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.

Hi guys. I've decided to commit myself to learning Vietnamese from scratch with no background at all (it's part of my ethnicity and as a long term goal, I want to be able to be proficiently fluent in it in both writing and speaking).

So I was wondering if there was a good place to start. I've already ordered a highly recommended grammar book that is being shipped this very moment but I want to look into a resource that'll help with my speaking since there's no way I'm going to make heads or tails of what the accent markings will sound like if I just read the grammar book.

I've heard good things from Pimsleur's language courses. The only problem I have is that it is completely audio, isn't it? Sure I can repeat whatever they tell me to say but how am I supposed to relate that to what's written? It's not like I'll be able to figure out that a certain sound will correspond to a certain accented letter without actually having a script to follow a long.

Maybe my understanding of how Pimsleur isn't quite right.. But anyway, any advice for resources to learn Vietnamese both spoken and written? It'd be nice to find something that can match audio to something written. Not sure if Pimsleur does that or not .. Any comments would be appreciated!

ni hao, before you rant how different Vietnamese and Chinese are different; they are tonal languages and Vietnamese borrows heavily from Chinese. Vietnamese and Chinese share similar culture.

I am learning Chinese but on and off-time I am learning Vietnamese for pleasure.
Norwegian and Swedish are European languages not Asian--you moron!

Ok should I make flash cards be because I have this DVD of learning Vietnamese and Portuguese and Italian so also which one should I learn first??

Are there any Vietnamese class/courses that teach me how to speak Vietnamese in OC, CA? Is learning Vietnamese is one of harder language to learn from?

why learning Vietnamese is so important to kids that born here?

Hello,

I'm a native English speaker and am interested in learning Vietnamese. Is there a good school or program in Vietnam where I can learn Vietnamese?

I am a complete beginner and have no background in the language.

I am looking for a software program for learning Vietnamese. Does anyone know of one out there that actually teaches the correct dialect (south vs north vietnam)? Thanks in advance.

I know that learning any language is a challenge but how difficult is learning Vietnamese then say Chinese?