Chị Kayla Explains Vietnamese Accents

[@maikatran4698]

It's not just the accents that are different, the vocabularies too 🤣

[@cheesecakeandice]

Maika Trần this is true jskskdr when I was younger there were a few times where I couldn’t understand a word my aunt said cause she was from the north and I was raised with the southern accent

[@LANanh-ls7gu]

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[@LANanh-ls7gu]

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[@Justin-kp7wt]

I lost my accent but I can still speak a little :)

[@qui4n4]

I’m viet and I can understand my parents different accents, other people’s accents but never in my life could I understand a HUE PERSON they talk so fast too

[@khanhnhi452]

Same

[@hungle432]

Apparently, it isn’t an accent but a new language, even people living in Vietnam but not from Hue hardly understand those who come from Hue say

[@peterlounguyen3946]

Quiana Le u must have forgot the accent from thanh-nghệ-tĩnh... I swear to god hardly could i understand even a word they speak

[@huuduyvu9714]

Hungf Lee nah, it’s still Vietnamese, but closer to Muong people’s language and belief as origins of modern Vietnamese.

[@phuonglemackay2244]

Well don't feel bad about it. I was born and raised in Vietnam, and I couldn't understand some heavy accents from middle Vietnam region either.

[@vickynguyenduong6033]

when you realise you speak like bắc and nam combined

[@thien-anvu9241]

Same!

[@hoanghuong2554]

same,because my dad came from northern,my mom came from southern and the middle of VN so I can understand all,but I can speak north and south combined

[@rosiemild8206]

Vicky Nguyen Duong Same

[@2NE1972000]

When you're from regions like Vũng Tàu, Đồng Nai... sao many Bắc in Southern regions lol :))

[@vietgirl25]

OMG same here too!!!

[@Juztapoz]

My wife is from Vietnam, (quick background) it's her first time being in the US, she's been here for 6 months now and speaks nearly perfect English. She's very proud of her Vietnamese culture and loves finding videos that can help me understand the differences between our cultures as well as our languages. (example would be how just saying "Hello" in Vietnam isn't as simple as it is here, depending on if you're speaking to an elder or someone younger, etc...) The other thing she's mentioned to me is how within Vietnam there are different accents. So your video on Vietnamese Accents was an awesome find, your explanation about the differences along with your analogy to American and British accents was perfect! My wife's been trying to teach me Vietnamese Numbers and the Alphabet, she's now wanting me to use you're number's video. We really like where you're going with you Vietglish Fun! BTW: Videos with your mom we found hysterical!

[@TheChillyCucumber]

Anyone else here not Vietnamese or know anyone that speaks it (I myself am Latina with family in Puerto Rico, so I speak English and Spanish only), but love this video and this channel because it's absolutely fascinating to learn about a different language and culture?!

[@despairspreadslikeavirus9333]

I was a FLAMA subscriber so, I understand.

[@paulcrespo794]

🇵🇷🔥

[@AfriPrincess411]

Me! Nigerian American

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

I am Viet and I LOVE Puerto Rican people.

[@rartu]

I'm Puerto Rican and my girl is Vietnamese, trying to understand her a little better.

[@sewtell]

OMG i love this and i think its super accurate ! my families from the south and i agree that central vietnamese is the hardest to understand. whenever i describe it to my friend central would be irish-english

[@goccuahani]

Could we take a moment to appreciate how good her singing is 😍

[@CameronLeNguyen]

I also wanna point out that Northern Vietnamese accent will pronounce their Q's like an English Q (i.e. the Q in "Queen") but with a Southern accent they drop the hard Q and say it like an English W sound (i.e. the W in "Wing"). For example the name Quang would be said like "Wang" with a Southern accent. Gotta love Vietnamese! :)

[@thevannmann]

Correction - the qu in Northern Vietnamese is more like a gw- sound in English, not quite the same but very similar; the English 'qu' (cw/kw) sound's closest Vietnamese equivalent is Southern Vietnamese kh(o/a).

[@semicolon593]

My grandfather’s name is Quang, but my family (including him) pronounces it as “qwang” (We’re From mien tay)

[@silasli570]

Based on what y'all are saying, it sounds like QU is an unaspirated KW sound. Mandarin is the same way in the sense that there are no true voiced stops or affricates (G,B,D,J,ZH) but rather the key difference is whether they are unaspirated or aspirated. The aforementioned sounds are all unaspirated, while the sounds (K,P,T,Q,CH) are all aspirated.

