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1. If you write this in the Vietamese language, which is it? I know that the first word is "Tran", I dont know about the next two.

2. If you translate the name (its a proper noun) int KOrean what is it in Korean? And the pronunciation...

tnx.

Okay I was the other days at a nail salon (yes, I'm metro) and while I was talking to the girl taking care of me I asked her about whether the capital of VietNam was either Hanoi or Saigon. Trying to keep the conversation going. She shook her head when I mentioned Hanoi and emphatically responded with Saigon. Then she began talking with other employees in Vietnamese and next thing I know they're gathered around her. While I don't understand the language, I did pick up the words, Hanoi, Saigon, and Ho Chi Minh. It's not like they appeared angry or anything but I sorta perceived they might've been making fun of me among themselves. So for my question, was the question I asked considered offensive or rude or whatnot among the Vietnamese population? And second, just out of curiosity, what could they've been saying about me?
okay in concern to the last answerer, I was under the impression that they were making fun of me b/c of the tone they were speaking in and certain gestures they were making. I speak 2 other languages besides English and lived the first 14 years of my life in a country that was not the US

I am full Asian American (mostly Vietnamese, some Chinese) and I speak Vietnamese relatively well. I have one of those traditional strict Asian parents who want me to marry another Asian, preferably Vietnamese. They tell me that half white/half Vietnamese girls are trouble... but my goodness a lot of them are gorgeous! I've asked my friends/family and they all tell me that, for the most part those girls usually dislike their Asian heritage and want to be full white. So idk tell me what you think! =)

I'm just curious if an dating relationship or an long term marriage relationship could actually work out if you married someone from outside your culture. Say like, if i married an Chinese girl and i am Vietnamese would it actually work out for the both of us ? That would mean that she and i have to speak to each other in English because we can't speak other languages. Do any of you guys think a marriage or an relationship could work out if you get into a relationship with someone outside your culture ?

Besides Rosetta Stone, because that is just freakishly expensive on my budget.

Dems in Vietnam: Voted for troops to go, voted for troop increases, later regretted it, sought to sabotage for political gains. TWO YEARS After troops were withdrawn they yanked funding to the South Vietnamese Army defending the fledgling South Vietnamese democracy and the North Vietnamese (supported by the Soviets) invaded and killed 1.5 million South Vietnamese six weeks later. The pictures of US Army helicopters plucking desperate south vietnamese in the way of certain death by the NVA off the rooftops of the US embassy are still vivid. Those were the very few lucky ones.
The dead cannot speak, but if they could they would say that the democrats are prepared to create yet another holocaust for political gains, by prematurely yanking support from Iraqis. Their democratically elected government WANTS the US there, and if they say leave, the US will leave. But the democrats would rather millions die than see any rep success, plus MORE terror hits will be forthcoming-anarchy!
Again TWO FULL YEARS AFTER WE WITHDREW the Dems yanked funding to assure sabotage of the South Vietnamese Democracy and 1.5 million died.
We were not there fighting any more.
The Dems put politics over 1.5 million lives. They will do the same with Iraq.
First sabotage: Pull Out and watch it implode. Second Sabotage: Yank all support to Iraqis in any form to assure ashes and death.
The problem is the democrats are STUPID, this is NOT Vietnam, the ME matters to the US due to oil and terrorism. The dems think they will make political points, but we aren't buying their ticket this time --- we see their ruthless agenda, the fallout, the holocaust and terrorism will be the fault of the democrats--it's their choice. Abrupt pullout is NOT what Americans want, they want troops home AND peace in Iraq--but the democrats will abuse the intention to sabotage.
SHAME

or language, they only use little french words and thats just because they dont have a word for it like house hold items. No one in vietnam ever try to show off that they were mix with french, those acutally mixed, will get people to make fun of them

while filipinos they were colonized by the spanish, and now everybody in filipno think/or hope to be mixed with spain. and glorify that they grandpa/grandma was white so they 1 quarter white

