Build on your foundation and start communicating more confidently in Vietnamese with our Vietnamese language short courses online!
Ready to take the next step in your Vietnamese learning journey? This course is designed for students who have completed our Vietnamese: Beginners Level 1 course or have a basic understanding of Vietnamese and want to expand their skills.
You’ll build on your existing knowledge, developing your vocabulary, improving your pronunciation, and gaining confidence using Vietnamese in a wider range of everyday situations. Through practical topics and interactive activities, you’ll begin expressing yourself in more detail while strengthening your understanding of sentence structure and grammar.
With continued focus on tones, listening, and real-life communication, you’ll feel more comfortable navigating conversations while also deepening your understanding of Vietnamese culture and etiquette.
By the end of this Vietnamese: Beginners Level 2 course, participants will have developed practical skills and knowledge in areas such as:
- Expanding vocabulary to describe people, places, and everyday situations
- Speaking with greater confidence in longer conversations
- Talking about daily activities, plans, and preferences in more detail
- Ordering food and interacting in social situations
- Asking about prices and participating in simple transactions
- Writing short messages such as simple emails or notes
- Using more complex sentence structures with greater accuracy
- Improving pronunciation and listening skills, particularly with tones
- Demonstrating awareness of Vietnamese cultural etiquette in communication
What will be covered in this Vietnamese: Beginners Level 2 course?
During the course, participants will be guided through key concepts, techniques and approaches that typically include:
Topics
- Describing people, places, and everyday situations
- Daily activities, plans, and routines
- Ordering food and dining conversations
- Shopping and basic bargaining
- Writing simple messages and short texts
- Vietnamese culture and communication etiquette
Language skills
- Developing conversational confidence through guided practice
- Expanding vocabulary for real-life communication
- Strengthening listening and pronunciation skills
Grammar
- Building more complex sentence structures
- Using conjunctions to connect ideas
- Comparative structures
- Classifiers (measure words)
- Descriptive language and expressions
Content may vary slightly depending on class pace, participant interests, and instructor approach.
Who is this Vietnamese: Beginners Level 2 course for?
This course is ideal for:
- Students who have completed our Vietnamese: Beginners Level 1 course, or who have approximately 20–30 hours of prior Vietnamese study
- Anyone looking to build confidence and expand their basic Vietnamese skills
- Learners wanting to communicate more comfortably in everyday situations
Online via Zoom
Zoom details will be provided with your enrolment confirmation.
Requirement: A device with a stable internet connection
What to bring to class:
- Notebook and pen
- Course textbook (see below)
Colloquial Vietnamese – The Complete Course for Beginners
ISBN: 9781138950238
We recommend purchasing your textbook once your course has been confirmed (usually within three working days of the proposed start date). The textbook is not included in the enrolment fee.
Achievement Recognition
Students who attend at least 80% of the course will receive a Certificate of Attendance from Sydney Community College.
This certificate recognises your commitment to developing your Vietnamese language skills.
Vietnamese language bundle
Continue your learning and save — enrol in three Vietnamese language courses and receive an automatic 15% discount.
