds, basic dialogs and common language structures are introduced. Volume 1: 18 CDs (15.5 hrs.), 328-p. text $269 Volume 2: 9 CDs (7 hrs.), 321-p. text $219
Pimsleur Vietnamese Comprehensive Course This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Vietnamese. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning "on-the-go". Features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice. Includes 16 CDs. CD version Retail Price $345 - Our Price $249 (You Save $96) $249 Click for pricing and more information...
Pimsleur Bookchip for Comprehensive Vietnamese Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. The Bookchip contains the Pimsleur Vietnamese Comprehensive course, with 30 lessons, normally on 16 CDs. $199 More about Pimsleur Bookchips...
iofy Audio Player The iofy Player is back and better than ever. With new enhanced features it delivers the same reliable performance of the original in a sleek new design. Easy to use, the iofy Player is designed specifically for audiobook chips, such as the Pimsleur Bookchip. This intelligent device is the only audiobook chip player on the market today that automatically bookmarks your listening position! Unlike cassettes or CDs, just one audiobook chip can hold 5, 10, 15 hours or more of reading material, and plays without spinning parts that might break or cause skipping when you're on the go. With an iofy player, you can "zip" downloaded audiobooks to chips and listen to them anywhere - while you're driving, exercising, or just relaxing. Alternatively, you can buy premade chips, or you can put your own music or other MP3 content on a chip and listen to that as well. The iofy player comes with Earphones and two AAA batteries. With a 16GB SD Memory Card (not included), it holds up to 2400 hours of spoken audio, or 3840 songs in 128-Kbps MP3 format. Supports Content on SD card, MMC-ROM, MMC Flash, Mini-SD, and Micro-SD (requires adaptor). Skip-free playback; Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz; MP3 (8 to 192 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Speex; One step MP3-CD to chip conversion; CEA 2003 compliant; MPV compliant. $49 More about the iofy Audio Player...
Vietnamese Advanced Transcription Course (3 Volumes) To-Lan Vu, William P. Hyde The goal of this 3 volume course is to take the student to a 3/ 3+ listening comprehension capability by exposing him or her to actual conversations in Vietnamese at an increasing level of difficulty, beginning at a 2 or 2+ level and going on up to the 3 and 3+ level. Ideally the student using this transcription course has completed the Dunwoody Press Vietnamese Intensive Basic Course, thus ensuring a level 2/ 2+ capability in all language skills. Volume 1 contains 14 Supplemental Lessons that may be used in whole or in part as a primer for the basic lessons, or they may substitute for an equal number of basic lessons. Volume 2 contains lessons 1-18 and Volume 3 contains lessons 19-36, as well as a cumulative glossary of all 36 basic lessons. The 36 basic lessons consist of a skeletonized transcript (for the first 18 lessons only), a vocabulary section exemplifying most of the vocabulary words glossed, sometimes a separate grammar notes section, and an exercise section in the front of the volume and an exercise key, a complete (cut by cut) transcript and a (cut by cut) translation of the transcript in the back. (This publication will be sold as a complete set only.) With four 90 min. audio cassette recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1999, 1,870 pages, softcover. 3 books and 4 cassettes $445
Vietnamese Intensive Basic Course (3 Volumes) To-Lan Vu, William P. Hyde This 3 volume course, consisting of one hundred forty lessons and optional accompanying cassette tapes, is designed to teach students all the language skills: speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Together with supplementary materials, it may be completed in nine months and will enable students to pursue advanced studies without the need of an intermediate course. Students participate actively from the first day of the course and at the end, will be able to converse in Vietnamese on a wide range of topics, to read and understand newspaper articles (with limited use of a dictionary), and to transcribe studio-quality tape recordings. (This publication will be sold as a complete set only.) With ten audio recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1998, 1,524 pages, softcover. 3 books and 10 cassettes $545 3 books and 10 CDs $555
Colloquial Vietnamese Colloquial Vietnamese covers all the basics of the Vietnamese language including grammar and speech. The Colloquial series is our most popular series of language courses, due to its excellent quality, low cost, and amazing range of available languages. These are beginning to intermediate level courses, perfect for travellers, brushing up on skills, or supplementary use. Two CDs and a book are included. $79.95 More about Colloquial Language...
Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Language Course for Vietnamese The Rosetta Stone intensive courses assume no prior knowledge of a foreign language and will take the student through the equivalent of a year's college study, teaching both the spoken and written foreign language. Unlike learning in language classrooms, Rosetta Stone is designed to be entertaining and self-paced. You can learn a foreign language when you want, for as long or short a time as you wish. The complete set of Rosetta Stone language CD-ROM courses contains over 8,000 real life color images, plus thousands of words and phrases spoken by native speakers. Available for Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, French, German, Indonesian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Latin, Japanese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Rosetta Stone for Vietnamese Level 1 $269 More information for Rosetta Stone...
EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Vietnamese The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
Talk Business for Vietnamese If you want to succeed in business abroad, then this Talk Business CD-ROM is for you. Aimed at people who already know the basics, it gives the specialised language you need for doing business abroad. It focuses on must-know language ranges from basics like 'what is your website address?' to more advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets. Special features include: a wide range of topics: business meetings, trading, IT, the internet, advertising, negotiations, banking and many more, words spoken by native speakers so you can repeat and learn., quizzes that test your knowledge, the chance to record your pronunciation, compare it to your 'teacher's' - and then award yourself marks for ability, three levels of awards to achieve, automatic localisation - lets you choose the language you learn from, a printable phrasebook of what you've learnt. $49 More about Talk Business...
Global Office Suite Now get Global Writer and Global Office for Office 97/2000/XP in one package for an amazing price! Global Writer is the word processor that lets you write in 100 languages with one keyboard, and Global Office is the enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages - together they provide a complete multilingual suite. This package gives you a savings of $80 over buying these products individually! $299 More information for Global Office Suite...
Global Writer Professional Multilingual Word Processor Global Writer Professional is a word processor that lets you express yourself in 100 languages without learning a new keyboard layout or using stickers. It is very easy to use because it looks and feels like popular Windows applications. Global Writer's built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus make typing faster and more convenient than ever. Best of all, everything you need is included in the box, at an amazingly low price. Shipping weight 1 lb. $129 More information for Global Writer...
Global Office Language Support for Office 97/2000 Now you can write in all major languages from your standard English Windows in Office 97/2000! Unitype Global Office is an enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages to these Microsoft products: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is easy to use, yet powerful enough to support the most demanding tasks of businesses, translation professionals, and academics worldwide. Best of all, the program is simple to install and everything you need is on one CD-ROM. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $250 More information for Global Office...
Ectaco Language Teacher for Windows CD-ROM Dictionaries Language Teacher for Windows is a software version of the Language Teacher electronic handheld dictionaries of Ectaco, Inc. You can use it on any personal computer with the Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating system. A large volume dictionary database and the ability to translate to and from a language allow you to select the exact translation according to your needs. The word-for-word translation mode is very useful when all you need is general sense of a phrase or sentence. Prices range from $79.95 to $109.95, and are available for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Farsi, French, French-Russian, German, German-Polish, German-Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Yiddish. More information and ordering for Ectaco Language Teacher for Windows...
Kim Tu Dien GD 305V Vietnamese Electronic Pocket Dictionary This handy electronic dictionary offers a Lerner and Hauspie Quality Speech pronunciation function in English and Vietnamese. Its main dictionary is comprised of over 500,000 words and phrases; an additional American Heritage English monolingual dictionary will help you better grasp the meaning of English words. Categories in the Practical, Professional and Conversational dictionaries help you to navigate through the word databases. To top it off, an American citizenship practice test is included. Features include a user’s dictionary you can build it yourself; Professional Dictionary that includes the following categories: computer, construction, economics, electronics, and cosmetics; Practical dictionary with the following categories: food, apparel, housing, traffic, and entertainment; Conversational dictionary with categories that include basic conversation, air travel, transportation, personal care, and tourism; Vietnamese idioms; American citizenship practice test; Revision Test; A list of phrasal verbs; an excellent reference section containing math formulas, a list of English names, a travel guide, size equivalents, voltage frequencies, country codes and four different games; external power jack for non-battery operation; 128KB ROM plus 200KB Flash memory; LCD screen with 240x80 dots; headphones and volume control for private listening; telephone directory, memo, schedule and to do list, all data is pc transferable; calendar; world and local time; scientific calculator; unit and currency conversion; loan interest. $329.95 More about Electronic Pocket Dictionaries...
