How She Became Fluent in English Without Studying Abroad

I interview Trang, a Vietnamese girl from the coastal province of Ninh Thuan, about how she became fluent in English without studying abroad or going to a private international school.
This interview was filmed on Pham Viet Chanh Street in Binh Thanh District, Saigon, Vietnam.
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[@xdgs567z]

Trang has a natural talent to learn a foreign language very quickly

[@BigTimeBentley]

yeah she's very talented

[@robertnew4568]

More than a natural talent! She is extremely intelligent! Her brain is wired!

[@MrLarryQ]

Swear to God, I thought Trang was from Orange County, she has zero accent. I don't know who her teacher was but they deserve a medal. Trang put in the work too. Puts me to shame....three years of high school Spanish and I still can't pronounce Tecate.

[@BigTimeBentley]

haha how about "Dos Equis"?

[@damn671]

"Zero accent" is quite a bit generous.... she definitely has an accent.

[@ChrissieSM]

@@damn671, not a Vietnamese accent though. Her accent is way better than some people who were born in the US.

[@damn671]

@@ChrissieSM It's 100% a vietnamese accent. I can hear it

[@ChrissieSM]

@@damn671 , I made my husband listen to her without showing the vlog, he said she was from the US. He is white English , born and bred in the UK. He did not think she has a foreign accent. Where are you from?

[@SimpleLivingForever]

Hi Ben, I really impressed with Trang ability to speak English and her accent is just like she from here in America. I’m shamed to say that her English is better than mine

[@jayf4612]

Wow! This is truly impressive. She sounds like she's from the West Coast of the US. She speaks better English than some American born and educated folks.

[@timknguyen]

SoCal accent for sure! Some people are gifted with picking up a foreign language

[@laurale8155]

Trang is so bright learning English so quickly. Thks for the interview that answered to many of us who questioned where she got the English from.

[@LinhHoaTran]

My niece in Vietnam spoke that way. She came to the US to study, got married, and of course stays. It is amazing that within a decade, English has become prevalent and well spoken in Vietnam.

[@remhk6672]

She cute, charming, quirky and intelligent. Keeper😂

[@robertnew4568]

Marry her!

[@andrewtieu3651]

Trang is the real deal - very impressive and insoirational. She is extremely bright, articulate, talented, expressive, humbled, and beautiful in person and mind and trendy as heck. WTG

[@kevindang5949]

Great interview, Trang! Your english is solid. Keep it up.

[@huebui8470]

Wow, she's really a natural!

[@LinhHoaTran]

Informative video that you dig into her background and how she gets there. About more than 10 years ago, it was rare to find people speaking good English in Vietnam. Nowadays, many people speak at her level.

[@skatingcanuck9837]

This was a good interview. Trang touched on all the important points about language learning. I learned a while back that it is better to learn a language from a non-native speaker (in Trang's case Vietnamese teachers); They are better able to explain the language rules rather than depend on intuitive experience. I suspect Trang naturally has a good ear for languages. Her English accent is better than some anglophones I know. That is not to underestimate the amount of hard work required to learn a language. Trang is not only beautiful, but very smart. Tyler you are a lucky man. I think choosing Chinese over Italian is a smart idea because she won't be able to practise her Italian much in Vietnam.

[@yavormilanov4507]

Thanks Big Time Bentley! You further inspire me to bring my back parts in Nam and enjoy the life there!

[@BigTimeBentley]

awesome!

[@bearmerica6668]

Before seeing this I believed Trang lived in the west before. Such amazing english skills.

[@hlazz]

Wait... whaaaat! I thought she was from out here in SoCal living in Vietnam, her english is great. Very impressive, good videos!

[@tringo999]

Hello Bentley and Trang, Trang 's English are so well pronounced like American accent and well spoken I first thought that you're Vietnamese -american expatriate 😊

[@jimmyhoang83]

WoW!! she is a smart girl.

[@BigTimeBentley]

for sure

[@MikeB-in1nd]

Really smart

[@jw4111]

Great interview!

