Making out in Vietnamese is your guide to the trendy, up-beat, and unbuttoned Vietnamese spoken on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. In Eleven easy chapters this book will introduce you to the plain language you need to meet people, eat out, shop, even paint the town red or fall in love. Thre are no long-winded exercises, no complex rules, no verb drills!! Whether you are a novice in Vietnamese or alrady have some working knowledge of the language, this book will put hundreds of handy expressions at your fingertips.

Making out in Vietnamese goes a step further. Besides telling you what to say in your day-to-day dealings, it also tells you what expressions are too hot to handle. It captures the living language of a country that is only now opening to the west: in Ho Chi Minh City you might take a sip of three-lizard liquor while listening to nhac rap - Vietnamese Rap music. Looking at the words and phrases Vietnam's young generation use gives us a glimpse into the everyday life of an old, rich culture attuning itself to the modern world.