Vietnamese Pronunciation : Northern Dialect

Learn four initial consonants (m, n, b, đ), practice listening and repeating, and answer multiple-choice questions; the next part introduces the two Vietnamese tones.

Master the two northern Vietnamese tones—the mid-level tone with no mark and the grave-accented low-falling tone—and practice listening and repetition for correct pronunciation.

Engage in unit 1 quiz practice by listening and selecting the correct sound you hear, with true or false questions and pronunciation drills aligned with the Vietnamese pronunciation, northern dialect.

Explore three nuclear vowels u, o, and ô in the northern dialect, with back and rooted qualities, lip shapes, tongue positions, and high rising and low falling rising tones.

Explore the northern Vietnamese initial consonants ng, nh, and /k/, including nasal production and tongue-velum positioning, with spellings ng and ng h and tone previews.

Explore the Northern Vietnamese high-rising tone (dấu sắc) and low-falling-rising tone (dấu hỏi), including where they start in a syllable and how the voice rises, with acute accent examples.

Review unit 2 through listening and repeating a series of calls and sounds to practice Vietnamese pronunciation in the northern dialect.

Unit 3 review focuses on listening and repeating to reinforce Vietnamese pronunciation through sentence practice.

Engage in the unit 4 quiz to practice northern Vietnamese pronunciation, identifying correct word forms and sounds through a series of numbered prompts and listening tasks.

Learn the northern dialect initial consonant qu and related sounds through listen-and-repeat practice with examples like quack. Complete a multiple-choice review and preview liberalization in the next part.

In Part two, master labialization in northern Vietnamese pronunciation, focusing on diphthongs starting with you and oh, how vowel opening affects sound, and practice through listen-and-repeat and multiple-choice checks.

Master the northern Vietnamese initial consonants d, gi, s, and x and their non-dialect pronunciations. Practice listening and repeating to hear similarities to czar, zipper, and s sounds.

Master four Vietnamese final consonants m, n, ng, nh in the northern dialect, learn how endings affect preceding vowels, and practice through listening, repetition, and multiple-choice drills.

Engage in unit seven test, part 1: choose the sound you hear; part 3: listen and choose true of phones, all within the northern dialect course.