[@BigTimeBentley]

Thanks!

[@hohunghau]

My niece and nephew visited U.S. recently from Saigon. I was hoping that they could help my sons with Vietnamese, but it turned out they all conversed in English.

[@thetrueyorker]

She went straight from beginner to valley girl accent and mannerisms🎉

[@reefsurfing3273]

G'day Tyler and Trang, great interview with Trang learning how she learnt english, really cool, intelligent and a lovely young lady, what a keeper 😊,. Great little aussie slang remark there Trang haha, Cheers 🇦🇺🇺🇲🇻🇳🙏.

[@BigTimeBentley]

haha the accent was cute

[@reefsurfing3273]

@@BigTimeBentley definitely haha 😆

[@vincentnnyc]

i would say what contributed to her speaking english so well in vietnam is her gifted talent for learning new language and her teacher. there are some ppl out there that are just gifted in learning new language. if you do a search on youtube , there are black/white guys who can speak chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese etc. very well

[@ErnieTheDailyLearner]

Wow, her English is great! I hope my Vietnamese will get that good!

[@MikeB-in1nd]

Wow her English is amazing

[@nicolacrickmar8829]

Yes, speaking English like a native, no accent....if any accent it is American. She is an amazing woman, very pretty too, you are a lucky man.

[@manenwan]

Im vietnamese and ive never went aboard but im quite fluent at english with no accent. I used to suck at learning english the hard way through school but picked it up real quick when we had cable tv thus gave me access to shows in english. People say i have a natural talent at learning a foreign language but imo imitating how people communicate is my talent

[@BigTimeBentley]

that's a good strategy

[@zezekz4245]

Speaking a perfect US accent, u can't even tell that she's from vn. She's str8 americanized

[@skatingcanuck9837]

Has Trang travelled to an English speaking country? Tyler I would love to see a video of you going out for Korean food with Trang and her Mom. There are tons of great Korean restos in California - would love to see a video of you and your Dad trying Korean food there:).

[@apackaday5060]

I've spent my career in language acquisition and her English proficiency is remarkable, especially for someone who has not studied abroud. If she is still wanting to improve, the ONLY aspect of her speech that I could pick up on that differs from native on a regular basis is the 'th' when it occurs mid - word ofr mid-phrase. "anudder" instead of "another". "use dem" instead of "use them". "For da better" instead of "For the better". Very minor, and I had to listen without looking at the video to catch it. Her grammar, syntax, vocab are all superb. Thanks for sharing!

[@BigTimeBentley]

yeah the th- sound is a common difficulty for Vietnamese who are learning/speaking English. Interestingly, distinguishing between the t- vs. th- has always been difficult for me when I'm trying to speak Vietnamese.

[@LinhHoaTran]

She sometimes skips the last consonant sounds like s, z, t, etc. But many native Americans do that too. Usually, Americans skip these sounds in the middel of a sentence but will pronounce it at the last word(s). The Brits don't do that. It is just for speed. There is a term for it that I do not recall now.

[@earthtrotterjones7835]

Trang is mad smart and just tossed in she knows Chinese too. Mind blown 🤯 she never learned out of Vietnam 🙌🏼

[@tylertran93nsx]

Watching Friends, a lot of people learn that way. 😂

[@AAsoberlife]

She's so, adorable and smart bro.! Keeper! - The way she respected and called your Dad. Daddy. Keeper. :)

[@dyi620]

First of all, Tran is clearly very smart. Having a high IQ usually helps with the retaining & producing part of learning a new language.

[@888Peetah]

Sharp 👏

[@BigTimeBentley]

no doubt

[@minhtruong211]

Very impressed with her English. Like everybody else, I first thought she has backgrounds of living or studying overseas.

[@DungarooTV]

Trang speaks very good English. Much better than many Vietnamese that are born overseas. She has a sweet/funny voice - sounds a little like Bart Simpson. 😊

[@ln3995]

Very nice Trang . If u have an opportunity to visit America, which states would you visit and why? And what would you like to do while you’re there ? And yes, Tyler will be your chaperon😀.

