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@GEOfocusChannel2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree! Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnbNepdqnK9rn7s 😎
@MinhNguyen-mf7jj2 жыл бұрын
- Kick: đá - Rock: đá - Ice: đá - Stone: đá
@Taylor_not2 жыл бұрын
@@MinhNguyen-mf7jj cái gì cũng đá hết :)))
@hahoangthong25162 жыл бұрын
Đá đá đá
@PhamHaiPhong20102 жыл бұрын
I am Vietnamese and I feel proud when the voice of my people is spread across the five continents. Thank you so much,Langfocus.
@lordheadass83103 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The word "ấy" can be use to replace 99% of vietnamese words in dialog
@ptt14043 жыл бұрын
Cái ấy người ấy và ấy ấy
@akhen09503 жыл бұрын
hôm ấy, có cái ấy của ông ấy đưa cho bà ấy ở chỗ ấy.
@DuckieAreSuckie3 жыл бұрын
Làm chuyện ấy không :)
@gamingislife98843 жыл бұрын
No
@gamingislife98843 жыл бұрын
U sussy baka
@jcxkzhgco30503 жыл бұрын
Latin Alphabet: You can use me Vietnamese: You don't fit my language Latin Alphabet: Well then, use diacritics then? Vietnamese: I'll take your entire stock
@flippert03 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@nonoseyt49973 жыл бұрын
Fr
@dustgreylynx3 жыл бұрын
Hey, Japanese, think about it
@ひろゆき二十一3 жыл бұрын
@@dustgreylynx I admit there is a charm in Japanese characters. But man it would be a huge leap in learning pace if Japan will adopt Romaji permanently.
@AlexBesogonov3 жыл бұрын
@@dustgreylynx Japanese syllabaries aren't that bad. It's the kanji that get you. And what's most infuriating is that syllabaries work perfectly fine if you add spaces between words.
@melanezoe3 жыл бұрын
At age 70 I decided to learn Vietnamese. It’s difficult to force my mouth to do what my ear hears. But I’ll keep going. Cam on and tam biet (both of which need diacritics my phone can’t manage.) I’ll save this YT to my Favorite Videos album. Thanks, Paul.
@khoiphan29903 жыл бұрын
you can do it! i wish you the best
@KobeCofini3 жыл бұрын
Xin chào :) I've been learning Southern Vietnamese recently, but I'm quite young at age 19. I'm not sure about the options on your phone, but for me I have a little globe icon on my keyboard that when I press and hold it gives me other keyboard language options, one of which has vietnamese and its accent symbols. On Apple phones it can be changed in the settings app. I don't know if this will help but I hope it does! Rất vui được gặp Anh.
@melanezoe3 жыл бұрын
@@KobeCofini thank you. That will help with my Drops, Memrise, and Duolingo exercises on my phone. I can manage already in Rosetta Stone on my laptop.
@Quyendo53 жыл бұрын
Don't give up! After understanding Vietnamese, i believe you'll find the beauty of our language 😊. I wish you all the best and have a nice day!
@huynhgiabao53713 жыл бұрын
I am so happy that you decided to study our language. I hope you can achieve many goals in your life while studying our language. Cảm ơn ❤️
@loveaodai10011 ай бұрын
Really top shelf video. I am originally from New York where I met a lovely Vietnamese lady in 1976. We married in 1977 and made our first visit to Vietnam in 1988 when and where I promised myself I would learn Vietnamese. After coming home I spoke only Vietnamese with my wife and her family who had come to America a few years before. I moved to Vietnam with my wife in 1995 full time where we remain. About the three dialects… I am lucky because in my small office in Saigon I had a native Hanoi speaker and a native Hue speaker among five staff where we all communicated in Vietnamese for many years and so I am reasonably familiar with all dialects. But the best thing about speaking Vietnamese is the nearly universal positive reaction one receives as a foreigner (especially a non Asian foreigner). I really enjoy living here in Vietnam and thankful that I have been able to learn the language reasonably well.
@grimeeeeey3 жыл бұрын
I'm Mexican and my husband is Vietnamese. I've been learning Vietnamese for 3 years now. It is a hard language especially since I have nobody else to speak with. Only my husband and my online teacher. Regardless, I love the language. It is so expressive. Tiếng Việt đáng học, for sure 🥰
@phongnguyen-sd6zl3 жыл бұрын
Hola, soy de Vietnam. Vivo en la ciudad de Ho Chi Minh. He aprendido Espanol por varias semanas y no tengo alguien de practicar. Puedo ayudarte de aprender Vietnamita y me ayuda aprender Espanol. Encantado de conocerte
@Thongdiepvutru99993 жыл бұрын
Yes. Keep it up 😀
@MeowTX3 жыл бұрын
I would like to learn Spanish one day. I find its pronunciation similar to Vietnamese
@TheBebabob3 жыл бұрын
vietnamese is hard but It’s best if you learn the southern dialect since it’s the most popular one . Central is literally a whole nother language.Most vietnamese people don’t even understand what they’re saying unless if you’re from Central Vietnam 🥲I’m just like you, my girlfriend is Iraqi, so i’m trying to learn Arabic and it’s really hard for me but i think it’s fun cuz i can teach her french and vietnamese and she can teach me arabic 😅
@shooyooyoon90073 жыл бұрын
it's called power of love, not power of linguistics
@Meocontuki3 жыл бұрын
Foreigners learning Vietnamese: why are there so many tones??? Vietnamese learning other languages: why the words keep changing all the time???