[@franklinhu573]

no wonder when I tell them I was stationed in quinhon they don't understand. then they say oh, you mean weenhon.

[@franklinhu573]

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[@baomitranle9105]

Actually just a very very few Bắc people speak the "L" instead of "n", especially in the city. They are most likely to speak like that if they live in the countryside. Plus, I'm totally burst into laughing in the "leo" part, the replay button is dead.

[@linhduong0809]

Bảo Mi Trần Lê I am afraid to say, you must have hang out with a different group of Bac people I know. People who mix up L and N around me are laughed at. If it is the majority, nobody would care.

[@ntlunatic1364]

I live in Hai Phong and literary Nobody live in the city mixed up "L" and "N"

[@wassup_im_E]

VD nước in to lước

[@hithere7102]

I live in Ha Noi, and in fact none of the local there mix up "n" and "l" :3

[@sgcl10658]

Same with pronouncing R as G in the South. Only certain regions.

[@regn8470]

Because i was born outside of vietnam and learned Vietnamese by hearing from my parents I really have difficulty to understand any dialect but the bac one. This was so interesting! I'd love to lesrn more about the differences within vietnam

[@hienbui7914]

YOOO where my Nam people at?!!

[@applestamping488]

Hi lol ummm OK bye lol

[@Lilly-cw6ck]

✌️💓

[@meganmoyassoccermomyeh7069]

Hien Bui talk to my dad

[@kippnguyen6322]

Sup

[@alanajerman7626]

YOOO wassssuppp ok bye

[@jdb9388]

"im from Vietlam.. i do leo" 🤣🤣 omg more please have me on the floor

[@KingOfKingize]

Hey Kayla. Really appreciate that you made this video to clear things up. Although I'm from Saigon and very proud of my Southern accent, I do believe that we should teach people Vietnamese based on the standard Vietnamese (yes, there is a standard way to pronounce Vietnamese and neither Nam people nor Bac people really speak that thing,but it is wayyy closer to Northern pronunciation than the Southern one). So imo, a V should be pronounced correctly or foreigners may think that the letter V in Vietnamese is pronounced like the Y in English. Another thing that maybe you're not aware of, that is in Vietnam, North vs South is still a hugely debated topic, especially on the internet. Sad thing is I saw people arguing on the internet about which is better, and being discriminatory to each other, just because Nam accent is used to teach Vietnamese to people. So this video here would really help to clear things up. P/s: I also recommend foreigners to learn Bac Vietnamese as it is easier. When I speak with my Saigon accent I use so many slangs that my Northern friends cant understand lol. And we also write things different than how we pronounce it so learning the Nam dialect would be a bigger challenge for foreigners. But I'll have to admit that a foreigner speak Viet in a Nam accent sounds wayy better. I have an Aussie friend who does, and when he actually uses Southern slangs, that is one of the most amazing thing.

[@richbrook101]

Finally, an educated comment that doesn't involve politics. I am from the North and think the Southern accent is really cute, and Middle accent is just, well, a bit hard to catch. Anw, I agree that foreigners should learn the Northern accent, not only because it is easier, but also pronounced the way the language is written. That way foreigners will have an easier time writing Vietnamese down.

[@liamhuynh3490]

Actually, the Southern accent has its own standard, just like the standard American English, some letters do sound different from how they are written. I personally think that we shouldn't set a common standard for everyone, but have a separate one for each major group.

[@Blasko007]

I agreed with u alex tran :)

[@mschen3938]

Minh-Anh Truong I know right. South Vietnamese is way easier to learn...I honestly can’t understand Northern Vietnamese with thick accent even though I spent 16 years of my life in VN.

[@minvi152]

Agreed, though I’ve spent the last decade and few years learning Nam Vietnamese, I don’t really know that many slangs because like Chị Kayla, I was born outside

[@DANLIAOFreeToLearnChinese]

You are brilliant!!! Love your personality !!!

[@rainny813]

I do leo had my dying, girllll. LOL

[@kevin_.h5631]

2:16 She Sounds like the Google Translator For Vietnamese lol

[@yixuanwoo]

Her singing is REALLY good!

[@nahaan6078]

Cảm ơn chị vì đã làm video để tạo cảm hứng cho người khác học tiếng Việt! 1 người Việt sinh ở nước ngoài mà nói tiếng Việt rành như chị thật sự rất đáng khen! Ủng hộ chị 👏🏻💐

[@mydoooom]

I do... leo 😂😂😂😂😂😂 killed me instantly!! You're the wackiest and funniest Viet I know

[@Yukitopro]

Viet Anh Tran i believe she is not Viet lol she's american

[@mydoooom]

Jeremy Nguyễn duh obviously

[@thuwuwo]

You mean vietnamese...? Btw she is truly Vietnamese.

