Contemporary Vietnamese, Upper-intermediate Level, is a general Vietnamese course, aimed at enabling learners to communicate successfully in both spoken and written Vietnamese at intermediatelevel. The course will be conducted by bilingual teachers from Vietnam, who possess teaching qualifications, rich language-teaching experience, noble teachers’ qualities, and most importantly, speak standard Vietnamese. Learners will develop integrated language skills during the course and will be able to speak, listen, read and write upper-intermediate-level Vietnamese by the end of the course.  

In this course, students are still in the language journey in Vietnam with more destinations to go such as Newspaper Agents, Nursing Home, Women’s Organization, Science Development Center, Arts Gallery, and so on. This means that students have more authentic contents and situations to practise Vietnamese language and expand vocabulary. This course will go further into enabling students to distinguish different usage aspects of synonyms and complicated similar grammatical structures. Students will be able to discuss economic, politic and social issues, and they can use abstract meaning words, especially, expressions and idioms. All these will prepare students for Vietnamese for Specific Purposes courses.

2 sessions per week, 10 sessions in total

From Monday to Saturday

Students will be engaged in different situational and communicative language activities such as role play, interviews, information gap, games, language exchanges, survey, pair work, grammar quizzes and so on. Teachers will analyze students’ needs, set contexts and design tasks for students to practise the language.

Text books are professionally designed and written by a professional team of linguistic experts and language teachers from National University of Vietnam and the Institute of Vietnam Studies and Science Development, following the communicative approach in language teaching. The books are targeted at adult foreign learners and were published in 2004 in Vietnam by the World Publishing House.

Participants who have attained an attendance rate of 90% and above will be presented with certification of completion. Students’ portfolios, including all students’ papers, assessment sheets and tests, will be given back to students by the end of the course.

*Course fee: Please contact our course consultant for more information
*Course fee excludes: $50 textbook and materials fee and GST

All of our teachers are native speakers from Vietnam, who hold Master or Bachelor degrees in language teaching or in other relevant fields. Their qualifications have been approved by MOE. They communicate in both Vietnamese and English. They are enthusiastic, responsible, and dedicated.