This Vietnamese translation manual for nursing aides is designed to improve speaking skills of U.S. immigrants. Each section contains previews in Vietnamese as well as exercises and dialog situations that include English translations. Sections on introductions, time, meals, parts of the body, clothing and common articles, telephone situations, types of pain, and interviewing new patients in the hospital are included. A reference section covers the following areas: telling time; military time; expressions about time; kinds of food; word order for position words; verbs concerning today, yesterday, and tomorrow; hospital vocabulary on surgery; the internal body; abbreviations in the hospital; and temperature. (SW)