my parents were born in Vietnam and was raised in Vietnam and then moved to Canada and my mom was adopted in Vietnam but they both speak Cantonese does that make me Chinese or Vietnamese

I'm Vietnamese and of course my parents run nail shops. A lot of people I ask think they talk about you in our language, however that's not really true. Does this offend you? People have to also understand that most of the people that work in the salons, (if not all) came from Vietnam so their English is not that good, which is why they are usually quiet when they do your nails and talk to each other to make way with the boredom/awkwardness.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

Hi! My boyfriend and his family is from Vietnam, I am going to be meeting his parents in December and I want to be able to have a little conversation with them since his mom does not speak English and his dad is not very fluent. My boyfriend gave me some CD's and a book which are helpful but I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for software, books, etc. that will help me. I am having a little trouble pronouncing and with the marks over and under the letters... :S. Thank you in advance.

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,

Vietnamese is a pretty big language so I'd say I know about a little more than a quarter.
I'm Vietnamese but I was born in America so my community surroundings are completely American. I want to know how can I learn more Vietnamese? I'm starting to fade away from that language from being with my friends too much...
I want a good job and college when I grow up and I heard that bi-language people can get the better jobs,schools,ect.
I ask my parents what certain stuff means, but I always forget in the future.I do NOT want a private tutor. Is there any place to get language books or something? Haha thanks.
Thanks(again)!! Ill be helping choosing the BEST ANSWER.(:

i'm hispanic and vietnamese but i dont speak either is that weird. I had a person say i was weird because i took spanish at school when i'm already hispanic and dont know it . and this girl that is vietnamese said "forget you", because she was happy when i said i was vietnamese, but then she got mad when i said i didnt speak it. i guess its because i didnt tell her i was also hispanic.
i think the reason i dont speak it is because my parents divorced at my age of 4 and my mom thought it was too much to teach me any language but english

Hi! I am Vietnamese, born in the US. I have a tutor growing up and can read very little and speak the language with a horrible accent. (But, I try...) So, growing up, my parents went back to Vietnam and discouraged us children from going. I have always had a desire to visit when I finish graduate school, but my parents, particularly my mother has said some horrible things about Vietnam:
1. It's dirty. So, I looked up an article and read an article about people defecating on the side of the roads! She said the sanitation is horrible.
2. Crime. She said if I were to ever visit, I may be a victim or the frequent rape, burglary, etc.
3. She said that the living conditions are intolerable and that I would not enjoy my stay.
4. She always talks about the supernatural and superstitions in Vietnam. It's very creepy, yet annoying because I would not enjoy it if the majority's mentality was this way.
5. Dress. She said some people dress very inappropriate, even go topless or revealing their private areas, which I feel is inappropriate.
6. She said that I would not like the customs of the Vietnamese people and that they have poor manners, and will burp, fart etc in public areas.
Are these things neccessarily true? I surely hope not. I want to visit my extended family and grandparents (I have not seen them in over 12 years.) Any input is greatly appreciated.

Since I was born in Canada, I'm not entirely fluent in Vietnamese like my parents but I know enough to hold a basic conversation.

Would it be tricky to learn Vietnamese and Korean at the same time? I figured since I'm a beginner in Korean and already know Vietnamese, I won't get mixed up easily

My parents and I often have communication error. I speak a lot of English while he speaks mainly Vietnamese and I might as well ask here than ask him for the time being. My dad says he only has the 2008 W-2 at the moment. Should he have anything else that I should be using? He didn't file the 2008 W-2 yet, if that helps. I need help at this, I am extremely newb at this, provide me with lots of information please!

What would you like to be spoken in your home, as in, once you have a family if you don't already...

and if you do, what do you speak at home, apart from English?

I am from a mixed background, my parents and siblings altogether speak Russian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and English is what I mostly use with them although it is none of our first languages.

