ALG Vietnamese Linguistics Part 4

In the Thai program, at AUA Ratchadamri, Bangkok, students sit and listen for 800 hours before they begin speaking. For Vietnamese, Antonio believes students would need at least that much time. Thai is a difficult, tonal language with numerous vowel sounds not found in English. Vietnamese is even more difficult. Materials need to be invented which focus on learning, passive skills, such as listening and reading, rather than focusing on production skills, speaking and writing. Extensive listening seems to be the only way to absorb these sounds. Students need repetition of perfect, native speaker models in order to eventually be able to produce the sounds themselves. During the course of listening, students are also learning vocabulary, syntax and appropriate usage, the way Thai native speakers manipulate their own language for the purpose of communication.

Although students would generally begin speaking at 800 hours, the entire program is 2,000 hours as it transitions into reading, writing, and speaking practice.
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