The Voice of Vietnam radio service provides 38 lessons for English speakers to learn Vietnamese. These used to be available for download in RealAudio format, but the website has recently [note: this was circa 2006 :-)] been updated to a format that cannot be accessed on any of my systems … I had some of the files, but I could no longer find the downloadable versions online. I eventually discovered the files I was missing through some detective work in Google’s cache and the Wayback Machine. Also, RealAudio files won’t play on my iPod. So, here are the lessons in their original RealAudio files, here are the lessons as MP3 files (there is also an archive of all the lessons). Please don’t link to these files without informing me. This site can’t handle the bandwidth. Also, I don’t own the copyright in these files, that clearly belongs to VOV.
(originally published 2007.02.15)