[@ngocthinh2192]

Đúng rồi :v thằng kia người việt nam ý mà :))

[@Yukitopro]

Lol her parents are from South Vietnam, and she was born in the states, so yeah, your argument is invalid. She's American, not Viet.

[@swtlikecndy4119]

4:12 I died bc that's literally what my mom says when we call each other LMAO

[@lpstaiga1212]

I-

[@HanissNg]

Its so funny how you compare bac accent to british english, I never even thought of that!😂 I speak bac so I never realised it may sound more sophisticated or whatever, just like i never knew why, no matter what part of VN you're from, you still sing with bac accent😄

[@MinhPham-vx3eb]

Haniss Ng same😂😂 I was sitting here and speaking in Vietnamese trying to figure out the British accent

[@judgementalTX]

Because its not optional, not because it sounds better. Doubt you would have much of a career if you tried to sing with the southern accent.

[@zKalElz]

Haniss Ng because Bac is popular so everyone can understand what you're singing. Local accent is just for folk songs.

[@HieuNguyen-pg5kb]

Duong Nguyen popular my ass. main accent in Vietnam is south accent and that's why the country named VIET NAM (NAM mean SOUTH) and when you sing you mix both nam and bac accents. and I wouldn't understand what they say if vietnamese people use L instead of N in vietnamese Language Lol 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@zKalElz]

Viet Vo you don't even understand the name of this country :(

[@hanhumymy]

Hey Kayla, I really like this video! I used to teach Vietnamese to foreigners (semi-pro with a teaching certficate). You do know a lot about Vietnamese language and your examples are brilliant. You are charming and hillarious in your videos too. I wish all young Viet Kieu would love getting to know more about their mother tough language just like you! When I was still in Vietnamese language, there was a Vietkieu mom trying to persuade her daughter to learn Vnese. The young girl was so rebelled thinking that she was American (an upper race) and didnt need to learn the language of a lower race. Well, sad story!

[@minascookie2038]

Not every song in Vietnamese is sung with Northern dialect. For example, cải lương is in Southern dialect, with the Northern one, it would sound kinda weird.

[@LongNguyen-nd2bt]

It doesn't really count since cải lương is a region-specific music style. If you look at the general Vietnamese music scene at the moment, every singer sings in Bac accent.

[@minascookie2038]

+Long Nguyen I know you're talking about mainstream music which sounds better with Northern dialect of course but it's harsh to say that cải lương doesn't count because it has its own history and reflects moral values, it often deals with Vietnamese social and cultural norms or the plot is about some ancient legends.

[@LongNguyen-nd2bt]

Shippo Chan It is because of that exact reason that cải lương doesn't count. The music style is developed simultaneously with the people and with the culture, which cannot be mimicked by any other region. Every tradition is, in a weird manner of speech, tailored to the region it is born in. Therefore, as Kayla is discussing singers in general and not in the context of any region, it is quite unfair that you mention cải lương, a musical style specifically tailored for Southern accent.

[@minascookie2038]

+Long Nguyen Ok I get your point, just thought it was harsh to say it doesn't count as everything has its reason to exist

[@thevannmann]

Long Nguyen Not every singer (there are certain artists who put Southern elements into their songs like Phong Le, Tronie and Karik + the many Southern rappers, even LIP B puts Southern parts into their song) but for the most part and this is more to do with the golden age of music where a generic Northern standard was used to sing because it was said to capture the language more fully in song form. This is why everyone despite their regional accent tends to sing in a generic Northern standard. It was adopted after the golden age of Vietnamese music. In a similar way, most English speaking artists from the UK and Australia sing in a generic voice that sounds more North American in nature. You're wrong about cải lương being Southern-specific though, there is definitely a Northern style that developed. Whether or not it was "tailored" to any one specific region doesn't change the fact that cải lương has been adopted up North and developed into its own style - even if it's nowhere near as popuiar as the Southern variant.

[@cardcaptorsabrina]

thank you for uploading this video! my boyfriend is trying to learn Vietnamese and he had a hard time differentiating the different accents. I've tried to look multiple times on KZbin but this was the only one that actually did a compare and contrast on the different accents. :) I'm glad you were the one who uploaded it as well, since we've watched several of your other videos together lol!

