Learn to Speak Vietnamese?
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at
1:53 pm
I work with a lot of Vietnamese people who don't have a lot of English-speaking ability. I'd like to break the language barrier by learning how to speak a little bit of their language. Anyone know a good site or a decent program that can be recommended based on personal experience?
My native language is English.
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rosettastone
the fastest way to learn a new language,gaurenteed!
ahahah
i think it like 100 and sumthing dollars for one lesson
and about 500 for all of the lessons.
but i think its really worth it=]
You’d have a better chance of learning Vietnamese if you learned either Chinese and / or French first. Most of the Vietnamese vocabulary is pronounced like it is in Chinese, most of the time with alternate pronunciations, mostly from Cantonese, but the current written language is based loosely on French. Knowing English will not help in learning Vietnamese at all. French doesn’t really help either, but learning French pronunciation, might help a little with Vietnamese pronunciation.
Here are some words I know in Vietnamese, but I can’t input the Vietnamese accents. Vietnam is an American made word, the country’s name is based on the Chinese name for it, which is two syllables, therefore in Vietnamese, it’s actually two words: Viet Nam, again, I can’t input Vietnamese accents. Sorry.
mot = one
hai = two
ba = three
bon = four
nam = five
sau = six
bay = seven
tam = eight
chin = nine
muoi = ten
tram = hundred
ngan = thousand
The number combination is the same as Chinese, but the word for ten thousand in Chinese is a new vocabulary word, but the Vietnamese word for ten thousand is the same order as in English, "muoi ngan".
banh mi = bread
pho = traditional Vietnamese rice noodle with beef, etc…
thanh pho [sometimes abbreviated as "T.P."] = city