I am fascinated with languages and I'd like, if I ever have children, for them to definitely speak Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and English. Also, this one's a bit "out there" but I would also love to learn Silbo Gomero, a whistled language of the Canary Islands...
I think French is beautiful, but gotta put a limit somewhere, so I'll say French is *optional* lol

I hate these DVD videos that is produced by this vietnamese entertainment company named Asia Entertainment because all they ever talk about is the vietnam war. All of the songs in the video always talks about a vietnam war soldier who had harships through the war and I don't like listening to it. I'm a 2nd generation vietnamese and I don't care about the vietnam war or communism because the war has been over for 35 years. I just want to live life. I'm also planning to go to vietnam. Vietnam is a great place because it has beautiful girls and a cool place, I don't see why people are still bitter over losing the war. The war has been over for 35 years and people are still bitter over stupid stuff by producing crappy music videos about the vietnam war. I'm 20 years old and I hate this production company's dvds and my parents still buys it. I can't move out because my parents are still legally my parents and if i move out I would lose financial aid for college. I want to live in vietnam because it has beautiful vietnamese girls, you can get a girlfriend in vietnam in like 5 minutes.

I am a 16 year old Vietnamese-American, born in the U.S. (parents both born in Vietnam). My question what would the best way for me to learn to read, write, and speak the language. I know enough to speak about basic subjects (at home/shopping) but not adequate enough. Any books/ courses recommended? Audio preferred?

My family is froum southern china (guangzhou), so I'm shorter, darker (darker than my mum and dad sometimes) and have larger eyes. I'm missing the height and the skin tone! Damn, if only my parents from the middle of china JOKES

Well, my question is...what are the actual physical features of filipino or vietnamese people?

(Vietmanese girls at school would speak to me in vietnamese, not realising im not viet. My filipino friend's brother thought i was filo :l I didn't know whether to be flattered or offended, because my filo friend's family had a light complexion LAWL)

I was born vietnamese and i speak it very well. But as i got older i only used it at home and around vietnamese relatives. I don't know the complicated words. Now, I am more fluent in English than in vietnamese. But i have a vietnamese tongue.

Should I learn:
French
or
Japanese?
I am in 8th grade and will take it until 11th grade.
Please explain why. Do you have any experience?
My sister's friend is japanese. None of my friends speak french. My parents know a little french.

would like to improve my vietnamese, cause my parents say I suck at speaking it, and its really bothering me. haha

I'm signing up for this thing. They want to see my birth certificate, but it's in another language. I was born in vietnam so my birth certificate is in Vietnamese. Should I bring it with me tomorrow to sign up ? Or should o bring my green card ? That's what my parents says ?

I have this friend named Steve and he always insults me simon cowell style whenever I talk about my upcoming marriage to this vietnamese girl. Everytime when I say I'm excited to go meet this vietnamese girl in vietnam who my aunt is introducing me to, he says you should be excited about your upcoming divorce. He says your a big sissy who can't get a girl so you get your momma to get you a girl, no girl wants to be with a guy like that. He also says you will cry so much when she leaves you that you will drown and sink like a ship. I told him that this is normal in the vietnamese culture and most girls from vietnam are faithful and they stay married with you no matter what income you make, low or high. I told him that vietnamese girls in vietnam are taught by their parents to get married once only. He says you're better off becoming a prostitute or a hooker because they make good money and all you want from this vietnamese girl is sex and nothing else. This is true and I'm wondering why he insults me like this ?? I know he is copying simon cowell's style of insults.

I have this friend named Steve and he always insults me simon cowell style whenever I talk about my upcoming marriage to this vietnamese girl. Everytime when I say I'm excited to go meet this vietnamese girl in vietnam who my aunt is introducing me to, he says you should be excited about your upcoming divorce. He says your a big sissy who can't get a girl so you get your momma to get you a girl, no girl wants to be with a guy like that. He also says you will cry so much when she leaves you that you will drown and sink like a ship. I told him that this is normal in the vietnamese culture and most girls from vietnam are faithful and they stay married with you no matter what income you make, low or high. I told him that vietnamese girls in vietnam are taught by their parents to get married once only. He says you're better off becoming a prostitute or a hooker because they make good money and all you want from this vietnamese girl is sex and nothing else. This is true and I'm wondering why he insults me like this ?? I know he is copying simon cowell's style of insults.

