Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt

 

Teacher


Anke Friedel-Nguyen

 

Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 116

E-Mail: Anke.Friedel-Nguyen (at) hu-berlin.de

Telephone: +49 (0)30-2093-66028

Office hours: appointment via E-Mail


 

Profile

 

Vietnamese is the national and everyday language of Vietnam. This Austro-Asian language, which belongs to the Mon-Khmer branch, is currently spoken by around 100 million inhabitants (2024). Vietnamese is a tonal language with six tones, although some dialects only use four tones. Although a very large part of the vocabulary is based on Chinese, the languages are not related and are very different both phonetically and grammatically. However, while Chinese (Hán Việt) was written in literature and administration in past centuries and a separate script based on Chinese (chữ Nôm) was later developed, the modern Vietnamese script (Quốc ngữ) is based on the Latin alphabet, supplemented by a series of diacritical marks to represent phonetic features.

 

Course Overview


Vietnamese 1

  • 4 SWS, winter term
  • Written exam


Vietnamese 2

  • 4 SWS, summer term
  • Written and oral exam


Vietnamese 3

  • 4 SWS, winter term
  • Written exam


Vietnamese 4

  • 4 SWS, summer term
  • Oral exam

 

Vietnamese 5

  • 2 SWS
  • Written or oral exam (M.A. only)