Vietnamese With Pops

You can speak Vietnamese on your first morning in Hanoi. Not read it, not memorize tables, speak it, tones and all. Vietnamese With Pops is a sixteen-chapter spoken course: an English guide explains one small idea, a native Vietnamese speaker says it, you say it yourself in the pause, and the course quietly builds that idea into the next one. Vietnamese grammar is simple: verbs never change. The work is in the six tones and in knowing how to address people, and this course trains both by ear from the first chapter.

The course follows a traveler from north to south: Hanoi's streets, coffee and bia hơi, a night train to Huế, the tailors and lanterns of Hội An, and Saigon and the Mekong Delta, where a chapter tunes your ear to the Southern accent. It is voiced by native speakers in standard Northern (Hanoi) Vietnamese, with a Southern voice for the Saigon chapters.

Compiled and edited by Pops. The narration is produced with digital voices.