im viet and i love the lanuage of those countries. do you think it will take me long to learn them. i heard chinese controlled vietnam for 1000 years so will the lanuage be similar to china or at least will i be able to pronounce it well??

Alright. My mom is being completely unreasonable. She's paying 120 dollars a year for a Vietnamese class at my church that i don't want. I could use the money she's wasting for the art classes I've always wanted.
The teachers can't teach anything that'll stick with me for the rest of my life. At best, they give you a couple of words you have to memorize for that week. How is that going to teach me how to speak, write, and read Vietnamese any better?
I already know how to speak a bit, even though i'm only half Vietnamese. I'll be able to hold a conversation, understand what's being said, and such but what i really lack is being able to read and write Viet. Not to mention i'm not as fluent in my speaking as i want to be.
So, my question is, how can i speak, write, and read Vietnamese? Are there lessons online? Some tricks so i can pick more up?

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)

Ok someone asked this yesterday , but the answers didn't quite answer good enough
the person asked how can she get into a group LIKE that , but not speak korean, becuz shes vietnamese , like are there any other auditions like the SM global ones, but speaking viet or english or chinese? :OOO? Id like to audition......^w^

Correct me if I am wrong because I am partially viet,But isnt it Cao be?

I know its silly but you kind of forget things when you dont speak it over the years,I used google translate but I know that google translate sucks.

I looked it up on Wikipedia, and after some further research, I found that it is absolutely true that almost all Vietnamese surnames are Chinese in origin. My last name is Lê, which is the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character, 黎, or Lí in pinyin. In fact, my whole name is Sino-Vietnamese. There isn't a single native Viet word in my name. The surname Nguyễn is 阮（Ruǎn), and Trần is 陈(Chén). Why is this? I know that most Viets take their surnames from royal dynasties, why did they do that? And why did Vietnamese kings take Chinese last names?
If you don't believe me or want to know more, here's a site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_names
adiavoy, your last name is, I'm assuming, Đào. It would be 陶(Táo) in Chinese.

weird right? im viet but i suck at listening to vietnamese.
yeuphim,thoigiophim.phim2go i know is vietnamese
but there is no site with sub and dub. i dont think any site
is like that b/c it seems weird but i really need listening skills
i can speak and write and read like a god but hearing sucks
b/c im adopted and do not get to hear vietnamese.

any help would be nice.

I am 12 years old and I think I have a pretty good shot at becoming a model in Vietnam, I travel between Vietnam and texas quite often, I am 58 inches tall,My waist is 24 in. my hips are 27 in. I stay in Nha Trang Most of the time, I have brown hair and eyes... I weigh 70 lbs. my hair is to my chest.

I speak english and vietnamese i can read in viet and read n write in english.

I don't know if i'm qualified for it or not... do i need to grow, lose weight gain weight...or what?

in a 1- 10 scale what are my chances?
It won't interfere with my education, i plan to go to college and be a game developer for jagex.

How do you say I love you in Vietnamese when your gay? Anh Yeu Em is a guy saying to a girl and Em Yeu Anh is from a woman to a guy. If your a guy wanted to say it to a guy would it be Anh Yeu Anh rat nhieu trong suot doi. I'm Viet. I can speak it well but I wanted to ask because their isn't any consideration of gay or lesbian in the language itself.

My wife is Vietnamese and she speaks Viet fluently. I am in the Army and if I learn Vietnamese I can take a proficiency test and make anywhere between -0 extra every month. And i only have to take the test once a year. I dont even have to USE the language ever. Just test on it is all. I get Rosetta Stone free from the Army and its helping a lot, but Im trying to find like a class or something I can take. No schools offer Vietnamese. Does anyone have any ideas?
By the way, I live in Denver CO.... I guess thats pretty important lol.
Im also interested in a Study Abroad... Maybe. Depending on price and length. But thats for later on!
I went to the VPS website and found the downloads link but cant find where to actually download it at.