[@nguyenhelen1913]

I have thought that Northern accent is a general Vietnamese accent. Now I know that there is no "standard accent" because of the muti-accent in the country. Each region has a different accent, so Vietnamese people should learn and respect. Kayla, Thanks for your language preservation. Hope you make more videos for learning Vietnamese ^^

[@conho4898]

Actually, because Hanoi is the capital city, northern dialect is the standard one. The only reason why southern dialect is popular is because Saigon is an economic center. The entire country is expected to teach northern dialect in schools.

[@thevannmann]

The problem with "language conservation" is that the govt has been trying to stamp up the other dialects by imposing their Hanoi standard since 1976. This means that many older words from the South have been replaced by the Northern equivalent - but they've been preserved overseas. Prior to 1975, each side had its own standard dialect but due to the communist takeover, Vietnam had the Northern dialect imposed as the standard "written" form.

[@conho4898]

It's not really 'communist takeover'. It always happens when a country is united. For example, ,South Korea's standard dialect of Seoul Korean, while trying to stamp out regional dialects. The same happens in Japan with Tokyo Japanese, and most prominently with Chinese Mandarin stamping out other varieties of Chinese in the country.

[@zKalElz]

Yan Yan No, there is "standard accent". Imagine a foreigner studying Viet, how can they write the word "con voi" exactly while they speak it "coong yoy"? Respect all, but standard helps us understand each other.

[@HieuNguyen-pg5kb]

Duong Nguyen then how can foreigners learn right when the correct word is "đúng rồi" and they pronounce "đúng giồi"????🤣🤣🤣

[@cindynguyen9139]

Omg love this, you are so spot on with the accents !!! Loved it !!!!

[@quynhvo4955]

I go to Vietnamese school. My teacher is from North. My parent are from a city that belonged to the central a long time ago. Now it belongs to the south. So I just have to learn everything. And when I speak Vietnamese it's all over the place with different accents

[@tblism265]

Quynh Vo i got your point haha that's interesting tho

[@graceng5459]

Quynh Vo Just keep your Southen accent, it's make us pround

[@QuynhNguyen-xc8iv]

Quynh Vo if u talked about Champa that in Central Vietnam

[@celinenguyen4553]

Quynh Vo I know you!!!! You're in my physics class I sit next to you notice me!!!!!!

[@minvi152]

Most of my Vietnamese teachers have been South and I am too, my dance teacher is North too Also love your profile picture

[@deeptrust4295]

I basically watched one video of you when starting out learning Vietnamese. My index finger somehow moved on its own to click subscribe. With other words, you do a brilliant job. Thank you for the hard work you put in and sharing fun with us. ☺

[@cyberous7018]

Really interesting stuff! I was born in Nha Trang, came to the states when I was 5 (long long ago, before any Vietnamese people were here lol) I wish I knew how to speak Vietnamese! Its too late for me now but I appreciate your videos as they are fun and informative!

[@justynaguirre4584]

Don Noah rip

[@kevinha8083]

It's never too late. It may take longer to soak it in but I believe you can do it :)

[@donman1727]

lmao Im from hue and I never thought of a hue accent sounding like an Indian accent, but you're right!!! it does lmao!!!

[@VinhPham3145465405]

hey people from North stop complaining South language and accents

[@mhuongwn]

Vinh Pham tớ người Bắc, và chưa thấy người Bắc nào phàn nàn về tiếng Nam cả. Bạn có thể lướt lên và đọc cmt sẽ có vài bạn Nam kêu giọng Bắc nghe như người nước ngoài và người Bắc cũng nói về giọng Nam như vậy( đây không phải lời phàn nàn ). Đó là ý kiến của mỗi người khi họ không thể nghe được giọng địa phương khác. Yên tâm :))

[@tranminhuc4858]

Hương Mai Do bạn k thấy chứ lướt nhiều chỗ mà có cmt phân biệt vùng miền thì luôn có những bạn người Bắc bảo người Nam phát âm ngọng :))

[@atlai8019]

@@tranminhuc4858 những chỗ phân biệt vùng miền thì họ hay lôi những cái không hay của vùng miền khác ra nói rồi cãi lộn. Còn thực tế, mình là người Bắc và mình chưa thấy người Bắc nào nói người Nam nói ngọng cả. Định nghĩa nói ngọng của Ng Bắc là chỉ người phát âm sai "L,n" hoặc là em bé mới bi bô biết nói thôi.

[@NCXitlali]

Never!!!!