Vietnamese Reference Grammar Laurence Thompson "When Laurence Thompson's original Vietnamese Grammar first appeared in 1965, it went almost instantly to the top of the list of required reading for serious students of the Vietnamese language. It has stayed there ever since but, in recent years, the title has become almost impossible to find, either in bookstores or in libraries, where original copies have often grown woefully ragged and marked up or are now simply missing. In the meanwhile, the author has become aware of a number of minor infelicities and typographical errors requiring correction. Thus, both demand and scholarship have dictated this re-edition." -From the Editor's Note. $42
Reading and Writing in Vietnamese By the University of Hawaii. Paperback $24.00 Hardcover $44.00
Vietnamese - English Glossary of Commercial Terms To-Lan Vu, William Satterthwait, William P. Hyde This glossary of 13,000 entries provides English-speaking businessmen, diplomats, and others dealing with Vietnam and Vietnamese businesses with a comprehensive dictionary of business terms and phrases. Word order is based on standard A through Z now in use in Vietnamese lexical works. 1994, 183 pages, hardbound. $128
Vietnamese/English/Vietnamese Dictionary Bi-directional, newly published and comprehensive. Available in paperback and hardcover. Paperback $21.95 Hardcover $29.95
The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Vietnamese-English Pictures convey meaning more clearly than words alone. The Oxford English/Vietnamese Picture Dictionary presents over 3,600 words in both English and Vietnamese, clearly depicted on 168 pages of full-color, contextualized illustrations. Vocabulary is introduced within 140 topics, which range from basics as food, clothing, and shelter to more specific topics such as the space program, occupations, and sports. An English index includes all the vocabulary words with a clear, easy-to-follow pronunciation guide. A second index in Vietnamese is also included. The dictionary can be used at all levels, by all ages, to teach all language skills. With the components, it provides a complete language development program. It's an invaluable resource every student and teacher needs to have. 3,600 words and color pictures, 140 topics (fruits, anatomy, geography, etc.). Cassettes, transparencies, and workbooks available. English only $27.95 Vietnamese-English $27.95 More about Oxford Picture Dictionary...
201 Vietnamese Verbs A concentrated review of the Vietnamese verb forms with the most commonly used verbs presented one to a page and transliterated into the Roman alphabet. $12.95
Folk Tales For Children Not just for children, this collection of folk stories in Vietnamese and English is one volume in a series of readers designed specifically for students in bilingual/bicultural or multicultural programs. Written and illustrated by Vietnamese educators, these stories depict the richness of the Vietnamese culture and its unique culture and its unique traditions. With this series, Vietnamese children will be able to read in English as well as in their native language stories of great personal and cultural interest. Story of the Bird Named Bim Bip and Other Stories $8.95 The North Wind and the Sun and Other Stories $8.95 A Shadow on the Wall and Other Stories $8.95
Sing 'n Learn Vietnamese Sing 'n Learn Vietnamese helps your children learn the Vietnamese language through favorite songs sung in Vietnam for children of all ages. With 14 traditional melodies, they will enjoy learning about family, animals, numbers, colors and more. Lyrics are written in Vietnamese and English, with illustrations that promote understanding of culture and enhance learning. Pronunciation Guide, Glossary, cultural notes and activity guides are included; comes with 24 page paperback and audio cassette or CD. CD version $19.95 Cassette version $19.95 More about Sing 'n Learn...