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Title: Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook (LONELY PLANET VIETNAMESE PHRASEBOOK) by Thinh Hoang, Quynh-Tram Trinh, Tinh My Hoang ISBN: 0-86442-661-5 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad for travellers, bad for Vietnamese learners.
Comment: I've been studying Vietnamese for 4 months and can speak it quite fluently now, I bought this book before I started learning anything, it was just too difficult to use for those who don't know Vietnamese at all (most travellers). Now because I know more Vietnamese, I tried to re-read this book and I still find this quite useless. The conversation are organized by topics rather than by alphabetical order so it limits yourself from point and choose and talk with Vietnamese with the same kinds of topics again and again. Very poorly designed, almost useless and very disappointing, probably one of the worst LP phrasebooks on the market (I have used the Hindi/Urdu, Persian, French and German before). Vocabulary list is not as comprehensive as the Rough Guide, the tiny (*tiny!) dictionary at the back doesn't even have the word "spoon"! This phrasebook is, however, much more popular than the Rough Guide because of the "reputation" and popularity of the Lonely Planet.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Appropriate Title
Comment: As an individual who has spent about 2 years learning Vietnamese I believe this to be a very good book. The comments of the previous two reviewers should be dismissed (as one did not read the book and the other is already fluent). As long as you understand the setup and reasoning for the layout of a phrasebook this book will not dissappoint anyone. Unlike a dictionary where words are alphabetically listed, this book has similar items arranged (i.e. foods, health, animals). If you went to Vietnam and needed a book to take with you this is the only one I would recommend. It will allow you to survive; and, if you had trouble pronouncing words you could also point to the phrase you were trying to say (this of course would only work if the other individual was literate). If you are planning on learning the language at all (other than for a brief trip) then I'd strongly recommend getting other books (Elementary Vietnamese is good, but Colloquial Vietnamese is awful).
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent phrasebook, but missing a couple of things...
Comment: I don't speak Vietnamese to rate the translations and phrasing used in this pocket-sized guide, but I have used a number of Lonely Planet phrasebooks for languages that I do know more about. This guide follows the format of those other guides, broken down into sections by situation, with a 2-way dictionary at the back and a pronounciation guide at the beginning of the book.
Two notable omissions. There is not a section on "love and dating" as there is in every other LP Phrasebook I've used.
Also, unlike the Russian phrasebook, which contains the english phrase, a phonetic pronounciation, and then the actual spelling, this book does not contain a phonetic spelling. For a language likely to be as difficult as Vietnamese for native English speakers and considering that such speakers are the book's target audience, phonetic spellings (indicating inflection as well) would help a lot.
Still, a decent phrasebook as LP ones tend to be.
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Title: Lonely Planet Vietnam (LONELY PLANET VIETNAM) by Mason Florence, Virginia Jealous ISBN: 1740593553 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Vietnam (Rough Guide. Vietnam) by Jan Dodd, Mark Lewis ISBN: 1843530953 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: 20 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet World Food Vietnam (Lonely Planet World Food Guides) by Richard Sterling ISBN: 186450028X Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Vietnamese/ English, English, Vietnamese by Langenscheidt Staff, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 1585730599 Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (LONELY PLANET HO CHI MINH CITY) by Mason Florence, Robert Storey ISBN: 0864426143 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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