Vietnamese Course: Beginners Level 1

This online Vietnamese beginner's course is the perfect course to start your journey and build a solid foundation. Here you'll learn how to communicate in Vietnamese in a relaxed, practical, and interactive class.

Explore how to have conversations with simple vocabulary and basic sentences while being introduced to the beautiful Vietnamese culture. Vietnamese is a tonal language, so our professional tutor will help you to train your ears so you can recognise the different tones that can change the meaning of a word.

At the end of this Vietnamese beginners course, you will have acquired several essential language skills - enough to have a basic conversation with someone from Vietnam. 

Course Highlights

• Build a strong foundation in Vietnamese language skills

• Learn to engage in practical conversations using simple vocabulary and basic sentences

• Train your ears to distinguish and use the various tones that influence word meanings in Vietnamese, a tonal language

• Explore the rich Vietnamese culture as you learn the language

• Continue your learning journey with our Vietnamese Course: Beginners Level 2 upon course completion.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Vietnamese beginners course, you should be able to

• Recognise and speak the different tones, and understand how they correspond to the letters in the Vietnamese alphabet

• Understand the differences between the North and South Vietnamese accents

• Greet people and introduce yourself and others

• Ask for and give directions

• Ask for information about travel, places and people’s professions

• Count in Vietnamese, including lower numbers, as well as the larger numbers used in currency

• Talk about modes of transport, travel times, distance, etc

• Use the past, present, and future tense

• Ask the price of an item or service

• Use prepositions to describe things

• Tell the time and talk about different times of the day, mealtimes and routines, etc.

• Say the days of a week and months of the year

• Use the rules of simple grammar to ask why, when, where questions

• Understand the Vietnamese culture and use appropriate etiquette when communicating in Vietnamese

• Enhanced your career prospects