I wanna get to know a guy who is Vietnamese and I have a crush on him. I talked to him for a few minutes which is good and found out a few things. I want to talk with him more,but how can I talk to him in english if he dosen't speak much of it? He has an esl class,but I don't know any Vietnamese and i tryed looking for online free translations,but never found any. He knows how to say a few words in english which is good and Please help me out thanks

Hi everyone,
I'm going with my friend to Vietnam for 9 days for tour. the tour is planned by a tour company and there will be a guide with us because not everyone speak English there.

Is there any advice from people who went there already and is there anything to careful from!!!

Tell me the def and how to write them.
How to greet or something like that.

Okay, in the movie Platoon, there's a part where the American soldiers ransack this village and they're shouting stuff that I guess is in Vietnamese at these poor villagers... I am wondering what it is they're saying. If you've seen the movie then you'll know what I'm talking about.

One part is where there's some people hiding in this sort of hole thing underground and the soldiers are saying, "La dai" or like "La dai moi" (it sounds like "la die mao") at them to get them to come out. And then there's another part where Barnes is trying to get this one older guy to talk and he gets the guy's daughter and acts like he's going to shoot her and says something like, "I cacadou! I cacadou vee cee!" What the heck does that mean?? I spelled it that way because somebody else wrote it like that on a blog or something so it might be misspelled.

I tried to find the clip on Youtube but it's split into two different clips, and they might take awhile to load so I don't know if anybody wants to take the time but just in case, here they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNM0Ma-SNY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFmL8oOKl5I&feature=related

WARNING... this is a really disturbing part of the movie so keep that in mind if you decide to watch it.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
You mean to tell me there's NOBODY HERE WHO WAS IN VIETNAM??? Come on, somebody's got to know.

I'm Vietnamese i know to speak a little mandarin/cantonese and i was wondering what is a best way to get a chinese girlfriend? Or Vietnamese Girlfriend? Should i go to a chinatown and talk to girls?

um..hi im an eighth-grade and i am originally from Vietnam so i have this stupid vietnamese accent! and i hate it so much....i couldnt really speak clearly because of it..Does anybody knows how i can get rid of it ????and im always scared to ask questions because of my accent T^T

In April this year I'm traveling over to Vietnam to see my Dad who works there, I'm 15 by the way if that helps. Was just wondering about things i should know about going over there, do they speak much English over there? (I'm Australian) and what are some things you recommend doing over there, apart from shopping of course! I'll be on my own a lot as my Dad will be working most in the days and its only me going to visit him. So any tips and help would be much appreciated, also any tips on some basic language I should learn would be helpful
Thanks xxx.
if it helps in staying in Ho Chi Minh city

I misphrased the question earlier. I recently learned to sing VIETNAMESE and I need to add some great if not good songs.

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 ?

I want to write the content in my blog in Vietnamese, but Yahoo doesn't support font Vietnamese. What can I do?

Do you feel that the US government has done enough to help the veterans and their families who are suffering from this?
My cousin who is 62 now, served in Nam and is, as we speak, on life support. His lungs and liver are eat up with cancer. The doctors say it is from the effects of Agent Orange. I am just trying to come to terms with this and want to know what others feel about this. Thanks.

So I met my boyfriend online, we've been dating almost a year, and we talk on the phone or webcam almost every day. He moved here with his family from Vietnam when he was 7. His parents are in their 60's, and they can barely speak any English. They did NOT want him dating a girl outside his race, and when they found out he was dating a white girl, they gave him so much hell about it that we had to break up. They kept telling him that I was just using him, I was going to boss him around, I only wanted him for his money, etc. :/
We got back together 11 months ago, and we really love each other...his family has started to accept me, and they want to meet me. I'm so nervous though. My boyfriend says that they will accept me one day as long as I adjust to their culture, and I'm willing to do anything to be with him, I've already started learning Vietnamese...but...someone please help me on how I should act...tell me a bit more about their culture, etc.

this vietnamese lady gave me this medicine for my acne but the directions are in vietnamese. it says: Rua sach cho da bi benh, boi thuoc ngay 1-2 lan cho toi khi khoi han. Co the dung dai ngay (1-2 thang) de phong benh trung ca tai phat.

what does this mean?

I know there are different ways to say different words in vietnamese, but i want to know is there a more common way of speaking?
Like in Chinese, it's not really Chinese.. the most common is Mandarin.
if there is a more common way in Vietnamese, Please tell me because i'd really like the learn the most common form of it. ^_^

P.S.
I don't need anyone to tell me it's too hard.. I've already learn some words and can say them without hesitation including an accent.

I'm learning Portuguese and I'm pretty far with that already. I'm intermediate level.
I recently took up German in order to ready myself for when I take it in school next year.
Me and my friend have a competition for who learns Vietnamese fastest.
And I was think about starting to study French as I get bored when I can't find anyone to talk to in the other languages.

Is this too hard to do, or is it possible?
Thanks.

This sets Vietnam apart from all other Asian countries. And lots of Vietnamese are of Chinese heritage. I wonder how much trouble they had with the language upon immigration.

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 ?

Is french taught to children in Vietnamese schools or must people learn the language on their own? I know a young (mid-twenties) woman who came to Canada recently from Vietnam as a teacher and she speaks completely fluent french, as if she grew up with it. I heard french was dying in Vietnam. Is that true or do all kids learn it?

I know how to spell and write it, but I'm unsure on how to say it. Thanks everyone who helps!

P.S. Just making sure I have it right, "Chúc mừng sinh nhật" is what I found. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Hi ,I'm a 20 yr old Latina girl that loves Asian guys ,but recently I have a crush on this 19 yr old Vietnamese guy from work ,he has only a few months living here in U.S. And his English isn't that good, but he try's his best to talk to me, I don't know if he likes me or is just being really nice to me ,he asked for my number and texts me often and is always smiling at me when he sees me ,but I'm not sure if he likes me :/
Can anybody give me any tips on how to know? Thanks

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 ?

I guess the alphabet makes it easier, because you don't have to learn the characters like in Chinese but it has got more tones... I also noticed that a lot of words are similar to the Chinese ones. (Not that I know that much Chinese it's just I thing I've noticed.) So overall is it hard?

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 ?

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.

Do you feel that the US government has done enough to help the veterans and their families who are suffering from this?
My cousin who is 62 now, served in Nam and is, as we speak, on life support. His lungs and liver are eat up with cancer. The doctors say it is from the effects of Agent Orange. I am just trying to come to terms with this and want to know what others feel about this. Thanks.

Can you translate the following into Vietnamese please, I'm writing a surprise letter to my vietnamese boyfriend.

Darling,
I am writing the beginning of this letter in Vietnamese to surprise you. I hope you can understand it. I am having a good time but I'm missing you very much.

陳衛興
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.