Đình Hoà Nguyễn Knihy

An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed and glossed.Prof. Nguyễn Dinh-Hoa has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into Vietnamese without veneer .

A collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.

Includes 50,000 definitions and pronunciation tones for northern, central, and southern parts of Vietnam.

This up-to-date and comprehensive Vietnamese-English dictionary is designed to meet the needs of English speakers who are learning and using Vietnamese on a daily basis. Useful information on Vietnamese pronunciation and language pointers are included