@Kainery3 жыл бұрын
The struggle mostly apply for English because how inconsistent the pronounciation. Other European languages don't suffer the same problem.
@Meocontuki3 жыл бұрын
@@Kainery What I mean are tenses, cases, genders, plural and things like that, but yeah, English pronunciation is another level of wtfness too
@danhdao74173 жыл бұрын
you don't have to learn all of them, just choose 1. It's basically about choices XD, don't worry too much about the accent. You sound amazing in many ways as long as you speak it clearly and grammatically. It also happens a lots to many native speakers as well, :||| some native people have the accent from middle mixing with north and South, or south with middle, and so on. Therefore, it really doesn't matter much about how you sound like. Just ask the teachers which accents you want to follow, they will simplify it for you.
@mr.bluefox35113 жыл бұрын
Is used to heard a Spanish guy who live in Vietnam said: It's easier for Native English speaker (or just people who can speak EN) to learn Vietnamese ... than it is for a Vietnamese person to learn English. Well at least foreigner can learn either Northern or Southern Vietnamese ... for us Vietnamese (or just me i guess) learning English in school compare to how people irl speak "normally" is quite diffirent. Back in my day most "English teacher" never learn English before. Many were used to teached Russian, French or German ... then one day they have to take 3 months of English Class to teach us student in school. I may only watch Disney cartoon or Hollywood Movie as a kid but i can clearly heard the diffirent in accent and pronunciation, they are not the same (some of my mother friends event speak better than my teachers, and they learned from there kid who study in college). Granted, these aren't bad teacher. They might be old but the writing & reading i learn from them is perfect ... it just there heavy German accent or Russian touge are not fitting. Nowaday i just hear my & older generations speak broken English with lots of Vietnamese accent in it. Lucky more younger English teacher wont have that issue, things does seem improving much more as my younger-sister now are beating me in everyday English conversation ... Oof. Also it was a mix of American English & British English they teached us in class, we kinda learned both of them so i mostly dont see the diffirent nowadays. Definitely not prepared me to adapt how diffirent English sound in other countries, like in Canada, Australia, South Africa, each USA states, ect ... This is just my opinion at least, it might look like a rant but i hope you dont read it like one. If you're thinking about learning Vietnamese i suggest you learn the Southern dialogue first, its more foreign friendly & Southern Vietnamese "generally" speak English better too so learn from them would be a good start ( I tell you as a Northerner :-/ ). I think you should to check out how Vietnamese "Hue accent" sound, it's maybe strange to your ears but very unique & have it's own charm to it. It's like how "thick Scottish accent" sound in English to us in Vietnam XD
@Meocontuki3 жыл бұрын
@@mr.bluefox3511 @Phantom in the tree sorry for causing some confusion... I've learned Vietnamese a long time ago... as a native :)
@vow46213 жыл бұрын
Gives example of different tones: "Hey, I can actually hear them!" Starts talking in sentences: "Nevermind."
@tjazmilano75823 жыл бұрын
Don't be angry
@rubiks63 жыл бұрын
It took me 10 minutes to understand the tones, intellectually. It took me 10 years of listening to be able to hear them. Something clicked one day while I was listening to a Vietnamese friend singing karaoke and suddenly I could distinguish the word tones from the melody of the song. The words were on the TV screen. It's like riding a bike. You can't do it and then in a moment, you can. Good luck to you.
@Odinsday3 жыл бұрын
I thought Mandarin was hard to understand with its tones. Vietnamese is a whole other level of subtle.
@aZnchuux33 жыл бұрын
@@Odinsday Now try Cantonese
@AlexBesogonov3 жыл бұрын
@@Odinsday Not really, the major difference are the broken tones.
@孫子 Жыл бұрын
As a Thai, I want to learn Vietnamese so bad. I've seen Vietnamese people effortlessly nail Thai pronunciation because their language has more number of tones.
@lamdathoa Жыл бұрын
some kind of similar of both languages ]]]]
@thianhduongnguyen4791 Жыл бұрын
it does sound similar to Thai my friend, dw it's not gonna be hard
@James42_8 ай бұрын
I like your profile picture
@孫子8 ай бұрын
@@James42_ Yours is nice too.
@dungcao14268 ай бұрын
I am Vietnamese. Vietnamese people have 54 ethnic groups and each ethnic group has 1 language. I can speak Thai people's language, I understand about 60% of what Thai people say.
@explosion50223 жыл бұрын
Just a fun fact: Here’s a word than can mean 3 different fruits simply by changing the tone dưa: melon dứa: pineapple dừa: coconut
@thaoanh50943 жыл бұрын
@@kyaumrungthung2390 actually, it's nước mắm not nước mắn =)))))
@meotokitoeriko.24013 жыл бұрын
@@thaoanh5094 hé hé :"D
@meotokitoeriko.24013 жыл бұрын
chuẩn méo phải chỉnh :))
@ruedigernassauer2 жыл бұрын
Different tonalities sometimes comprise related words in Vietnamese, like: "Một con voi vươn vòi lên. / One elefant (voi) stretches up his trump (vòi)." Or take "cánh", the bird´s wing and "cành", the branch of a tree (which usually shows down).
