Dr. Binh Nhu Ngo is the Director of the Vietnamese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and has been teaching Vietnamese there since 1992. He was born and educated in Hanoi and earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has taught Vietnamese and linguistics at Moscow University, and since 1992 he has taught at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) and at a number of universities and colleges in the United States. He has served as the Vice-President of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) and represents Harvard University at the Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA). His other books include Speak & Read Vietnamese (Simon & Schuster) and Continuing Vietnamese (Tuttle).
"This is a superbly constructed textbook written by an experienced
teacher for the benefits of beginning learners of
Vietnamese…Professor Ngo is to be congratulated on his outstanding
achievement; he has indeed produced a powerful tool in the area of
learning resources for Southeast Asian languages." --Nguyen
Dinh-Hoa, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Foreign Languages,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"…It comes with a mp3 CD, which is super important because
Vietnamese is a tonal language and the tones can be subtle to
untrained ears." --I'm Not the Nanny blog
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