[@richard202]

Northern have no humor....lmao

[@cloudyolk_]

4:47 THAT CRACKED ME UP, I’M LAUGHING SO HARD RIGHT NOW!!!! XXXXDDDD

[@sunsetxsong]

I am really enjoying your videos. I have been afraid of learning Vietnamese because the language concepts are so different from the romance languages that I am familiar with. I did not know where to even start. Your videos are helping me learn :D I hope to learn some basic sayings so that I can communicate better.

[@iPaintSilence]

I'm american and I went ot vietnam this summer, I really appreciate you spreading the viet language! :)

[@bendumonde]

I can't speak Vietnamese but as a linguist and language lover this is super interesting! :D

[@dylannguyen3859]

(In my Experience) Bac: Sophisticated Royalty Nam: Southen Hillbilly Trung: What the fuck is going on

[@johnnymarbles9070]

Yeah, not really. Back then, the Trung accent was considered to be "royalty", since the Nguyen dynasty move the capital there.

[@kasandrabui6110]

​@@johnnymarbles9070 ... Then it's the Birmingham accent of Vietnamese. Royalty to the boot. But my grandmother's neighbor is from Trung. She had to repeat her sentence 3 times, till I realized she asked if I ate yet 😭😭. It really sounds Southern tbh

[@johnnymarbles9070]

@@kasandrabui6110 Depend on what type of Central. Like you got North Central like Hue, Nghe An and Quang Tri. Then you have Phan Rang, Phu Yen or Khanh Hoa central.

[@geen7176]

i do..leo 😂 it made my day..

[@Kimberly-gq8zv]

Actually to me the north accent would be like normal American English while the south would be like a country accent but in Vietnamese..I mean it's literally in the south

[@sgcl10658]

She's talking about the South, not geography.

[@scrapingskies]

I love more informative vids like this :) please make more vids on viet culture~

[@thaonguyen9390]

Girl! You explained all of them so well! I love your videos because they're really entertaining while being very informative at the same time. Keep up the great work! :))

[@giangquangvinh6487]

"Con rất là đẹp" -Kayla-2017

[@vietnamjed]

I'm with you. I spent 2 years in Ho Chi Minh City. Your pronunciation sounded great to me 😀

[@mydoooom]

Oh and the not pronouncing n's correctly -- it's common in the Haiphong region and near it. My granny often talks like that (we come from Thai Binh, neighbouring province). Although the accent is Northern, it's not considered classy. That would only be the Hanoi accent, equivalent of the middle class London English. We also can't understand the Mien Trung :D

[@rusty115p]

my wifes family is from thai binh, lemon is nemon and hello is said henno, but people from hai phong swap n for l so they say lovember

[@kyvu9971]

I come from haiphong and i think that the people who pronounce the “n,l” incorrectly, nearly all of them come from the countryside because my family and all of my friends pronouce it correctly ( we live at the city center)

[@chanthakim]

It's fascinating to see you mixing the different Vietnamese accents with English. I speak the Nam accent and always find it interesting to listening to a Hue speaker. BTW, your presentation skill added a tremendous amount of flavour to the clip. Thanks for sharing

[@jungkookbts2819]

lmao i could never understand a viet person who speaks bac. It sounds very foreign to me cause my family is from the southern part vietnam.

[@anniepham3666]

Tiffany Nguyen same 😂

[@kimvu7671]

Tiffany Nguyen ME TOOOOO. I went to northern VN one summer and it was so embarrassing bc I couldn't understand every other word someone said 😅😅

[@FcukN00bs]

Opposite way for me. I'm from the northern part and southern is just foreign to me

[@mabelfrommars]

Me too. God, Hue voice is the most difficult to hear for southern people like us :((( idk why huhu

[@bruhewasis9289]

same

[@purplesomeone]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA i loved this video. THank you for making these! My mom and dad could speak English and didn't realize it would be pretty good to raise us bilingual and worried about us in American schools so they shielded my sisters and me from Vietnamese. So i'm trying to learn on my own as an adult and it's very difficult

[@lorisinh3732]

Ok soooo I'm Vietnamese and I was born in America but my parents are from the right side of Vietnam sooo i don't really know what kinda accent my parents have...

[@strike6.]

the right side of Vietnam would be...uhm the Pacific Ocean.. if you're looking straight at the map, or the Jungle.. if you're laying on the map. So, you're actually either a Mermaid or a "Tarzan" descendant.

[@lorisinh3732]

strike6cc No not the Pacific Ocean, It's The right side of Vietnam that has LAND

[@JustinAndrews76]

@Lucy CottonCandy. The accents are based on a horizontal schism -- ie, North, South, Central -- rather than a lateral one. Remember Vietnam is a thin and long country. So realistically Haiphong and Vung Tau are both on the "right" side of Vietnam -- ie, East, coastal -- but have completely different accents, as Haiphong is in the north and Vung Tau is in the south.

