I am learning Vietnamese and my Vietnamese boyfriend thought that this would be a good book to learn vocabulary with. However, after receiving it, my boyfriend found that not only was it written from the Hanoi dialect, but many words were spelled incorrectly and were not the common words used in any area of Vietnam. In the end, I was not able to use the material in this book at all. I would suggest you use a dictionary or a phrase book and create your own vocabulary cards.