More Vietnamese

What it actually is

Thảo has been writing about learning Vietnamese since 2013, and the archive answers the questions beginners actually get stuck on: which dialect to pick, how tone marks behave in speech, why your pronunciation is not landing, and which resources are worth the money. It is free, ad-light and opinionated in a useful way. It is a blog, not a course, and posting has slowed since she left Vietnam, so treat it as a reference library.

What it covers

• Grammar
• Pronunciation
• Vocabulary

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• Vietnamese

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