I don't look Vietnamese at all but whenever I go to a Viet market or festival they speak to me in Vietnamese. I ask why. They say it's because I look like the mixed white-Asians. Firstly, are there so many over there and did many immigrate to Western countries. Secondly, do they think I'm old (mid-30s)? I assume the mixed races would be products from Vietnam. I'm in my late 20s.
It's a huge market, like a Wal-mart. All races shop there.

How do you say " when are you going to send a picture?" in Viet? It's to a female from a male.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks
thanks burnt but i'm looking for a human translation

I want to learn how to say nice things to my girfriend. I'm Viet too but don't speak it lol..
Thx Maureen!

Okay, so I'm vietnamese/white. I go to a basically an all white school. My best friend is full viet and so yeah. This guy told us we were ugly Koreans and then left. My best friend ignored it, but I thought it was racist. Then another guy called me coco puffs and then another girl called me wheat bread and then they just basically made fun of me. They said my eyes are too squinty and that my voice sounded really annoying and they yelled at me when I would talk to my best friend in vietnamese. why do people do this! This didn't happen in elemetary, and this is middle school, but why are people mean to viets and koreans! help

I already know canto but I was thinking of learning Viet. But first I need to know if it is harder to learn? Which is harder to learn, Viet or Cantonese?

I'm Vietnamese, but I don't really know how to write in Vietnamese,
so if I wanted to write "we love you" in a children to dad sense, what is its Viet translation?
PLEASE NO VIET TRANSLATION WEBSITES BECAUSE IT CAN BE MISLEADING!

-Thank you!

I'm afrraid that she wont like because Im white. Im secretly learning to speak viet, in hopes to impress her. I heard her speak it one day when i follwed her around. I think she likes this other viet kid but im not sure. What should I do...

I was born here in Aus, have always lived here and never gone to Viet but my parents were born there and came her 20yrs ago and are now 50

However,
I always speak Vietnamese at home because my parents cant speak english

and i follow some traditions such as covering body up and wearing earings and my brothers are better than me

What do you think?
Thanks oh and I m 14
Just say opinion please. Say either Aussie or Vietnamese.
Jonathon D please do not make such horrible comments about me.

By the way thanks to all the other people who are answering nicely.

Like, okay
this is in Aus.

My friends at school are viet, and im a chink.

I always feel really left out because they tend to talk with their own language, and i just stand their while they talk to their other vietnamese friend. And sometimes in class i try to talk to them and they are so in a conversation they cant hear me.

And i've realised that when they are only around other vietnamese people they are open and they laugh and everything. And its not just them.

Or is it just me? I dont want to be racist or offend anyone.

like a place 2 download coz my parent think i need a learn more viet and shiett im 13 soo yeaa

english to vietnamese or vietnamese to english

either one will work

ohh yeahh dont say nottin bout my writtin i do know how to write properlty i just dont wanna

my viet friend thinks its funny to talk to me in vietnamese
i have no idea what he is on about
help me please
Đã không còn người yêu hỡi,
ngày xưa ấy đôi ta bên nhau không rời
Đời giông bão nhiều đắng cay, cuốn trôi mau biết đâu tình nồng !!!

can anyone tell me what this means

I said I miss you a lot to a boy in vietnamese, and he replied Um what now du dai giep?
What does this mean? I only speak a little viet and i dont understand.

IF you put in "will justin beiber ever hit puberty" in English translater to Vietnamese, and copy the VIetnamese translation, and translate it right back to english

it will say "justin bieber will never hit puberty" lol amazing how it answers

But my real question, did u ever hear of vietnamese language/people untill that joke?
lol I am viet just asking if others new about us, until the bieber joke came out
they are not a nation of mute, but a nation of violence, and corrupted, its better than mexico, cuz the govenrment officials have their own way of getting money, and treating criminals.

Vietnamese officers, are basically already bribed by the governemtn, so no other gangs can bribe them, thus creating the ultimate police force, with brutality.

ok..i know this is vietnamese counting number too, but this is sino-viet
1. nhat
2.nhi
3.tam
4.tu
5.ngu
6.luc
7.that
8.bat
9.kuu
10.thap
is sino-viet onli vocabulary word?
i dont know, dat y i ask u guys?

