Vietnamese Diner: Listen First

How to play: nothing to do but listen — this is the quán lesson as an audiobook, the same words that the Diner - In Class lesson teaches, read to you before you are ever asked a question. Your friends take turns: one of them says each word or sentence in Vietnamese while it appears in their speech bubble, counts down two seconds, says what it means in English while that appears, counts down two seconds, says the Vietnamese once more, counts down three seconds, and moves on to the next — the lesson plays itself end to end, about twelve minutes a level. Use the pause button to stop the reading, and the two arrows to skip forward or back to another word. Below the game screen is every word in the lesson, in the same order it is taught, each with its meaning and a speaker to hear it again. There is no guessing, no timer and no failing — the words come in the same order every time, so each listening is a familiar run-through that prepares the classroom ahead. Each level targets approximately 64 words (max 80), so each lands at about fifteen minutes. All levels together are the whole lesson.