Two weeks in Hanoi
I had the pleasure to learn Vietnamese with Linh at LTL in Hanoi. Linh is a great personality and adjusted quickly to my learning goals, which were mostly practice of listening and speaking. Throughout the course we covered countless different topics and I left with a vocabulary list of almost 1000 new words and phrases, often connected to very specific topics. As was mentioned in Reviews before, I also really enjoyed how Linh understands to weave different aspects of Vietnamese culture into the conversațions. It made me eager to learn more and read more about Vietnamese culture. I consider myself a very nerdy and structural Language learner. Something my former teachers were not really helpful with was the "breaking up" of words and their meanings. I was always told to just learn the words and take them for granted. Linh, however, without that I asked for it, used the meanings of individual syllables to map and connect whole word fields for me. This was something I longed for since I started learning Vietnamese and I really enjoyed how she helped me draw the different connections between words. I really enjoyed my time and think I made a very clear progress.