@vybui8392 жыл бұрын
Dựa means to rely on sb or lie on sb;)
@bigiasonuoc3 жыл бұрын
This man knows more about my language and its history than I ever did
@cuong67423 жыл бұрын
yeah ikr
@Hactica3 жыл бұрын
First time
@hieveryone.85083 жыл бұрын
Minh Nguyen. The same goes for the average people in every country.
@TuanKayTV3 жыл бұрын
Yes, sure. He has a deep knowledge.
@TonyLeTran2 жыл бұрын
yeah i'm also vietnam
@seihaiteamfs73333 жыл бұрын
Me, a Vietnamese who has spoken Vietnamese all my life watching this video: "Interesting."
@taekooklyf13073 жыл бұрын
aye same xDD
@tly42543 жыл бұрын
Same here lol
@need_coffine3 жыл бұрын
gib me astolfo bạn ơi
@tramanhphan35853 жыл бұрын
same lol
@assassinvip3 жыл бұрын
same :v
@trungquocle9232 Жыл бұрын
Một đặc điểm nổi bật của Tiếng Việt (không thấy nhắc tới trong video), khác hầu hết các ngôn ngữ khác (English as example) là cách dùng đại từ nhân xưng "chúng tôi" và "chúng ta" (both means "we" in English). Trong khi "we" (chúng ta) trong tiếng Anh không thể hiện rõ ngữ cảnh có hai nhóm đối thoại, nhóm A đại diện bởi người nói, nhóm B chỉ bao gồm một hay nhiều người nghe, tức có thể hiểu người nói đại diện cho cả hai nhóm A và B. Nếu dùng "chúng tôi" (also "we") sẽ biểu thị rõ ràng là người nói chỉ có ý đại diện cho nhóm A mà không đại diện cho nhóm B.
@hugng0612 Жыл бұрын
yeah 2 từ này có điểm giống với tiếng TQ, có lẽ đây là sự ảnh hưởng từ ngôn ngữ Hán
@calvintrainer1212 Жыл бұрын
Mình đóng góp thêm nha: chúng ta là khi nói với nhau (như we) trong cùng nhóm. Chúng tôi cũng là we mà nói cho người ngoài nhóm. Chúng ta nên đoàn kết chống giặc xâm lăng. Chúng tôi sẽ đoàn kết chống các ông đấy. Cám ơn bạn chia sẻ trước
@danjochi9 ай бұрын
Đúng là khác biệt rất rõ ràng, nhưng có thể tạm dùng từ "all of us" để thể hiện chúng ta trong 1 sổ ngữ cảnh
@hn54607 ай бұрын
Nothing special to mention here, just like in other languages, there are some words have different meanings, meanwhile in other languages different words are used to represent different expressions.
@tools_tools5 ай бұрын
@@hugng0612hán ngữ ko có chúng ta nhé
@tuanminhnguyen46253 жыл бұрын
I am Southern Vietnamese. I have no issues in communicating with people from the North since there are a lot of exposure from national television from the North. I also can speak Vietnamese in Northern accent since my Dad was originally from the North near Ha Noi . But I might have some issues with people from the Central more or less depends on their location, but also because there are much less exposure with Central accents and vocabulary on national television. P/S: I had been waiting for this video. Thank you so much. Love ❤️
@PauloPereira-jj4jv3 жыл бұрын
Why did you wrote Ha Noi, instead of Hanoi...? (Actually Ho Chi Mihn)
@trungduong40403 жыл бұрын
I agree with what you wrote here. I'm Northern Vietnamese and usually I can understand the Southern accent pretty well. There're lots of TV shows and movies produced in the South, so gradually I'm exposed to the Southern accent and vocabulary. For me, comparing different words used in two regions is always fun and fascinating ("lợn" and "heo" for pigs, "hoa" and "bông" for flowers, among many examples). However, accents in the central regions of Vietnam are much harder to people from the northern and southern ends to understand. If people from central regions of Vietnam speak fast, I think I understand about 10-20% of what they say.
@Franciscoluche3 жыл бұрын
Hi from Can Tho City 🤗❤️🇻🇳.
@Franciscoluche3 жыл бұрын
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Ola compadre, 😊 actually in Vietnamese language all words are separate in syllables. 😅 Even on my driver license, they wrote my name like this: Fran Cis Co Jo sé Mar Ques !!! 😂 They sometimes split foreign words too. 😁
@phuongvo55533 жыл бұрын
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv In Vietnamese, we separate the words. We write Viet Nam, Ha Noi, and Sai Gon, instead of Vietnam, Hanoi, and Saigon
@novemberguy3 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese dialects make easy: Northern Dialect: the British accent of Vietnamese, standard, formal, fancy. Southern Dialect: the American accent of Vietnamese, informal, simple, straight forward Central Dialect: the Scottish accent of Vietnames, cuz nobody understand a damn thing Edit: my god I never realized there are so many Vietnamese linguistics professors on KZbin. All of them replying to my stupid joke. All of them somehow from Central.
@mhuyshuffflin3 жыл бұрын
Ông nên lên top!