[@tuanmnguyen7559]

If the "right side" means East, it could be South Eastern of VN. In Vietnam, the Southern itself is divided into two smaller parts East and West. HCMC (aka Saigon) is one of 6 South Eastern provinces. Another region which had use the "East and West" Term is The mountainous in the north, but i don't think so many pp in that area had immigrant into US.

[@strike6.]

LOL, ok still don't know what you meant but ok, at least you're not a Mermaid LOL Vietnam's land territory has an S shape with kinda fattened ends, and those ends are Northern and Southern of VN. It's more common for people to locate their region by NS direction first, rather than EW, and that's also how accents are differed in VN, mostly (through N-S)

[@pmayh3m]

Hilarious educational and adorable. I died. Any help learning Vietnamese is always welcome. Please keep the videos coming. These are awesome.

[@dpMomoTato]

I loved this video. You're awesome You're right about how fast they talk... omgoodness it's hard to understand.

[@ouramericanlife690]

Hi,Kayla! My kids loved your video!! They laughed a lot!

[@olvr5015]

Y’all are so fascinated about hue, but I’m shook when I hear you guys. I can understand, but some of the words are different, so I get confused a lot.

[@xshinee0bubblesx]

I’m not even Vietnamese and I found this video great and educational for someone who knows close to nothing about the Vietnamese language! Also you’re super cute!

[@ParakeetWorld]

My mom is from Huế, and my dad is from Bắc. And when I speak vietnamese I use a Huế accent :D (Sorry for the nonsense grammar, I was born in America, and I am really bad at vietnamese. All I know is that it does not make sense lol. Hope you can understand it!) Also, when my mom says zip, it sounds like yip 😂 . Currently where I live, it's cold so I always hear, "Yip it up!" XD.

[@Zombiedmonkey]

You’re fantastic. Thank you and i Admire your work. I Found you on tic tok. Your numbers and animal name YT videos are the best! I’m hoping to learn viet so i can have small conversations with my girlfriends mom. Thanks for breaking down the viet pronunciations into words we use in English. It helps so much.

[@donman1727]

lmao you're so funny, but informative too!!

[@OPhillyimagetv]

You are simply awesome to watch! Your humor and energy is off the charts.

[@learnvietnamesesvff1216]

I have South Accent :D, and i agree with chị Kayla :D

[@tienle355g]

Awesome! Great job and great humor! Love it keep up the great work.!

[@viviannguyen7943]

Omg this is so funny when you actually understand it 😂😂

[@ConnieAntoinette]

lol Omg, this cracked me up so much. You are great. My family have a northern accent and it was always so confusing to grow up listening to Southern accents in those dubbed Hong Kong shows.

[@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586]

I always thought northern Vietnamese accents sounds like an chinese person speaking mandarin. I don’t know. Just how it’s sounds like to me

[@tgsoon2002]

(edited)Yeah. so Vietnamese language have lot of borrow word from Chinese sound and meaning with Latin writing(thanks to Alexandre de Rhodes, a Portuguese missionary). A lot of word in Vietnam have same meaning as some word in Chinese. We have separate type of those word. Chinese-Vietnamese word and pure-Vietnamese word.

[@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586]

ToiYeuYAHWEH calm down

[@Spiegelei1133]

ToiYeuYAHWEH wtf? go educate yourself.

[@sonyavi03]

Yeah

[@benjia7906]

Paul the 2 marek Sørensen Enig, du. Kunne ikke lige ignore du var dansk😂

[@ronisprincess]

Trying to teach my kids vietnamese is very hard but your videos are helping them greatly. My husband and his family are from the south so your videos are great.

[@kieuloan3696]

Actually i come from the middle region but i have no idea what Nẫu accent is or even Nẫu is

[@KingOfKingize]

Khoai Môn nẫu là từ người miền Nam gọi người/giọng Bình Định-Phú Yên đó bạn, có khi bao gồm luôn xứ Quảng

[@kieuloan3696]

À ra là thế, thảo nào tớ không biết =))))))

[@mimih8902]

Alex Tran, Cam on cau tra loi cua ban. Ngay xua toi o Saigon nhg ko biet chu Nẫu, ve sau hoc dc chu nay khi ra Nha Trang choi, nhg chi hieu nom na la tuong duong voi "nha que" hay "ng nha que". Bay gio thi hieu ro hon dc chut :D

[@FilmmakingPro]

Hi Kayla I’m Ellie’s friend and she told me about your channel and I’m glad because thanks to you I know what Hinative is and it very convenient for my studies

[@angelicgaming7146]

The accent you talk is what I use

[@huyked]

I'm Vietnamese, though my Vietnamese isn't great by any stretch of the imagination. It was interesting hearing you describe what the accent would be like in English. :D Pretty neat.