[@thuanchau7042]

went to a brewery in saigon and workers there english sounded very southernish and i asked him and he said he learn from watching tv show/movies. these younger generation in vn speak and pronounce english better than me. lol

[@scratchtotable]

👍👍

[@VictorVoquiPSU]

Em gái pronunication is very chuẩn.

[@vincepham2997]

Man she should learn the aussie accent! It is the funniest one out there. Please Trang i can teach you this one haha

[@tw-75]

Her English is amazing! Sounds American.

[@shaolinm5540]

Tran English is better then 70 percent of Vietnamese that live in America 😁

[@sharkl11]

Her english is 70% better than all Americans

[@BigTimeBentley]

I agree

[@thompsonnguyen1870]

Where is that measurement coming from?

[@nocancelcultureaccepted9316]

Precisely! Her English is 100 times better than 80% of Vietnamese in America who have been living in the country for decades since the mass immigration in 1980’s. Clearly, not only these Vietnamese refuse to learn English, they continue to live as they are still in Vietnam. So, they live exactly with the culture as those are in the third world slum. What a shame for the Vietnamese community.

[@ExtraGuac007]

You should put down your banjo and get out more often.

[@ajkoolhand7101]

Incredibile. She speaks english better than me! :-) And I am born and raised in NY...LOL

[@hanhb6047]

I would have thought she was American born Vietnamese. I was born in Vietnam and was put in an after school Vietnamese grammar school at our church in America but I don't speak Vietnamese as well as her English.

[@ducturner7945]

I like Trang! Can we all go eat together when I’m in Saigon? 😊

[@phamchithien]

she also getting prettier ... hope you can mend it with her XD

[@sontruong2301]

😎👍

[@BigTimeBentley]

cheers bro

[@TeamEmperor]

She has the South Cali Accent.

[@MrLarryQ]

Tustin or Anaheim inflection @TeamEmperor? That's the main question.

[@TeamEmperor]

@@MrLarryQ Garden Grove/Westminster

[@a_sea_oasis]

Trang 🌟⚘️ Smart Gifted Hard working Down to earth Passionate Kind Humble Pretty Sincere Trang: please consider to be a Life Coach on your own KZbin channel speaking both Vietnamese and English. You will help effectively many people. You will be rewarded with so much great things. Greetings from California ❤

[@minhho8719]

The key of improvement in a language is to practice without d fear of making mistakes. U may b a nuisance to others , but u will advance.

[@mahlanie]

Can we talk about how you both met?

[@BigTimeBentley]

this video will be uploaded soon

[@MrLarryQ]

Most likely at the Del Amo mall in Torrance CA, I'd guess?

[@BigTimeBentley]

@@MrLarryQ no but that is my local childhood mall being a kid born in Torrance and raised in Redondo Beach. Some of my earliest and fondest memories are from that mall.

[@retrotero76]

I don't quite understand the meaning. Most of my friends are fluent in English without studying abroad. It's called school and TV helps too.

[@user-uz6ph2ur9t]

🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[@CSI426]

Her English teacher must be a native English speaker. I thought Trang was from the US returned to Vietnam.

[@BigTimeBentley]

she learned most of her English grammar from a non-native English teacher, and then vastly improved her speaking by interacting with native English speakers (like me)

[@beerinator9]

Does Trang want to teach viet to my daughter? Willing to pay her to do it.

[@scogginsscoggins]

I have never understood why Americans always struggle to learn a second langage.