A better question would be why do Vietnamese youth want to be Korean and are ashamed of their roots? My cousin is exactly like this. Is it media influence? Do their parents raise them to hate the Vietnamese (the Vietnamese youth I speak of are usually U.S. citizens)? I ask because many Vietnamese people despise their government, and as a result, they despise their own people.
Many Koreans don't even like the Vietnamese because they view them as an inferior nation, let alone race of people.

I'm 23, she's 24 or 25 or 26 I think (they calculate their age differently for some reason)
I've been in Vietnam for two weeks and will be here for another 11 months to be an English teacher.
I know the basics of the culture already, body language, etiquette, etc.
Wasn't looking for a girl to date, I'm not one of those Americans who goes to other countries to get girls, but she was very persistent at asking me out after she was my student in my teacher training course.
She drives a motorbike, I don't, so she's going to pick me up, which is already a little weird, and we planned for dinner.
Could be a bit of a language barrier, she's decent at English but just doesn't know a lot of words, and I only know the basics of speaking Vietnamese.
I'd prefer a relationship to an American-style hook-up, but I have no idea what she's looking for, and so far I know very little about her, so just wanted to hear from some other people who maybe have been in a similar situation, what is a typical first date like? Do I kiss her at the end? If she's forward enough to ask me out, might she be expecting more? Or, do I meet her parents?

The whole thing is kinda confusing, but she is pretty cute so I'm willing to give it a shot. =)

Thanks for the advice!

My teacher require to me write a text long about 250 ->300 word by english, to talk about my parents's word and affair their do everyday . can you help me ? my father is a farmer and he keep chickens to provide you with eggs . my mother is a housewifery .

My teacher require to me write a text long about 80 word by english, to talk about my parents's word and affair their do everyday . can you help me ?

I'm a high school sophomore. I can speak Vietnamese, English, Chinese and a little Spanish. I'm gonna learn some new languages soon. I like travel a lot. I want to go everywhere all around the world, learn their cultures, see the heritages.... But I don't know what job is the best for me? My parents want me to be a dentist to have more money and then travel. I have no idea.

Im 100% Vietnamese,my parents are Vietnamese.When I was younger like when I was 3-7 years old,I spoke mostly Vietnamese.Then when I started going to school and everything, I started to speak less and less.Now,I barely speak it.Im 13,going on 14 in November.So how do I "relearn" how to speak it?My parents usually make me speak it at home,but I struggle with it.So does anyone have any tips/advice for me?
Oh,and my parents even put on Vietnamese music like all the time in the car.Like Nhu Nguyen and stuff like that.(It used to be my favorite when I was 3.haha.)But I usually listen to Rock now.And when I asked them if there were any Vietnamese rock bands,like hardcore,they said no.I asked them,becuz it would be soooo kewl to listen to my favorite type of music and learn Vietnamese too.So if anyone know any,please tell me?Oh,and I can read a little bit of Vietnamese,but not that much.My parents never taught me how,but I guess its just instinct or something?I dont know....Well,yea.haha Anyways,thanx. :]

In school, people are always like "Omg, she's attacking me with her calculator!"
"You chink, open your eyes."
"Shut up you fob."
"What are you doing in summer school, you're Asian!"
These kinds of people really p!sses me off.
I mean, Asians have feelings too, don't you think?
Many people, especially Hispanics, call me and other Asians fobs, but I barely speak Vietnamese to my parents.

I greeted my friends parents and they started to speak vietnamese to me but i said i dont speak vietnamese and im chinese and they looked disapointed...

sometimes i always feel like her parents dont like me because im chinese and all her other friends are vietnamese and her parents adore her...i feel weird and left out :/

I'm writing a card to my boyfriend's parents, but the problem is they don't speak English. (Well much anyway) it'd be nice if I knew how to say it in their language. I can't really afford to make mistakes, and I don't trust Google Translator that much.
Can anyone help me?
Also, if anyone can add a little more and tell me how to write "I hope you have a great time" or something along those lines, I'd be very grateful. Thank you xx

Ohkay so, both of my parents were born in Vietnam but my mom was suppose to be born in China but her family had to move to Vietnam because of the war or something and my dad was just... naturally born in Vietnam. Both my parents grew up in Vietnam, but both of them can speak fluent Vietnamese AND Chinese. My last name is Chinese though.
I was born in Canada.