[@DuongTran-jy6rj]

cover lạc trôi đi chị

[@silentj624]

This is so interesting to me. My pharmacist is from the south and one thing that always stuck out to me was how she rolls her r's when she speaks English! Like, were you a Spanish speaker in a past life? LOL I could listen to her say "prescription" ALL DAY. I will definitely as her about this next time I see her.

[@khquanceyt3683]

Giỏi tiếng việt quá he tui là người việt và là người miền nam luôn hêh

[@lekhanhlinh3001]

Khquance YT bả là người Việt cơ mà =.=

[@Yukitopro]

Linh Chi ng Mỹ, k phải Việt..

[@khquanceyt3683]

Toi biết rồi

[@lekhanhlinh3001]

Jeremy Nguyễn bả gốc Việt~~

[@Yukitopro]

Linh Chi k có nghĩa là ng Việt

[@lynnmcfadden9011]

Lol love the mom throwing out a complement after you mentioned you’re recording... “đẹp”. My mom is from Saigon and my grandmother was originally from China so my mom has a slightly different accent from my grandmother. I kinda mix them together and some people say I sound like a little kid when pronunciating words, but my accent sound Vietnamese.... just not really fitting nam sometimes. Gosh, I’m slacking on teaching my daughter, she will butcher the language more than I do at this rate.

[@thanh-sangnguyen8006]

I'm hue and the hardest accent for me is bac lol

[@MinhPham-vx3eb]

Thanh-Sang Nguyen lol I'm Bac and the hardest for me to understand is hue

[@angnhung678]

same

[@thuyvi7465]

I'm the one who can speak 2 accents and the hardest for me is hue

[@banhmycha9072]

Thanh-Sang Nguyen I'm Nam and I found hue accent cute as its own way.

[@thanh-sangnguyen8006]

Bánh Mỳ Chả aww thanks (≧∀≦)

[@muonwant]

Hahaha. So fun! Good job! Keep mahkin more videos!

[@marianguyen4512]

I always explain to my western friends that, bac sounds like americans, because the accent is so harsh, nam sounds like british, because they're accent is more softer and trung sounds like scottish or irish 😂

[@despairspreadslikeavirus9333]

Having grown up around nam speakers I can say for sure the word soft will never be able to describe nam ever for all of history. Of course it could be because I hear it yelled mostly.

[@TeenJaden]

I have a bac accent and where I'm from the only vietnamese people here are nam. Soft doesn't come to mind when I hear vietnamese people talk, everyone's always yelling, period xD

[@blessedevelyn339]

@@despairspreadslikeavirus9333 Nam is Cockney English.

[@uo5485]

No nam more americans

[@gamanghong4823]

you're so admirable to me, will watch your videos repeatedly !

[@AnhChuP]

i don't think "i do leo" is an accent thing. it's a personal problem that people having it try to fix

[@longdang1119]

Anh Chu yeah north people are so strict on pronunciation. People with that kind of mistake get humiliated a lot until they can fix it. That's the difference compared to the south. In the south, they pronounce as they like and ruin the language so hard. Before 1975, the "v" and "d" sounds were really accurare spoken in Saigon. But now they just speak wrongly and use accents as a reason.

[@519forestmonk9]

This channel is so much fun

[@vivt.7959]

I'm Vietnamese I was born in Orlando and I'm veitnam :3 and i know what ur saying girl, I can relate to you :3

[@phuonganhtran7850]

Vinko Chan uhm dude, were you really born in Orlando cause you spelled the word Vietnam wrongly AND Its "I'm a Vietnamese" not I'm veitnam

[@meoandanh2260]

Vivian T Does your family teach you Vietnamese in the US? Because Vietnamese can not spell misspelled words "VietNam". Nếu các bạn không biết nói ngôn ngữ của dân tộc thì bạn không còn là người Việt Nam thực sự nữa. Vì thế đừng nên dùng từ " I am Vietnamese" để diễn tả về mình ! I think you don't know what I just said :)

[@JoeB1946]

Your videos are very helpful and fun to watch, and you are very talented.... Thanks

[@chloetang8509]

My mom says “towel” as “tower” 😂

[@GrizzlyWin]

That was very accurate, and funny af lol. Been years since I seen you Kayla! Love all your vids!

