This book is written for foreigners studying Vietnamese not only in Vietnam but also in other countries and for those who want to study by themselves. The author’s experience in teaching Vietnamese to foreigners in Vietnam and also learners overseas has shown that if a textbook is too difficult and complicated, learners find it difficult to digest. So, although they have finished a course, they are still unable to speak Vietnamese. Thus this book has been simplified to make learning easier and much explanation is given in English.

This is modern Vietnamese textbook written for people today. In addition to familiar topics such as “shopping”, “eating-drinking”, “traffic”, “health”, “sports”, etc., there are also new topics (which have never appeared in the other textbooks published in Vietnam before) such as “telephoning”, “bank-currency”, etc.