@khanhlyho1743 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@s.toctopusn2483 жыл бұрын
chém cha không bằng pha tiếng.
@Ribs3513 жыл бұрын
Haizzz lol
@Btuan773 жыл бұрын
@@s.toctopusn248 Ỗng chỉ đang so sánh giọng của các vùng miền thôi mà có pha gì đâu...
@kristheplayer44503 жыл бұрын
I'm Thai and Vietnamese sounds like a Thai speaker talking in a made-up language with a lot of tongue twisting. It's very funny and shocking because every time I hear Vietnamese I feel like I could understand it but I ultimately don't. Edit: In case anyone wonders how much Thai and Vietnamese sound alike, the two languages share the same pronunciation and tones of words with each other. That's why to Thai, Vietnamese and non-western ears, Thai and Vietnamese sound very alike. Here are some examples: - At 10:20 the Vietnamese word "người" has the same pronunciation as a Thai word 'เงย' (ngey), which means 'to look up' - At 11:37 the Vietnamese word 'không' has the same pronunciation as a Thai word 'คง' (khong), which means 'to maintain' - At 12:53 the Vietnamese word with high rising broken tone 'mã' has the exact same pronunciation and tone as a Thai word 'ม้า' (má), which means 'horse' These are just three examples. There are many more in the video, so you can guess now how much these two languages sound alike.
@thangnguyenvan78633 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese here and I feel exactly the same :D
@s0m4guy3 жыл бұрын
As a Vietnamese i feel the same lmao
@KajenDE3 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese here, i feel the same about Thai
@andreaxwa3 жыл бұрын
Likewise dear friend. I think Thai is really cool, but still it sounds very strange to me, familiar-sounding words that don't make any sense.
@zaxele3 жыл бұрын
lol you need to watch one of those Thai clips where we do Vietnamese subtitles because it sounds very similar to Vietnamese. Like [VIETSUB] MISS GRAND THÁI LAN
@gianghi94372 жыл бұрын
I came across many videos of yours on various topics before, yet this is the first time I've watched one on my mother tongue. I must say that I truly appreciated your effort in making this, all the different aspects of linguistics, authentic representatives of the Southern and Northern Vietnamese (as a Southerner, I enjoyed it so much hearing the Southern accent). And yes, as you said, like any language out there, people may find Vietnamese difficult to acquire, but as long as you can grasp the beauty of this language, you will just want to learn more! Keep up the great work!
@宋少女3 жыл бұрын
Foreigner friends, Vietnamese is easy! Let's start with the letter "a": a, ă, â, á, à, ả, ạ, ã :)
and I thought mandarin was bad, I can't deal with this
@skeedleknievel3 жыл бұрын
God
@chiasethuthuat12043 жыл бұрын
Start with ' u ' ư ứ ử ữ ừ ụ ú ũ ủ
@meep72193 жыл бұрын
the cursing in vietnamese is pure gold
@ThomasTheCrab3 жыл бұрын
Lmao tru
@typn78183 жыл бұрын
Duma
@hoangtrung215253 жыл бұрын
I hope you didn't mean it
@thanhhathanhha20813 жыл бұрын
“MÀY RA ĐÂY” “TAO LẤY ROI” “THẰNG CHÓ” And there’s more curse words, but they’ll start sounding weird, because most curse words in Vietnam are literally about animals.
@TranTran-ro8zb3 жыл бұрын
You can compare equally anything with an animal to humilate someone or something
@tnztng3 жыл бұрын
I often find comments saying they feel great to see their language getting a video explaining its vocabulary & grammar, reaching a wide audience and now I know how they feel. And as always keep up the good work. Cảm ơn Paul!
@phucletran28603 жыл бұрын
Research like this take hella effort, and even then speakers from that language may or may not know how to explain or even know half of this stuff. Great video indeed.
@nostalgiakarlk.f.73863 жыл бұрын
Yeah, come on Paul!
@NBOG7893 жыл бұрын
Sorry, I don't want to sound rude, but why most of Vietnamese have second (family) name - Nguyen?
@birhb63723 жыл бұрын
@@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 it means thank you in vietnamese lol
@nostalgiakarlk.f.73863 жыл бұрын
@@birhb6372 Yeah, I know LOL.
@limmykinh2 жыл бұрын
As a background, I am Filipino who grew up bilingual in English and Tagalog. I am conversational in Japanese and learning Hebrew and Bahasa Indonesian. My parents gave me a Vietnamese name (they used to work in a Vietnamese refugee camp) and they've been encouraging me to visit Vietnam and learn the language. I've been trying time and time again to learn Vietnamese but the biggest learning wall for me is the phonetics and the tones. All the other languages I know and am learning are not as tonal as Vietnamese. Learning the vocabulary is daunting and I can't even start on it since I don't even know how to distinguish the words.
@htkh Жыл бұрын
Wow your background is so diverse 😳
@gsmnguyen Жыл бұрын
A á à ả ã ạ ẫ ....b+a = ba father. or ô ố ồ ờ ổ. B+ ố = bố father
@minhhieudo2299 Жыл бұрын
xin chúc mừng bạn đã mất gốc..
