I  Personal information.

Name: NGUYEN VAN BEN                         Male

Date of birth: 1954 Natality: Saigon, Vietnam Address: 140/1 Nguyen Tri Phuong P9 Q5 HOCHIMINH City Viet Nam. Previous working place: Urology department, Cho Ray Hospital. Present position: retired. Education: Ph. D. of Urology Degree: MD 1973 - 1979, Ph. D. since 1994. Career starting from: 1980. Specialty: surgery and urology Time spent for specialty: 26 years (1980 - 2006). Achievement: Ranked 1st in the matriculation into Saigon Medicine University 1983, Meritorious Doctor at Chợ Rẫy Hospital 2003.

II  Before 2010

Work position and working place

1980-2006 Physician at Choray Hospital

2007 set up a website vanben.com.vn featuring two copyright dictionaries “Dictionary of English affixes” and “Dictionary of English ending bases”

2009 published books on spoken English

2010 attended the CDLC conference in Maryland Dec 2010, and gave a lecture entitled “Arrangements of three and English word stress”   

III Works

1. Books (in English, in Vietnamese and in French and ...)

Published:

Copyright books (in Vietnamese, in French and in English), publishers wanted

2. Copyright software: “Stressing Bee Game”

3. Website:

Media dictionary, MEDIADIC, explains and illustrates words with pictures and media from copyright and author-permitted sources. English version of Media dictionary is now available and other versions in various languages will be complied, e.g. each language has its own MEDIADIC version. French and Vietnamese ones will appear soon. PICDIC has free versions for young children. Besides, it has also mobile Apps. MEDIADIC is the twenty first century dictionary.

The website http://mediadic.com/ has a free version offered to preschool children. The free version now appears in English and Vietnamese.