A pocket-sized language guide with useful phrases and a helpful pronunciation guide!

Survival Vietnamese contains all the phrases needed for any situation you will encounter when visiting Vietnam. Perfect for tourists, students and businesspeople, it features simple phonetic pronunciations for all Vietnamese words as well as a guide to the tones of Vietnamese—to ensure you can make yourself understood!

A special chapter on smartphone and tech terms helps you stay connected when you are there and to set-up the local ride hailing and digital payment apps so you can get around. It even has a handy pocket dictionary at the back!

This phrasebook will help you:

• Make connections — Clearly communicate in-person and digitally with Vietnamese speakers
• Be social — Talk about your favorite social media accounts and learn about new viral trends on the Vietnamese web
• Make a good impression — Understand and follow Vietnamese customs, traditions, and social etiquette
• Look your best — Take a seat in the barber's chair for a cut and a shave, or get some new acrylics at the nail salon
• Stay healthy — Fill a prescription, describe an ailment to a doctor, and communicate during a medical emergency
• And much more!

Bac Hoai Tran has taught Vietnamese at U.C. Berkeley for over three decades. He has served as the Vietnamese coordinator for the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2000, and has written many textbooks, phrasebooks and dictionaries for beginning learners of Vietnamese.