@danhhaitrandan7824 Жыл бұрын
bạn sẽ học được tiếng Việt nếu bạn được thực hành nó với những người bản ngữ (Người Việt) ngôn ngữ Việt đúng là thật độc đáo, nó không phải thuộc ngữ hệ Môn khơ me như những người phương tây (pháp) đã xếp nó vào trong thời Pháp xâm lược Vietnam. rõ ràng Vietnamese là ngôn ngữ thuộc ngữ hệ riêng. được phong phú thêm bởi những từ mượn (Loan-words) từ những ngôn ngữ khác.
@RealLotto Жыл бұрын
Don't worry We Vietnamese don't know how to distinguish the words either. The best way is just to engage in conversation and try to gauge the meaning from the context, especially in case of speakers with a heavy accent. The fact that Vietnamese is an analytical language, but ultilize a Latin alphabelt with simplified spelling mean that lots and lots of homophones' meanings are commonly mixed up. It's not uncommon for us to look up dictionary for meanings of old poetry and proverbs lol.
@kangus_lmao3 жыл бұрын
trust me, Vietnamese is easy. Example : "đá" means rock, stone, ice and kick
@keit77423 жыл бұрын
@Dboat ... isn't that a counter example..
@duongtran6423 жыл бұрын
"đá" also means crack =)
@RickVietsub3 жыл бұрын
Con ngựa đá con ngựa đá! 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴
@hahuylong1523 жыл бұрын
It also depends on the communication situation
@fireandice34853 жыл бұрын
@@RickVietsub meaning: the horse kick a stone horse
@l_iz_lgndry01183 жыл бұрын
“Wanna come over?” “Sorry, I’m busy” “There’s a new langfocus vid-” “IM APPROACHING AT MACH 4 MOVE OUT OF THE WAY”
@abaddon21483 жыл бұрын
"watch yo jet bro watcH YO JE-"
@BobTheHatKing3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like something Jeremy Clarkson would say
@axyrnguyen17063 жыл бұрын
:D proto
@axyrnguyen17063 жыл бұрын
me a vietnamese watching a guy teach my own language
@l_iz_lgndry01183 жыл бұрын
Not as cringe as *insert joke here*
@miyarubakq96773 жыл бұрын
It's funny how me, a Vietnamese, who is currently studying English, now wants to study Vietnamese.
@chaunguyenphuc66423 жыл бұрын
:) it’s normal for every native speakers. You can master in a foreign language, more grammatical correct than most of the native speakers but to do the same with your mother tongue is another story. Most of the time, natives tend to overlook minor mistakes due to the tendency in real life usage without thinking deeply and carefully in most of the tricky contexts. I am also a Vietnamese but I cannot assure I use the correct word choice or grammar all the time, let alone every languages evolve through time, unless you are a linguist it’s hard to comprehend how old versions of Vietnamese used to be when talking with the elderly.
@thanhocel80583 жыл бұрын
Hai ông người Việt đúng ko
@thanhocel80583 жыл бұрын
Nói cái gì đó dễ hiểu tí đi
@chaunguyenphuc66423 жыл бұрын
@@thanhocel8058 cái tên nói lên tất cả rồi, mình đâu đổi tên đổi họ đâu. Thì bạn vẫn có thể dùng Google dịch, mình không nghĩ những comment trên là dùng từ quá cao siêu. Nhưng bạn hỏi thì mình cũng trả lời. Đại ý của mình là với mọi ngôn ngữ, người bản ngữ chưa chắc là người nói ngôn ngữ đó tốt nhất (trừ các nhà ngôn ngữ học, học giả) bởi thói quen sử dụng hằng ngày và tập quán của từng địa phương, cá nhân. Bạn học tiếng nước ngoài có thể không chuẩn phát âm nhưng ngữ pháp, văn phạm có khi lại chuẩn hơn họ. Với tiếng Việt cũng vậy, lúc nhỏ học từ ngữ ngữ pháp tập làm văn khí thế, phân tích cấu trúc câu bổ ngữ định ngữ, tu từ ẩn dụ hoán dụ vân vân, nhưng rất khó để ngay cả 1 người Việt nói chuẩn, bạn có thể dùng đúng từ đúng câu, còn phù hợp với từng hoàn cảnh, mục đích cụ thể lại là chuyện khác. Thường ngày cũng hiếm có ai đi bắt bẻ dù có nói sai, miễn sao hiểu ý là được.
@thanhocel80583 жыл бұрын
@@chaunguyenphuc6642 mình đùa tẹo thôi mà , làm gì căng vậy:))
@jcwasheregt2 жыл бұрын
I started casually studying Vietnamese a few years ago to impress my friends, however I lost all progress I gained when the pandemic hit and we couldn't meet up anymore. I do remember enjoying learning the word structure and realizing how much more comprehensive it is than english, but had quite a bit of challenge with tones other than the rising ones. Being a Spanish speaker trying to learn a tonal language is quite an experience, but I truly do want to learn Vietnamese eventually.
@mikoajbadzielewski33963 жыл бұрын
❤ from Poland to Vietnamese ppl One of the best national minorities Love Their food;)
@paulduongviet3 жыл бұрын
We love you too and we have watched Euro and could see your progress in the match! We’ll continue supporting you guys! Come on Poland!