I just turned 18, freshmen in College and I have a 22 year old Vietnamese boyfriend. I love him a lot and he loves me as well. But the thing is, I can tell his mom does not like me at all. I'm Asian as well, half Laotian and half Tai-dam, so I know it's not a racial issue. They came to America when my boyfriend was only 8, so she's very traditional. She really wants him to marry a Viet girl, so I think she hates me just because I'm not Viet. At first when I met her she LOVED me, she saw me she came up to me started hugging and kissing me right away. She even started crying and made me pinky promise to be with her Son, and to always love him. Its pretty much because she's at the stage where she wants grandchildren already. I don't think she realizes how young I am. She also kept staring at me and kept commenting on how beautiful I was and how happy she was her son finally found someone like me. Of course she said this in Viet, my boyfriend had to translate for me. I loved her at first, but in a couple weeks, I got a bad vibe from her. I'm wonderful with parents/grandparents and I can tell when people like me. And I could tell she didn't like me, she wouldn't smile at me any more or talk to me, and she'd always find some reason to yell at my boyfriend for just because she couldn't yell at me. She even cancelled my boyfriend's cell phone plan so he wouldn't be able to talk to me. This came out of no where! I didn't do anything or say anything to her. I'm very cultured, which is very rare to find a kid in my generation like that now a days. So I know how to be respectful and polite. Now I don't ever want to go over to his house knowing that his mother hates me. He even told me he doesn't think she likes me either. Oh yeah i forgot to mention I'm going to school 2 hours away from him, so I don't see him as much. I'm a good person, I'm a simple girl, infact I always offer to pay for him when we go out, Mcdees would make a good enough date for me, I'm a great cook, I'm studying to be a doctor, I model, really family oriented, respectful, nice, drama free, & do volunteer work to help with kids. What more can she ask for!? Also I'm trying really hard to learn Vietnamese just for her, but the language is soo hard, its soo different from the other two I already know. Any Advice?

P.S. I'm sorry this is really lengthy!

I am having a interracial wedding ceremony and reception. I have some of my family members who do not speak or read English and would probably be offended if I sent them an invitation in English. I need help with translating the invitations into Vietnamese. I also need help finding a template for the RSVP cards. I went to my parents for help, but they are just not sure how to "correctly" word the RSVP card and invitation without offending any of the elders or family members. Thank you so much in advance for all of your help. I'm really stressing about this.

I know how to say it but i want to write and post it on the wall for my mom to remember to open the vent when she cooks

I need to learn Vietnamese but my parents are always busy and my sister is only 4 years odl and my two older brothers need to learn it as well....now a lot, but i need to learn more, to speak it fluently lol...my parnets are trying to help us wioth it as hard as they can....but they're busy, so i doubt they'll have time.

I work at a small grocery store. There is an old Vietnamese couple that shops there often, but they don't speak much English, which makes it hard to communicate. Is there any good sites that could teach me simple conversational words like: Numbers, greetings, and other such things that may be useful in my situation?

im viet and i love the lanuage of those countries. do you think it will take me long to learn them. i heard chinese controlled vietnam for 1000 years so will the lanuage be similar to china or at least will i be able to pronounce it well??

Do you know there are more Vietnamese native speakers (people who speak Vietnamese as their mother tongue) than there are French, German or Italian native speakers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Do you also know Vietnam is larger than Great Britain, Italy and Korea (North and South Korea combined)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area

Do you know that there are more Vietnamese than there are Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans , Italians or Koreans? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

So why are many people (including many Vietnamese) still referring to Vietnam as a tiny country when it's bigger and more populated than many major world powers? Are they ill-informed (for most non-Vietnamese) or having an inferiority complex (for most Vietnamese) or both?

My BF and I have been dating over 2 years. We talk so many times about our future, our engagement, and our wedding. We want to have an engagement by the end of december, and our wedding will be happen next year either on March or November of next year. However he talk about it a lots but not making any effort to make it happen. I am so tired of talking to him about it and get to the point that don't want it anymore. We are not young, we both are in early 30 and have stable career.

