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Course
Description
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This intensive intermediate level course develops students' skills in the four main components of the Vietnamese language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Although its emphasis is on learning practical Vietnamese that can be used in everyday life, the course also introduces a range of literature and other texts to promote language acquisition and explore Vietnamese culture. The course begins with a review of orthography and the components of Vietnamese phonetics, comprised of the syllable, tone, onset, glide, nucleus, and coda. It then studies the elements of Vietnamese morphology, syntax, and grammar. In class students participate in conversation practices, games, written exercises, dictation, role plays, translations, and group work. Student also keep a daily journal in Vietnamese. By the end of the course students should be able to engage in conversations on a wide range of topics, read and interpret contemporary literature, and write essays and articles at an intermediate level. *Units reduced to correspond with UC quarter units for comparable course work.
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INTERMEDIATE VIETNAMESE