@aseanfriends3 жыл бұрын
I tried to learn Polish many times and still failed to distinguish ą ę 😭
@piano_master_52463 жыл бұрын
very true, the Vietnamese are the best Asian immigrants :)
@nni93103 жыл бұрын
I know that there are Vietnamese in Czechia and Slovakia (immigrants during communism). Are there Vietnamese in Poland?
@aseanfriends3 жыл бұрын
@@nni9310 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6XXiYuff8-seLM I don’t know if there are many Vietnamese in Poland but I know this Vietnamese girl is a KZbinr in Poland. You can check it out. I guess she’s kinda known for some Polish people
@buithanhnghia91403 жыл бұрын
For those who want to learn Vietnamese, don’t need to be afraid of the pronunciation. No matter you speak nothern, southern, or you speak both of them at the same time, we all understand you.
@ngavuthu84453 жыл бұрын
yup
@someonerandom7043 жыл бұрын
basically just learn IPA and you're good
@veryverybisexual49633 жыл бұрын
Or try to.
@yooha29113 жыл бұрын
Everyone gangsta until they speak Central accent
@navie67453 жыл бұрын
@@yooha2911 lmao toi miền trung nè :)))
@Magyarosivatuvaluk3 жыл бұрын
Love 💗 Vietnam 🇻🇳 from Lebanon 🇱🇧! 🇱🇧 💝 🇻🇳
@bchow65043 жыл бұрын
Stay strong guys! Vietnam welcome you❤️💚
@Magyarosivatuvaluk3 жыл бұрын
@@bchow6504 Thank You 😊 Asian brothers and sisters forever ♾
@TheBebabob3 жыл бұрын
I love 🇱🇧 one of my close friends is Lebanese and my girlfriend is Iraqi. Used to play football with a lot of Arab friends, so i learned some arabic phrases 😅
@龘纛爨灪麤彠 Жыл бұрын
One of the very few KZbinrs who actually teaches you something USEFUL. The details, the research you are doing is insane. Thank you Langfocus 🙏
@tribaounidadedonstania Жыл бұрын
BRO- THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT WOULD TAKE TO WRITE YOUR USERNAME ON PAPER 😭😭
@VNExperience3 жыл бұрын
After moving to Saigon in 2015 I learned to speak Vietnamese with a southern accent. In found the [j] consonant sound softer sounding than the northern [z] sound (written "d"), but I can now appreciate the "proper" northern pronunciation, especially in poetry and music. :) Vietnamese is a beautiful language and really comes in handy if you want to understand the culture. Also, in Saigon knowing "Chạy xe kiểu gì vậy" is basically a necessity.
@nntvog3 жыл бұрын
Your comment give me a good laugh at the horror I experienced with the traffic in Saigon since I left Vietnam about 20 years ago and returned for a visit 10 years ago.
@VNExperience3 жыл бұрын
@@nntvog Horror is an appropriate word to describe Saigon traffic. I remember on my 2nd day in town jumping in on a scooter. My girlfriend wanted me to jump into the deep end right away. Think of it as a school of fish and you're alright. You get used to it amazingly quickly. Sadly, now because of Covid the streets are almost empty 😕
@ntkhag.n3 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo 😂😂😂 underated comment
@TuanKayTV3 жыл бұрын
Yes, sure.
@kimduong3623 жыл бұрын
Nothing can be truer than the last sentence lmfao bro
@colorfuk16883 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese: **Has tones to differientiate between words** Region dialects: "I'm bouta end this man's whole career"
@linhle82943 жыл бұрын
Understandable
@nhuanang3173 жыл бұрын
to be honest even Vietnamese got confuse every time they talk to some one with a different dialects. LoL
@mintaroum.90963 жыл бұрын
Underrate 😂😂👌👌
@nhanliu96953 жыл бұрын
Kinh people is one of Fityfourth ethics in Vietnam and each ethic have its distinctive culture, such as language speaking and writing script. Each part of Vietnam has its dialect words and have speaking into the difference tones that have referred in the clip. North Vietnamese use word : pig = con lợn, Peanut = đậu lạc, pineapple = trái dứa, ceramic bowl = cái bát, and ect. South Vietnamese use word : pig = con heo, peanut = đậu phụng, pineapple = trái thơm, ceramic bowl= cái chén or cái tô that is referred to the bigger bowl.
@ISAFSoldier3 жыл бұрын
Eeyyuuuup
@Glassandcandy3 жыл бұрын
I’m American and from the south, but the community I’m from has a very large Vietnamese population. It’s the second most popular language in that town. I had many Vietnamese friends when I was really young and I would go to their houses all the time to play. I ended up picking up some Vietnamese just from staying over there and playing all the time but I’ve long since forgotten it. Wish I hadn’t, it’s such a cool language. Maybe one day I’ll study it and see if I can pick it up again.
@doanlinh95253 жыл бұрын
That means you are living in California, right ? As i know, in Orange County, there are many Asian Americans here, include Vietnamese Americans
@leahozhantortune7713 жыл бұрын
@@doanlinh9525 He just said, he's from the South. California is in the geographical South, yes. But I think OP was referring to the cultural South. States like Texas, or Alabama, or Mississippi.
@greatwolf53723 жыл бұрын
@@doanlinh9525 Probably Texas/Louisiana. Lots of Vietnamese in the Gulf Coast
@eliseverheugen36893 жыл бұрын
There’s also a major community in New Orleans.
