What language software program do you recommend for learning Vietnamese?

Question

I am looking for a software program for learning Vietnamese. Does anyone know of one out there that actually teaches the correct dialect (south vs north vietnam)? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm half Vietnamese and just married a Viet girl a couple months ago. I had not spoken Vietnamese since I was a young child, and had to learn it again very quickly. That in mind, I've reviewed several programs to learn Vietnamese.

The two most popular programs are Rosetta Stone ( http://www.rosettastone.com ) and Pimsleur ( http://www.simonsays.com ). Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Rosetta Stone uses audio and visual technique, which requires it to be used on a computer. Pimsleur is almost entirely audio and can be played on a CD player.

Rosetta Stones is probably a better way to learn Vietnamese or any language, but Pimsleur is more convenient because all you need is a CD player.

Good luck to you!

Answer 2

There is no simple answer. The problem (one of them) is that C or, say, tcl are relatively quick to pick up as languages, but it takes an extraordinary amount of code to do anything impressive. The Object Oriented Languages (C, C++, C#, Python ...) are generally much more powerful and can make quite significant programs with nice user interfaces, all from not that much code. Most programmers would always use an Object Oriented Language for all but the simplest of programs. But the downside is that there is quite a big initial overhead of stuff you need to understand before you can really get going at all. And that stuff may seem pretty abstract if you haven't done any programming yet.

Answer 3

Contact the Vietnamese Professionals Society www.vps.org. They have VPSabc, a software program to teach Vietnamese.

Answer 4

As for software, I haven't seen any. I've only found a bunch of textbooks but I think some of them might come with a CD.

With the dialect, it's hard to find one that will offer both dialect.