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First, you'll have to download a Vietnamese input method. I recommend Unikey. If you can't understand the program's options then click on the down arrow and choose English.

Then you'll have to learn how to type Vietnamese. The two most popular methods are TELEX (popular in the North) and VNI (popular in the South).

Here are the rules of TELEX: aw=ă, aa=â, dd=đ, ee=ê, oo=ô, ow or [=ơ, uw or w or ]=ư, f=huyền, s=sắc, r=hỏi, x=ngã, j=nặng. Examples: Thor=Thỏ (heh), sex=sẽ, thuwowngr=thưởng (you can type the accent mark after the word; Unikey will automatically put it in the right place), xooong=xoong (the third o cancels the ô, the same goes for other letters and accent marks).

Here are the rules of VNI: 1=huyền, 2=sắc, 3=hỏi, 4=ngã, 5=nặng, 6=^ 7=? (Ơ, ư), 8=ă, 9=đ. Examples: la1=là, co6ng3=cổng.

Hope this helps!

I recommend the app Memrise. To be able to take Vietnamese courses that were created by the community you have to look them up in the web before and click on the "start learning" button. As soon as you did that the courses will also be visible in the memrise app. It's a bit complicated but possible.

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I've created a memrise course (which is absolutely free) in Northern Vietnamese. It's designed for beginners (but in the progress of extending the course I might made it less beginner friendly, in that case, you can just ignore words that seem unimportant in the beginning)^^

https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-fun-beginner-intermediate/

Anyway. It contains northern Vietnamese audio - unfortunately not always, but especially in the beginning. But there is a way to add audio to everything with an addon (works just on the web, not in the app), as I did - you will find it in my course as well :)

I recommend everyone to take the course on your laptop and not to use the app, because 1. you can add audio to it 2. the app is way tooo easy, they already give you the necessary letters for the answer and you just have to type them in (you won't learn much this way 3. it's easy to ignore the Vietnamese diacritics this way. But they are very important and it would be stupid to do so in the long term.

> do you think my sometimes inaccurate mispronunciation might threaten my language skills in the end?

As someone who tried the learn vocab and grammar first approach, by learning without a tutor (Youtube videos, duolingo, books and course packs), I have no doubt that your ability to communicate will be very poor unless you have someone who can help you with the speaking and listening. It is absolutely nothing like the other (non-tonal) languages I have learned.

If I could have my time over again, I would have started getting Skype vietnamese lessons (eg https://www.tiengvietoi.com/regular-classes , using https://preply.com/ etc).

I would have also gotten my motorbike license. It's true many people learn to ride in Vietnam, but traffic here is often just complete mayhem.

I just checked. 8 seeders on this:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/11662603/Pimsleur_Vietnamese_1

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Even if there are no seeders, just start the torrent. Often one or more seeders will show up.

I have also one for beginner and intermediate learners in case you want to check it out :)
https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-fun-beginner-intermediate/

I've created a memrise course (which is absolutely free) in Northern Vietnamese. It's designed for beginners (but in the progress of extending the course I might made it less beginner friendly, in that case, you can just ignore words that seem unimportant in the beginning)^^

https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-fun-beginner-intermediate/

Anyway. It contains northern Vietnamese audio - unfortunately not always, but especially in the beginning. But there is a way to add audio to everything with an addon, like I did - you will find it in my course as well :)

Svff (southern Vietnamese for foreigners) created free memrise content which includes pronunciation of the words. Here is the link to one of them, you should be able to find the others https://www.memrise.com/course/2253084/basic-level-a1-complete-vietnamese-course/

you could also check out this course:
https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-fun-beginner-intermediate/

it's quite easy to include audio - level 2 tells you how to :)

PS: It's really awesome that you want to go that far to help him!

You could try to learn northern Vietnamese with my course on memrise:
https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-dummies-beginner-intermediate/ :)

You can also try to learn with my Vietnamese course on Memrise:
https://www.memrise.com/course/561054/vietnamese-for-dummies-beginner-intermediate/

Hi, for Southern dialect, you can try this app which is also our app. It's similar a phrasebook. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=simply.learn.vietnamese&hl=en_US

I believe you should list Lingodeer.

They added Vietnamese recently and it's the best app for learning Vietnamese I've seen so far. Weirdly, they haven't updated the app description in Google Play yet.

edit: Oh, and there's also Drops. I haven't tried it out yet but I've heard it teaches Southern Vietnamese which would be of greater use for me.

Beginner here, but I think "Continuing Vietnamese" is quite good for intermediate learners:

http://www.amazon.com/Continuing-Vietnamese-Audio-CD-ROM-Included/dp/0804839751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423149205&sr=8-1