In our culture (vietnamese) engagement is very important and it take a lot of time to plan. 2 months is not enough to plan and do everything. I wonder what is he thinking? everytime i talk to him about it, he still says it will be on December but i have gave up on that. And don't want to talk about it anymore. My aunt, uncle and everybody ask when we are getting marriage. My parents on the other hand have gave up on it, and so am I.

Especially those from big cities like Ho Chi Minh or Hanoi. I'm doing a cultural study. Are they conservative or also a bit liberal? Do they speak English well. How are they when it comes to dating? What are they like and how do they behave if they date foreign men? How westernized is the culture, when it comes to dancing, having fun, going to bars?

Are they aggressive? Is it true, I've read somewhere that Vietnamese women are submissive to their men? What is it like to court or take out a Vietnamese women on dates? Are they opinionated? Do a lot of Vietnamese women smoke and drink? Are they gentle, passive, soft spoken and graceful? Or are there liberal Vietnamese women, open minded, strong and aggressive? If so, how are these women viewed?

If a Vietnamese woman comes across a person that is brash, aggressive or strong, how will they react? Will they be shocked and turned off?

Thank you in advance. Sorry for all the questions. I'm trying to learn everything I can about Vietnamese women. I know there's a stereotype about Vietnamese women. I'd also like to learn how women really are especially in big cities.

i usually live in america, but i went to vietnam on vacation. i know the vietnam audition website, but how do i register. i can semi-read but not very well and i don't speak vietnamese very well. where do i go
i'm vietnamese. i just happen to grow up in america cause my parents moved there.

Hi
The name is pronounced smi like smi(le) smile. It is a girls name. Im not sure how it is written. Is there anyone vietnamese or anyone else who can give me the correct spelling?

I plan to learn either korean and/or japanese in college next year. i think it could help my future because i want to get into the technology buisnesses like cell phones or maybe gaming. so my question is it a good idea to do this? it seems interesting. I speak english and vietnamese.

Hello,

I'm a freshman, will take the class probably in spring '11. My parents speak Vietnamese, I speak little. I will be going to a community college, CHIN 101 is worth 5 credits.

I was also wondering, if a class has more credits, will it be a hard?????

btw I am majoring in Nursing, I am doing a transfer to a university.

Thank you!

Best Wishes to all!

Please don't say I'm racist, that's the last thing I ever want to be thank you very much.
Anyways some time ago me and my friend who's from pakistan got into a debate whether Pakis, afghans, etc. are asian or Arab.
She considers herself 100% asian and brags about it all day.
(Yes, every body should be proud of their race but she talks about it 24/7.....)
Then This dummy said something racist to my korean friend. She wasn't offended, she just brushed it off. Whereas my paki friend got all pissed and kept talking about how he shouldn't talk about her like that
and then she brought out the asian pride stuff....
Yes I'm aware Geographically they are asian. But some people say their not and their arab and asians are vietnamese, koreans, chniese, etc...?
I started wondering about this when these two incidents happened...

Help..?

hello,
My name is Huong and I am vietnamese. I am unemployed (not allowed to work since my visa is F2) so i have plenty of time. I live in central Los Angeles (90006). If any of you live near to my place and want to learn Vietnamese, i would be really willing to help. My intention is to make friends and to help other learn my native language. I myself love learning foreign languages so it would be very nice if you know or are learning Korean or Chinese.
thanks a lot!

'm a high school student and not a fluent English speaker ,and yet i can speak other language very well (Vietnamese). I just want to have a job that on weekend or evening afterschool just in order to pay for my own auto insurance and some extra money for hanging out like 300 or 400 bucks a month would be perfect even 200 is fine .I did apply to Target but it seems like they would never contact me .I'm in Garden Grove city , CA .Can i have any guide ?