I don't look Vietnamese at all but whenever I go to a Viet market or festival they speak to me in Vietnamese. I ask why. They say it's because I look like the mixed white-Asians. Firstly, are there so many over there and did many immigrate to Western countries. Secondly, do they think I'm old (mid-30s)? I assume the mixed races would be products from Vietnam. I'm in my late 20s.
@thisisme White
I never met them.LOL I really don't care and it won't change my identity anyway unless I find out I'm adopted. That would be a shocker but I'm not.

Really just curious if they are a lot of mixed people in Vietnam since that's what I'm mistaken for and also if I look older because aren't the mixed-Viets 35+. Do they really think I'm that old.

vdict.com is website for online translation Vietnamese to English, and English to Vietnamese. It goes well English to vietnamese but when I chose Vietnamese to English, in the left box. I get strange translation and the box automatically come back to English to Vietnamese, as by default.

THIS IS THE TEXT I FEED :
NEN EM PHAI HOC HOI NHIEU VA NEN SUY NGHI TRUOC KHI VIET HAY NOI MOT VIEC GI

THIS IS THE TRANSLATION I GOT :
Younger sister NEN Fades Adenoid vegetation HOC HOI NHIEU NEN Decline Doubt TRUOC When VIET Or Follow VIEC GI Mot

Please help

I just saw her on Paris by Night singing "Ice Queen" and looked her up and the internet says she can sing English and Vietnamese, but most of her songs are in English and she didn't say anything in Vietnamese on Paris by Night so I was wondering if she even spoke Viet.

I also observed her singing and she wasn't really all that great as people make her out to be. Her voice sounds like a little kid and the lyrics to "Ice Queen" was really repetitive than most songs and it wasn't catchy as people make her songs out to be. Have people really overstated her "talents" or was "Ice Queen" just a really bad song?

Not to bash on her or anything, I'm simply stating my opinion and I'm wondering if anybody can agree with me or think I'm judging too soon based on just one unimpressive performance?

Amongst each other in front of customers? A few friends and myself went to a nail salon to have our nails done and a bunch of commies starting speaking Viet around us.

Amongst each other in front of customers? A few friends and myself went to a nail salon to have our nails done and a bunch of commies starting speaking Viet around us.

I speak vietnamese and my bf is interested in learning to get closer to my family but every place weve looked at only has english - viet dictionaries that more translate than teach. Does anyone know a good book or place to look for one that is more explanatory?

Hi.. I was wondering what the word "lou" meant. (not sure of spelling ... just sounded like loo or lou)
It is apparently an offensive word (the person who was told they were lou was very pissed off), but i'm not quite sure in what context. i'm pretty fluent in viet but i don't understand this word..
going through some stuff right now and i'd appreciate the help
thanks

I can speak and understand Vietnamese fluently but I did not understand a word that they scream out during battle. Are they really speaking Viet? I'm sure a games company with a large budget should be able to get some REAL vietnamese speech in the game instead of random gibberish that SOUNDS a little Vietnamese. Could else anyone understand it?

I'm Vietnamese, but I live in the United States all my life so I can barely speak Vietnamese. My grandparents are coming to visit and they always speak to me in Viet, and so I usually just nod my head awkwardly.

I figured I might as well learn to speak it better, so are there any websites or dictionary programs that not only translates from Vietnamese to English, but has a sound byte of how to say the Vietnamese word? Thanks.

Okay so...My parents taught me Viet while I was young so I can only speak. They never taught me how to write or type it. How do you type I love you very much in Viet? Em Yeu Anh nue lam? Tell me if I'm wrong lol.

I have this viet guy friend who keeps saying things in viet to me and won't tell me what they mean. :/ Can someone who's actually viet tell me? I've used translators but never get anything that makes sense.

I think it was...
Alyson thich an cho or Alyson thich anh cho.

Something like that. But I'm not sure it was spelled like this. Just something close to that. If it doesn't make sense, tell me what you think he meant or something because no translators work and I don't get it.