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Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader : Bilingual Stories and Essays about Contemporary Vietnam (With Free Online Audio Recordings) - Binh Ngo

Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader

Bilingual Stories and Essays about Contemporary Vietnam (With Free Online Audio Recordings)

By: Binh Ngo

Paperback | 1 December 2025

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Learn about contemporary Vietnam and boost your language skills by reading articles drawn from the pages of Vietnamese newspapers in Vietnamese and English!

This innovative language book presents 45 real-world articles drawn from Vietnamese newspapers with parallel Vietnamese and English texts presented on facing pages. The articles are graded for beginning-, middle- and upper-level language abilities and are accompanied by vocabulary lists, grammar and cultural notes, and exercises. Intended for classroom use or independent study. In these articles, readers will learn about:

  • Caves with stunning underground lakes, wavelike ceilings, stalactites and stalagmites
  • A popular food stall in Ho Chi Minh City where two sisters sell BBQ pork to night owls
  • Young people who move to a new city offering efficient public transport and attractive amenities
  • Former US and Vietnamese fighter pilots who fought during the Vietnam War and now correspond and meet each other regularly
  • A theater director who put her house and car up for sale to save her theater after the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Plus dozens of other fascinating stories about contemporary life in Vietnam!

Compiled and written by Prof. Bing Ngo, a teacher with three decades of experience teaching Vietnamese at Harvard University, this book is carefully crafted to encourage a better understanding of the language and the culture. It''s an exciting addition to Tuttle''s groundbreaking series of language learning books, offering new and fun way to increase your language abilities.

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