@phamdinhhoang19983 жыл бұрын
@oaktree_ if you said their restaurant are best in town, I can't imagine how you will react when you come to Vietnam
@jimtso98022 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Taiwan but my mother and grandmother were ethnic Chinese from Vietnam. I never spent the time to learn Vietnamese, but I heard a lot of it in my childhood. Vietnamese seems a straightforward language for most Chinese to pick up. All the consonants and tones sound clear to us (I know sometimes it can be confusing to the Western ears). Grammar is simple and straightforward. As you said, there is no form changes due to gender, plural, tense or conjugation *as in Chinese.
@3bs5013 жыл бұрын
I love how the whole Vietnamese community is here
@Langfocus3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad that native speakers find the video interesting!
@loremipsum9803 жыл бұрын
Well, from a young age, we have always been encouraged to be proud of our culture and language :v
@monnamonsta3 жыл бұрын
ikr ;)
@vnXun3 жыл бұрын
We have always been here, waiting for the opportunity
@h-01343 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese watches YT a lot so yeah. :D
@MrSzczotas3 жыл бұрын
I am from Poland, and I started learning Vietnamese in december last year, mainly because I want to go to Vietnam and be able to communicate with people. I already have the basics, and I don't find it as frustrating as other people say, but I have to say that I have a huge problems with remembering words because of how similar they sometimes are. Also the tones which add different meaning is something really hard to memorize. But after all, I really did find it really interesting and fun to learn. chuột túi is a kangaroo in Vietnamese, which translates to "mouse" "bag". I find it hilarious and it really sums up this language as language made out of "blocks" which you just glue together. If you speak northern dialect and want to give me some hints, let me know :D
@huynhho37933 жыл бұрын
What you have found is very interesting. I think your guessing is true for most of the cases. Btw, I don’t think “chuột túi” is a common word for kangaroo nowadays. To refer to this animal, I think most of people would prefer the original word, which is kangaroo (pronounced in Vietnamese way)
@thanhlenguyentran21313 жыл бұрын
more hilarious words for you: dolphin - cá heo - fish pig, whale - cá voi - fish elephant, giraffe - hươu cao cổ - deer high neck, penguin - chim cánh cụt - bird wing short :)))
3 жыл бұрын
@@huynhho3793 The Vietnamese way of Kangaroo is Kănguru which is actually borrowed exactly from French Kangourou
3 жыл бұрын
it's "wing" not "swing" but yeah "cụt" here means short. I'm so frustrated with memes on facebook translating that it's an amputated-wing bird
@parkerpeter58833 жыл бұрын
@@thanhlenguyentran2131 nhiều từ tiếng việt là từ ghép nên lúc dịch ra tiếng anh ms buồn cười :)))
@025_lucthanhuc23 жыл бұрын
As a native vietnamese (northern dialect), i can say that the differences between northern and southern dialect is quite similar to that of british english and american english (northern dialect sounds more "posh" and subtle whereas southern dialect is quite down to earth and may be easier for foreign people to learn) The central region dialect is way way harder than the two mentioned dialects. In places such as Nghe An or Ha Tinh, especially in the rural mountainous regions, native vietnamese may not even understand the accent. To put it in perspective, it is like a person in London trying to understand the most difficult Irish/Scottish dialects
@phucletran28603 жыл бұрын
Dont forget the Hue accent. Gosh i cant even make half the thing they say sometime.
@vothienbaochau3 жыл бұрын
ye i must admit the midland accent is like another different language, an old lady there once tried to communicate with me but its really hard (im in the south) to understand that i asked her to repeat what she said so many times that she became tired and never want to talk to me again since then 😆😆
@Don20063 жыл бұрын
@@vothienbaochau I don't understand why they can't just impersonate a Northern/Southern accent when they're trying to get a point across. Is it a matter of pride?
@phucletran28603 жыл бұрын
@@Don2006 they cant cause of habbit and parent’s influence, im a northerner who’ve grown up in the south since birthed, people still recognized my northern origin through habbit of speech and accent
@Don20063 жыл бұрын
@@phucletran2860 I guess it really is as simple as that. I've had only one experience with a Central Vietnamese speaker, and she was able to southernize her speech enough for me to understand. But I suppose most Americans wouldn't be able to impersonate even an Aussie accent, for example.
@robintarket68443 жыл бұрын
For me, the challenging part of learning Vietnamese is learning the pronunciation of the differently accented letters and replicating the sounds of a tonal language after having spoken English for all of my life and French for a portion of it. The order of words and the lack of conjugation makes it more straightforward though, I am so glad to not have to memorize conjugations for future tense, present tense, past tense, etc.
@thaikien30742 жыл бұрын
For me, there are more 30 accents all around of Vietnam, but just 4 - 5 accents is used by the most people. These are Hanoi accents( Standard of Northern accent), Hue accents ( Standard of North Central ), Danang accents ( maybe added Quang Nam accent - standard of South Central) , DakLak accent or Dalat accent ( standard of Central Highlands) and Saigon accent ( standard of Southeast and Waterways) . Unlike China, which has Mandarin, there are just some popular accents of language "Tieng Viet" because of it 's excelent epress in Written language by Latin alphabets, but not perfect one in Oral language .
