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!

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!

Well to be more specific: I'm an Asian American. My parents, are what you call strict and slightly workaholics. I want to take violin lessons. However, since my parents work almost everyday, they have no time to drive me to lessons, much less get a violin.

Also when I speak in my native language: Vietnamese, I stutter. A lot.

I'm wondering how to ask them, if I can play an instrument in Vietnamese. Also: wondering if my parents would be too busy by work to do something I wanted to do, for a long time.

I don't what to do, or what to say,

Hi,

I live in Canada. My native language is Vietnamese. I was brought up to speak english. So my second language would be english. I'm currently learning Japanese and have been for about a year. Now, because I live in Canada, I also want to learn to speak french, is it a good idea to start learning 2 languages that are totally different at the same time?

I currently speak English well- spanish well- indigious native language well- Haitian creole & french & arabic is ok-
Now Vietnamese is a tonal language. different from other languages. but what can I do to learn?

I really find Vietnamese very fascinating and the metroplex where I live has a great Vietnamese ethnic background population.
About me: 20yr hispanic, junior in college, to be a english teacher . Thanks

Western Europeans wrote all their texts in Latin. The Russians used old church Slavonic and Greek. The Indians used Sanskrit. East Asians(Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese) used Classical Chinese, but no one wrote and read in their native language. What was the point in writing in these very artificial languages?

First of all, I am Vietnamese but I never indicated that to Verizon. I never gave them my race or anything like that when signing up. I live alone so it's just me and no one else would have told them anything.

I think what happened is that their computer system somehow scanned my name as Vietnamese and they thought it would be cool to send me correspondence in my own language. Wrong!

I am Americanized and am not fluent in Vietnamese. I speak ENGLISH. I'm not a FOB (fresh off the boat) lol I don't appreciate being sent crap in Vietnamese because I never requested it. I think it's PATRONIZING for a company to assume that I would want correspondence sent in Vietnamese just because I am Vietnamese. And besides, I can barely read it anyways. It's seriously pissing me off.
This is America. Send me stuff in English. Don't assume that just because I have an Asian name that I would like correspondence sent to me in my native language. I DON'T! I only like to read in English. Got it?

I already canceled service with them awhile ago and when I asked the rep about this she claimed she had "no idea" why I was being sent this stuff and that someone must have requested it (even though I live alone and I certainly never requested it). I still get annoyed thinking about it though. I don't like being patronized. I don't like people assuming things about me and assuming that just because I'm Vietnamese that want literature sent to me in Vietnamese. Their marketing ploy backfired.

Like, think if Vietnamese was your first language, and since English is mostly used you wouldn't wanna learn it because your native language is easier, but you still have to. So you glad that English was your first language?

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.

My Daughter & Son-in-law are adopting a Beautiful baby boy from Vietnam and want to teach him his native language I am looking for a good interactive for the family to learn the language. I could use all the help I can get.