[@CreateTheFire0000]

sớm quá :)) 5h sangd

[@MichaelELambert]

I think all of us grew up thinking that ALL Asian accents sounded the same. Just like ALL British accents, or ALL American accents. But I have learned over the years that we have learned to differentiate between dialects of certain regions from our own culture as well as OTHER cultures. This video has helped me understand about my own accent and dialect. Thank you for educating me on your video.

[@sleepycake32]

3:04 LOL crack me up

[@medicalliz440]

could you share the features when Vietnamese speak English? I need to understand my Vietnam customers English-speaking desperately, thank you so much!

[@greyangel14]

Hi, I think you're mixing up accent and dialect. So in each dialect (northern, southern, middle) there are different accents that are associated to certain regions. For example, people from Gò Công (a soutwestern region) has southern dialect but has a Gò Công accent. Also, there's traditional accent in each dialect, and then there's non-traditional. In your video, you have a very southern accent (non-traditional but more common) as compared to traditional southern accent (watch news being reported from HTV channel and you'll see). Also, your impression of northern dialect is that of traditional northern accent (watch news on VTV). There are other northern accents. Nẫu and Huế are different accents of the middle-region dialect. Also, the most correct form of Vietnamese are considered the traditional accents of each dialect. FYI. :)

[@HoangLinhBuiSilverDrone]

I don't think you can call N, S and M Vietnamese dialects because they are not nearly as far away from each other as for e.g. Mandarin and Cantonese to be considered dialects. People from the North can still communicate with people from the South without troubles, however, a Mandarin speaker can't communicate with a Cantonese speaker. Therefore, North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese should be considered accent instead.

[@miketoller1891]

Thank you, Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉

[@turinju]

For me, the southern one is the sexiest accent and the laziest too (y)

[@killerkimm]

Asian-American here, grew up taking Viet classes and speaking with a northern accent. Northern = pronounce it the way it is spelled, which explains the hard V and Z sounds (di ve / may gio)

[@meomeomeo7917]

Chị Kayla pls do a cover of Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" in Vnm :') Love yew so much ❤

[@linhslife7515]

Love this and love your videos

[@cocoapuff_x]

Tbh Southern accent sounds more like Cantonese and Northern like Mandarin.

[@letterstosumin3693]

I grew up with a lot of Vietnamese and Cambodian people in Adelaide Australia, I think Vietnamese accents are the cutest thing. It reminds me of being a little kid, like makes me feel warm like imagining the smell of your mothers cooking :)

[@simply_shaelene8933]

but I can say the z and I’m Australian

[@davisngo663]

Pretty accurate to my knowledge, funny and on top of that when you become serious and starts singing it sounds really good. Keep up the good work.

[@tinanguyen6490]

lmao im speaking in bac accent and everybody here is written that this ona is the hardest one. I live in Poland with vn parents and I don't speak vn very well but I always thought the bac accent is the easiest to hear. For me it's not so easy to quickly understand nam or trung accent

[@mimih8902]

Hi Tina, it's just a question of habit. I remember when I lived in London (England), every time I watched an American show, it sounded awful to me, the accent sounded rude & piercing. But now, I live in Canada and find British accent snob. Sometime, I can't even understand what they say in "Coronation Street", which is the soap I used to watch every day & loved :)

[@linhang6628]

Probably because the Northern accent (Hanoi) differentiates all 6 tones very clearly, while many other accents just have 5 tones. However, it does not necessarily mean that the Northern accent is harder to imitate, it just depends on whether if you are familiar with the sound of that accent or not. In your case, maybe your parents have Northern roots so you will hear the Northern accent more easily.

[@heidifernandez7489]

The call with your mom made me smile. Thank you for the video

[@mpvv13]

C nói giọng Bắc hay hơn ❤❤

[@jessxngo_]

this is so funny!! love your videos!!!

[@CupcakeKacey]

north accent sounds so much like chinese

You got mine, more specific it's like Mandarin.

[@graceng5459]

Right on point !

[@richbrook101]

Nah Southern accent sounds more like chinese, since there's no 'w' sound in northern accent.

[@Blasko007]

North sounds like cantonese and south sounds like mandarin

they are mix with Cantonese when 2 million of them live in Saigon before the year 1975. Now only 1 million left, other go to Singapore, Australia and American.

[@mjoycevillaflor9955]

First time to watch your video Watching from Philippines