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 Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:40 pm
Welcome to the Vietnamese General Discussion! This is where we discuss everything related to the Vietnamese language, including, but not limited to:
-asking specific questions about Vietnamese vocabulary and grammar (people who can speak Vietnamese fluently can help answer others' questions)
-recommendations for Vietnamese dictionaries, websites, etc
-and everything else about the beautiful langauge of Vietnam! 3nodding
Please note that although speaking in Vietnamese is allowed here, it is not mandatory.
Let's start off with a few facts about the Vietnamese language:
Spoken in: Vietnam, USA, Cambodia, China, France, and various other countries
Total number of speakers: 80 million +
Language Family: Austroasiatic
Mon-Khmer
(both of the above debated, but still generally accepted; as some believe the Viet-Muong is a language isolate)
Regulated by: Hanoi Institute of Social Sciences (pending)
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:42 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:46 pm
If anyone here has any other reccommendations for websites/dictionaries/grammar books etc, please feel free to tell us about them in this thread.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:28 pm
I speak vietnamese and I am very fluent with it because I'm Vietnamese. 3nodding If you want to say something in Vietnamese just ask me.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:29 pm
Just out of curiosity, is Vietnamese similar to Chinese? ninja
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:51 pm
Proudly_Jewish Just out of curiosity, is Vietnamese similar to Chinese? ninja No.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:35 pm
Kimmy Kim Proudly_Jewish Just out of curiosity, is Vietnamese similar to Chinese? ninja No. kk, thanks ^^
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:17 am
Xin Chao, I am too, vietnamese but I'm not fluent though ... I know how to write some and read some
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:20 pm
My future step-mother is Vietnames...I might learn the language. Is it a good language?
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:37 pm
All languages are good in their own way, you know? Vietnamese is hard to pronounce if you haven't spoken it before. Like... Most of the people I know can't pronounce my Vietnamese name. It's one syllable, but they pronounce it in two, because they can't say it. There are tones to it... And the writing has LOADS of symbols... sweatdrop My mom got mad because I couldn't catch on to the symbols (her own fault for not letting me go to Vietnamese school...)...
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:38 am
I'd love to learn Vietnamese, cause I'm friends a little girl in Vietnam, and it would be terrific if I could communicate with her without having to have all our letters translated in between! I'm trying to teach myself from a book, but it doesn't help much with the pronounciation. Is it true that there are six tones in Vietnamese?
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:36 pm
Kimmy Kim Proudly_Jewish Just out of curiosity, is Vietnamese similar to Chinese? ninja No. I'm not a fluent speaker of Vietnamese by any means, but I think that might be a bit murkier of a question than just a straight yes/no. I have a few Vietnamese folk songs that my girlfriend (Vietnamese born in the US) sent over that are on my playlist, and my Taiwanese roommate heard one and thought it was a southern Chinese dialect at first. Forget which one in particular he said it resembled. I found an online dictionary for Vietnamese a while back here if anyone's interested. It looks like it's down at first when you click it, but it seems to have just relocated. There's a downloadable version linked there either way at the present time. Out of curiosity, what are some of the major differences between Vietnamese as it's spoken in Saigon and Hanoi?
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:30 pm
I can't believe there is actually a Vietnamese thread back here, seeing as how most people I meet have no idea that the country even exists.
I can sort of speak it, but not fluently anymore--darn my parents for refusing to speak to me in Vietnamese, darn them, I say. But, I think I can be called "semi-fluent." I can understand fairly well, but speaking is a problem for me since I can't seem to remember the most important word in the sentence and I have a weirdo accent. If I had someone to talk to everyday, though, (My parents talk back and forth from English to Vietnamese because they forget..) I would be just fine in a matter of weeks, probably.
I can read it, but I'll slave over the word for sometimes a half an hour before I get it. My grandmother wanted to hit me because I couldn't read what she pointed to in a Vietnamese newspaper. And, if I read, I can't understand...I'll say the words, but I'll be so focused on pronouncing it, I won't be able to understand them.
But it's funny, because my name is Vietnamese and people can never pronounce it or spell it right. No matter how many times I tell them they are wrong, they just spell it weird. I have learned to accept that. And for the pronouncing thing, I just answer to anything that sounds remotely close.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:34 am
Kimyko I can't believe there is actually a Vietnamese thread back here, seeing as how most people I meet have no idea that the country even exists.
I can sort of speak it, but not fluently anymore--darn my parents for refusing to speak to me in Vietnamese, darn them, I say. But, I think I can be called "semi-fluent." I can understand fairly well, but speaking is a problem for me since I can't seem to remember the most important word in the sentence and I have a weirdo accent. If I had someone to talk to everyday, though, (My parents talk back and forth from English to Vietnamese because they forget..) I would be just fine in a matter of weeks, probably.
I can read it, but I'll slave over the word for sometimes a half an hour before I get it. My grandmother wanted to hit me because I couldn't read what she pointed to in a Vietnamese newspaper. And, if I read, I can't understand...I'll say the words, but I'll be so focused on pronouncing it, I won't be able to understand them.
But it's funny, because my name is Vietnamese and people can never pronounce it or spell it right. No matter how many times I tell them they are wrong, they just spell it weird. I have learned to accept that. And for the pronouncing thing, I just answer to anything that sounds remotely close. What is your name? Is it the tones that makes it hard to pronounce? I'd like to know a little about Vietnamese... I'll go googling now. ^^
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