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Yes you can!

@@topotondo828 it is used more often in negative situations.

@@pos1546 ha ha yes I remember the first time I heard “Whassup” I was so baffled. And then they told me I don’t have to answer to that question- baffled again!

@@Drifterteetea I got mine off Amazon

Same here . Great comment btw

I have to agree 💯! I myself am in the same boat! Sometimes I feel bad about it. Due to the fact, my Wife is Vietnamese and I travel often to Vietnan too.

You can find movies in Northern Dialect, Central Dialect and Southern Dialect. If you listen 👂 carefully she's talking about bias of accent. The Saigon woman believes her Saigon accent is superior and should be standard over Hanoi accent and Mekong Delta accent. I believe each accent is standard to its region. But neither accent is superior to the other accent.

Films made by the overseas Vietnamese community made up of mainly refugees from South Vietnam are typically in a 'Southern accent', not a 'Northern accent' as you say. You're very much wrong to assume that Vietnamese films have to be in a 'Northern accent'. There are films made by people both inside and outside of Communist Vietnam which have their characters speaking in a 'Northern accent'. It's like films in English, where some are indeed in a southern accent (more specifically, the one spoken around Oxford-Cambridge-London), which we consider standard, but others are also in a Geordie or Cardiff accent for example. She isn't saying that the Hanoi dialect isn't considered standard in Communist Vietnam; she's saying that no variety of Vietnamese is inherently more 'correct' or 'better' than another.

@@miyuqiii Who are you talking to? There are both Northern and Southern Vietnamese living in the U.S. No one here said, Movies have to be in Northern Dialect. I watch movies and dramas in Southern Dialect. I have a Vietnamese wife who speaks Southern Dialect, and her Family speaks what is considered Mekong accent. I have spoken to many who lives in Saigon who speak the Saigon accent. Did you even watch the video? It's talking about Accents from different cities and how some have a bias to other city accents. Not Dialect which involves differences in Vocabulary and Pronunciation.

The Northern (or Hanoi specifically) accent is considered "standard" as Hanoi is the capital. So you'll find a lot of materials featuring Hanoi accent. But there are more and more materials featuring the Southern accent (we are one of them!). Watch this video to learn more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGXn56lfsSWnqssi=zKoWQDQ1Q09L9YBc

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People within Communist Vietnam and the international community consider the Hanoi dialect as standard, so yes. The Saigon accent, however, is actually widely considered the standard within the overseas Vietnamese community largely made up of refugees from South Vietnam. The main point of the video, however, isn't to identify which variety of Vietnamese is regarded as standard but rather to point out that no variety is inherently more 'standard' than another; it's solely based on political, societal and personal biases.

@@miyuqiii Do you always speak without common sense? That is fully asinine what you are saying! The Hanoi accent is only standard to Hanoi. Stop confusing Accent with Dialect!

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@@LearnVietnameseWithAnnieối zoi ôi 😬

A mistake you only make one time… 😂

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The "r" is pronounced as /z/ like "d" and "gi", and the "tr" is pronounced identically to "ch".

Maybe they were thinking of other accents of Nghệ An province. The true Vinh accent sounds extremely clear to me!

That was my experience with my first teacher, who was from Vinh

Think of the work involved -- you'll have to reprint ALL the books and teach everyone (millions of people!) the new writing system. It's simply not worth it. The modern English alphabet is also 400 years old and doesn't correspond exactly with how people speak (for example, "b" in "debt" is silent) - imagine yourself suddenly become illiterate and have to go back to school to learn how to read and write the new writing system!

@LearnVietnameseWithAnnie In terms of languages using the roman alphabet as their spelling system, English is one of the most complicated one, even more than French. The historical development of the spelling system that English uses is not something one can compare with the Vietnamese system. It's more than thousand years old and has a tendency to retain the old spelling in which we can mostly find the etymology of each word. Like the word 'debt', which comes from Latin and lost its b pronunciation because it went through French before entering the English lexicon. For example the k in 'knife' used to be pronounced in earlier English, which is originally from Old Norse. It's not just someday invented by some foreign missionaries as is the case with chữ quốc ngữ . What I'm saying is that almost every country in the world underwent spelling reforms to some extent, some even in recent years to conform with the actual pronunciation of their respective standard spoken language. Sadly, this didn't happen in VT since it was colonized by France.

@@광동아재廣東大叔 correct, but I could pick up a 500-year-old book written in a Romance language and understand it, albeit with some minor difficulties. However, doing the same with English is a bit more challenging. I am not quite sure how this works with Vietnamese

@@user-ik8wd9vm7rVietnam used to have a writing system called Chu Nom 字喃 before the French colonial government started to spread out the current romanized letters that were firstly made by the early Portuguese and Spanish missionaries. It derived from Chinese letters and was followed by newly combined and reconstructed letters to represent the indigenous Vietnamese words. These letters are not typical Chinese, and very hard to learn, so only a few highly educated could understand their meaning.

@@user-ik8wd9vm7r Before the introduction of the alphabet, we used Chinese characters. As a result, it is nearly impossible for a Vietnamese person without any knowledge of Chinese characters to understand those writings. Some people view this change in the writing system as a tragedy because it has created a disconnect, making it difficult to understand what our ancestors wrote.