In the poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, Allen Ginsberg says

"O but how many in their solitude weep aloud like me. On the bridge over the Republican River almost in tears to know how to speak the right language, on the frosty broad road uphill between highway embankments, I search for the language that is also yours, almost all our language has been taxed by war. Radio antennae high tension wires ranging from Junction City across the plains, highway cloverleaf sunk in a vast meadow, lanes curving past Abilene to Denver filled with old heroes of love, to Wichita where McClure's mind burst into animal beauty drunk, getting laid in a car in a neon misted street 15 years ago, to Independence where the old man's still alive who loosed the bomb that's slaved all human consciousness and made the body universe a place of fear."

The part I'm concerned with is where he says "almost all language has been taxed by war", what do you think he meant by that? Do you think that language has really been formed mainly around war and politics of war? If so do you think you can maybe give me some reference to how you know this, it doesn't seem to far fetched to me, considering humans by nature probably have been at war since we've developed linguistics. I understand this was an anti-war song protesting the Vietnam war, and how the politicians were using words to hide the casualties of the war, and how Ginsberg used this poem to reclaim literature in a way for peaceful purposes. Just wondering if all language is really taxed in a way by war.

Sorry for any grammar or spelling errors.

I know that my history comes from trieu chau, so that might narrow down the surname a bit. I'm vietnamese, but my ancestors came from china so I'm trying to touch base with my roots. Thanks ahead of time for the help.

I speak English and to me German and Vietnamese sounds harsh. French and Italian sounds pleasant

So, I'm just curious what English sounds like to others who didnt grow up speaking it?

I'm Vietnamese , i just came to USA , and my English is not very well . I want to practice listening and speaking , i tried on the NEWS but they speak too quick i can't understand....or ask them to repeat. Is there anyway ?
Thanks ,but it's really hard to find an american friend here ,here is just a bunch of Asian .I really want to have conversations with who can speak english, that's fine .

I always tip 20%
Why would I worry? We hangout on weekends.

Hi, I'm an International student in Texas. English is actually an foreign language to me. I learned English the past 2 years and I think I'm ok at it now.
However, my college required me to have 2 semester of a single foreign language, of course other than English. They don't accept my native language, Vietnamese, as a foreign language.
So what foreign language should I learn? Spanish or French? Which one is easier?
Thanks a lot, everyone!

For some weird reason my crazy bi polar nephew does this when he gets lonely and he would dress up as a girl from head to toe. He would wear heels and dresses and a wig and lip stick and make up and I just don't understand why he does that when he wants to get married to that vietnamese girl from vietnam who he always talk about. He does not go out in public dressed like a girl but he walks around his neighboorhood in san jose like this. He tries so hard to look like a girl he makes himself look so hideous. What is wrong with him ?? Is he also gay too ?

russian
arabic
urdo
indian
chinese
korean
japanese
vietnamese
spanish
italian
german
etc

I know there're quite many generous native speakers from different cultures here. So plz help this poor girl xD.
Thanks in advance, guys.
I want to know as many as possible.
From vietnam with love.
P/s don't tell me use google trans. Thanks a bunch.

I need to know how you say Oakland Chinatown In Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese, Cambodian, Laotian, Mien, Thai, and Samoan.
Thanks

At the end of the war in 1945, France had no army, no arms, no navy, no ships, and no planes. And Allied Supreme Commander Eisenhower refused to give France a drop of oil or anything else after de Gaulle would not send support for our soldiers during the "Battle of the Bulge".

Yet, somehow, one year later, France had all that stuff and could send an army half way around the world to invade Vietnam, chase Ho Chi Minh and his government into the jungle, and set up a puppet government. Your history books and your newspapers will not tell you where France got all that stuff, but the fact is that there was no possible source other than an executive order by Harry S. Truman!

When a French division was surrounded and captured at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, many of the prisoners were speaking German! SS war criminals had joined the Foreign Legion after WW II!

In his memoir ("Mandate for Change"; 1958), President Eisenhower wrote that over 80% of the Vietnamese supported Ho Chi Minh.
I am surprised and disappointed. You are my fellow Americans. You pledged your allegiance to our nation (under God!) every morning in school, from K to 8. But it meant nothing to you - a complete loss of time.

