Can anyone recommend a Vietnamese course for beginners? I was digging around yesterday but I couldn’t find anything that seemed good. I’ve read some focus on the Northern Accent and some on the Southern Accent (someone somewhere recommended learning the Southern Accent or dialect.) Anyway, I was looking for something that had a book and accompanying CDs. Just a basic course.
Colloquial Vietnamese: The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd edition
Colloquial is a brand name. Good publisher in the UK.
Doesn’t mean that they teach you only colloquial phrases.
I took a look at that one but it doesn’t appear to be in print anymore and it didn’t say that it came with CDs, which I am hoping to get. Also, I’m curious to know which style of speech it it - if it’s the Southern Dialect or the Northern Dialect.
It came with CDs and was reprinted in 2015. Don’t know what dialect.
Is this the one? It says book only 
Amazon.com
Yes. They offer two options. Just the book or a package with book and audio.
It looks like the audio is accessed online instead of via an accompanying set of CDs. That’s okay, I don’t mind that, although it is nice to have something to load into iTunes.
Okay. Used to come with 2 CDs and cassettes before that.