[@BigTimeBentley]

To a large degree I think it comes down to a level of “what’s the point? The world defaults to a let’s speak English with each other for diplomacy purposes and we speak English already.” -type of mentality. So that discourages effort. But I do think a lot of people miss out on a sense of accomplishment that comes from learning another language, not to mention missing out on the ability to communicate with so many more people you wouldn’t be able to communicate without learning another language; not connecting with other cultures in a more enriching way, and so on. There’s actually a lot to unpack with regards to your curiosity on the subject, and I’m glad you took the time to post the comment. Hope you’re doing well Coggins

[@thaido3220]

I really admire Trang’s character to be a successful young independent person. However I think she belongs to the lucky class that can afford to pay for education because VN does not put big importance in education. When all the kids could afford to go to school free of charge between level 1 and level 12? Why kids have to stay home to assist their parents because they cannot afford to pay all the miscellaneous fees that they should not pay? What is the reason they could not do it and what Trang would do if she’s appointed as Minister of Education?

[@BigTimeBentley]

yeah some people are more privileged than others. the richest here in Vietnam send their kids to international schools that cost 20+ thousand USD per year. Trang was educated in public schools her whole life at a very low cost to her family and really made the most of her opportunities...I'm really proud of her for that. Unfortunately not everyone is blessed with the same opportunities but hopefully we can all do a little something to help others in less fortunate situations

[@thetran5000]

I'm surprised learning English by watching youtube is not mentioned.

[@stonechucker001]

An Aussie here yeah nah not sure her Aussie English accent was fairdinkum but good try though 👍

[@supertony4708]

The problem with Vietnamese when they speak english is way too many “like” and “you know”. So, you know, like, I’m really, like, you know, annoyed😂

[@judeliv5113]

I think the young Americans do it too 😆

[@UnderwaterFishFilms]

smells kinda fishy, no disrespect to her but how does she have that accent if shes from vietnam lol

[@thompsonnguyen1870]

You can learn anything and achieve it if you put your mind and effort. Your doubts is a great compliment to Trang. I didn't go to school for drawing but I was able to impress my coworkers and they said I was lying. They said I must have been in school for drawing. Anyway my point is anything is possible. Don't be jealous

[@UnderwaterFishFilms]

not jealous at all, thanks@@thompsonnguyen1870

[@ChrissieSM]

I learnt English at school in France, but improved not thanks to the mediocre teachers, but by listening to British radio programmes and reading English and American magazines and newspapers . Once we were asked to write an essay. When my paper was returned, the teacher did not mark it because she could not believe I wrote it myself. And this was well before I set foot in England.

[@ExtraGuac007]

Are you thinking bar girl or sleeping dictionary?

[@Tchf1000]

You need to do more traveling in Vietnam instead of restaurants that is too boring. i will take her mom anyday

[@lilyh3641]

my exact thoughts , her mother is actually very beautiful for an older woman. imagine her at his GFs age. The GF on the other hand I have no comment ..

[@doanduong7119]

Her English is good, but she still mispronounced some of the words if we truly paid attention (i.e grammar sounds like grandma). The way she speaks also has a very weird flow, flat tonal, it's like she doesn't know how to denote/stress words in a sentence, and arrange them in an incorrect sequence. The positives are she has an American as a bf so she can keep learning and improving, and how she gets to use them on a daily basis.

[@billc6019]

I was just saying to my Vietnamese wife Trang after watching your snail's feast video last night .. I wondered how Trang learned to speak English so well. Interesting video. No offense Big time, her English seems better than yours. On the other hand, your Vietnamese is much better than mine. Trang has good insight into teaching English and language studies in general. I hear some influence from American girls with her occasional up speak. I am so glad she does not adopt the ubiquitous Fry affectations which I find so annoying, So Kim Kardashian. . You should take control of some of your Vices and endeavor to resuscitate your romance with Trang.

[@ChrissieSM]

No, her English is not better than Tyler's. He is very well spoken, has a vocabulary range way broader than average. He uses a lot of puns and words that most people do not use or do not know about..

[@billc6019]

Perhaps he is more erudite than I'm aware, he seems to ramble at times. The purpose of my comment was not to denigrate Mr. Bently but to compliment Trang. But it's good to see he has loyal ass-kissers quick to come to his defense @@ChrissieSM

[@ChrissieSM]

@@billc6019 , to recognize somebody's abilities does not mean a-k, as you politely put it.