That nation was created by our Founding Fathers, men who hated colonialism above all else and risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to defeat it.

And you really believe that empires have the right to subjugate foreign populations and suppress uprisings and declarations of independence?

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Go back where you came from!
(1) Those who do not respect History are doomed to suffer through its repetition.
(2) Doubts about factual accuracy are expected, but, ethically speaking, should be specific and fact-based.
(3) The French army and navy were totally destroyed in 1940. Find a good dictionary and look up "war" and "defeat".
(4) Any event prior to the French invasion of 1946 is totally immaterial and irrelevant. It was an unprovoked invasion of one nation by another contrary to the U.N. charter and all the laws of civilization.
(5) Before more doubts are expressed, perhaps you should go to your local library and check out and read "In Retrospect" (1996?) by Robert MacNamara, Secretary of Defense under Lyndon B. Johnson. He wrote the book thirty years after he resigned the office in mid-war because he could no longer look his son in the eye. In the book, he wrote that the entire war from beginning to end was "wrong, terribly wrong".
(1) On Germans in the French Foreign Legion:
The French government depended on volunteers to suppress a foreign population and was having trouble with enlistments. Sound familiar? The Foreign Legion is famous for always being glad to accept anybody without questions about their past.

Besides, I was there, Charlie. I was an interpreter in French and German for the 4th Cavalry Squadron, VII Corps, during WW II. When I heard the prisoners being interviewed on French TV in 1954, they were speaking German.
And that's the troof!

(2) On Community Guidelines:
I asked a perfectly legitimate question about politics and backed it with facts and logic.

Your first point about Japanese occupation during WW II was totally irrelevant to my question.

Your second point about Community Guidelines and "soapbox" came out of right field beyond the foul line. The truth is that you are totally incapable of dealing with principles, facts, and logic.
Truman was President from 1944, following Roosevelt's death, until Eisenhower was inaugurated in 1953. Supplying equipment to de Gaulle was the only involvement he had with Vietnam.

Roosevelt, on the other hand, made sure that Ho Chi Minh got some help and encouragement while his guerilla army was holding down 5 Japanese divisions in French Indo-China. The Michelin rubber plantations were very important to Japan.

Truman repaid that important wartime service by starting a war that killed 3 million Vietnamese and 57,000 Americans. Such gratitude.
Ed Harley
Error No. 1: On March 9, 1945, the Japanese overthrew the French administration and disarmed the French army. After the Japanese surrender, Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam. Before the French fleet invaded on March 9, 1946, there were no French troops in control anywhere in Vietnam.

Error No. 2: The US didn't support the French in Indo-China to get French support against Chinese Communists, who were out of power a thousand miles away, recovering from the war, and hiding from Chiang Kai-shek.
Truman financed the French invasion to roll back the grossly over-rated communist threat to capitalism. Truman was too short-sighted to uderstand the currents of history. Colonialism was finished. In a similar way Bush doesn't understand that the Shi'ites will never give a drop of oil to the Sunnis and the Sunnis will never pay a shekel of tax to a Shi'ite government. A president has to know history, geography, culture, philosophy, and to pick good advisors.
Error No. 3. The French army did as well in Vietnam as the US army, with far less firepower and technology. Again, as in Iraq, there was no understanding of the culture and history of the land. They could not understand the nationalist movement that had motivated the peasants, who were mad as hell and weren't going to take it anymore!

If you had a million Americans in Vietnam you would still be unable to make a 90% Bhuddist population pay taxes to a Catholic elite clique.
The US didn't have to beg the French for support against the USSR. The French needed our help badly to get back on their feet. Surely, you heard of the Marshall Plan.

Me too - There was no other source for the war materials. Britain was exhausted and needed to hold on to India and Africa. Germany and Italy were destroyed. The USSR wouldn't help a capitalist nation defeat a communist nation. And where would France get the money to pay for war materials. Think about it.