This is a 347-page textbook edited by Trần Trọng Dương (chief editor), with Phạm Thị Thảo and Hà Đăng Việt. It brings together roughly a decade of university-level teaching and research to offer a clear, durable pathway into Nôm studies, balancing scholarly rigor with hands-on guidance. Structurally, the book opens with five concise theory chapters—on what Nôm is, when it emerged, its text types, periodization, and character structure—before moving into an extensive practice section (from Lesson 6 onward) that trains readers to transcribe and analyze originals across genres and media (poetry, folk verse, tuồng, administrative documents, religious translations; on paper, wood, stone, ceramics). Each lesson pairs a Nôm text with romanization, notes, vocabulary, exercises, and facsimiles, aiming to build core skills for decoding Nôm and parsing character formation.