Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary is the most up-to-date and compact Vietnamese dictionary. It is designed primarily for English-speakers learning or using Vietnamese, but also caters to Vietnamese speakers learning or using English. The dictionary is divided into two distinct parts: Vietnamese-English, and English-Vietnamese, with a total of 15,000 entries. The entries in both sections cover everyday words that are likely to be used in educational, cultural and tourist settings. The entries in both sections have information on the part(s) of speech of the headword, useful meanings, common collocations, idiomatic expressions and sample sentences. The Vietnamese-English entries also list the source of loanwords, of which many came from