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From that definition, we can see that the production of english word stress by vietnamese speakers also lacks pitch height and vowel quality. Pimsleur esl from vietnamese course this is a stateoftheart esl course for speakers of vietnamese. This guide highlights problems vietnamese speakers are likely to have in learning english because of differences between the two languages and suggests ways of helping vietnamese students of english. The book2 language course english vietnamese is also available as the iphone app learn. Pretty much impossible, if you ask the vietnamese themselves.
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