@imie-nazwisko2 жыл бұрын
Hey random question Robin. Do you know anyone goes by the name of Tessa? Your profile pic remind me of someone I knew...
@user023782 жыл бұрын
dễ mà anh bạn
@xathien5729 ай бұрын
Đúng vậy lợi thế của tiếng Việt chúng tôi
@Bella-hj3pu3 жыл бұрын
Learning Vietnamese is all fun games until u hear the central accent
@uctu34693 жыл бұрын
What is the central accent?? :)
@xaphongthom62243 жыл бұрын
@@uctu3469 giọng miền Trung
@nguyenkha53223 жыл бұрын
@@uctu3469 Quỏng Nôm, Quảng ngữa, Xự Huệ
@AnhMai7123 жыл бұрын
@@nguyenkha5322 quạng trị, quạng bình, thanh hóa
@nguyenkha53223 жыл бұрын
@@AnhMai712 :)))) Ở đâu ra bé Mai z :p
@eds4873 жыл бұрын
As a Vietnamese person, I didn't realize how hard it is to learn Vietnamese before watching this video xD
@joyalice.tiktok2 жыл бұрын
mình cũng vậy, bắt tay cái
@LakadMatatag2702 Жыл бұрын
Có lần tôi đọc giáo trình dạy tiếng Việt trung cấp do người Nhật viết (có 1 tác giả là người VN), họ dùng các thuật ngữ mà mình chưa từng nghe chỉ có dân trong ngành mới biết như: tính ngữ, đại từ chỉ định, phương vị từ...:))
@ucchau173Ай бұрын
In vietnam we use different hán tự(漢字) word that different with madarin example: library in china is 圖書館in vietnam is thư viện(書院),bye in vietnam is tạm biệt (暫別),không mean zero and no is 空,student in university in china still called 學生in vietnam called 生員, teacher in vietnam is giáo viên (教員),hospital in vietnam called bệnh viện 病院 in china called 醫院,books in china is 書in vietnam is sách (策),thư(書)in vietnam is mail,thank in vietnam is cảm ơn(感恩)in china is 謝謝, accordance,proper,.. china is 合适 vietnam is thích hợp (适合),like in china is 贊vietnam is thích(适), dragon fruit in china is 火龍 in vietnam is thanh long(青龍),fruit in china is 水果 in vietnam is hoa quả(花果)teacher in university in vietnam is giảng viên(講員)china is still 老師... Alot different meaning hán tự(漢字) used every day by vietnam language and madarin,..
@vuurniacsquarewave50913 жыл бұрын
The tones are marked in writing. At a first glance I think that makes it A LOT less frustrating to learn.
@QueueTeePies3 жыл бұрын
It might be hard to pronounce, but very easy to read.
@matti_ngb3 жыл бұрын
It's so convenient to be able to read stuff. In a shop, on a menu, when asking for directions, or it's meaning. You may not know but at least you have the ability to ask.
@rubiks63 жыл бұрын
Until you discover that the spoken tones don't always match the written tones. (Oh, nooooo!)
@alessbritish2283 жыл бұрын
@@rubiks6 Why not?
@jeremyle24833 жыл бұрын
@@alessbritish228 different accents
@Hieu0k693 жыл бұрын
Tale of Kiều is the nightmare for most secondary and highschool students in Vietnam don't try to read it unless you want to lose your passion
@Langfocus3 жыл бұрын
High school students everywhere can relate to your frustration. :) At my school it was Shakespeare.
@someonerandom7043 жыл бұрын
@@Langfocus ya leíste el Don Quijote? Todos mis amigos hispanohablantes odian eso jaja
@LeonidasArg20213 жыл бұрын
@@someonerandom704 nunca leímos el Quijote en la escuela XD sólo literatura argentina
@Vandarte_translator3 жыл бұрын
@@someonerandom704 El Quijote es un libro demasiado largo. Siento que me aburriría con leer un solo capítulo.
@khoinguyenphamtrong46373 жыл бұрын
@@someonerandom704 We do have Don Quijote in high school's literature tho
@CupOfKai3 жыл бұрын
I've been learning Vietnamese for almost 2 years, there's times where I can sit down with a local (in HCMC) and have a full conversation for 20-30 minutes and theres other times where we barely get past the first few sentences. It really seems to be about training your ear with as many different dialects as possible. If I ever understand a 60 year old grab driver I'll know im fluent.
@haphuongle29203 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, we Vietnamese still find it hard to understand different dialects. Moreover, native as I am, I still find it hard to identify words in Vietnamese songs and drama, especially the traditional ones with lots of vocal manipulation for artistic and emotional emphasis. Similar to your example about the 60-year-old grab driver, after 2 college courses taught by a respectable 70-year-old-English-speaking-native-French lecturer, my English is on a different level. English with French pronunciation and intonations. It sounded like melodies but takes time to comprehend. The English spoken by my native Vietnamese lecturer in French pronunciation and intonations was both beautiful and easy to understand.
@user023782 жыл бұрын
first step to learn Vietnamese: learn "a" letter: a à á ả ã ạ ă ằ ắ ẳ ẵ ặ â ầ ấ ẩ ẫ ậ second step: learn "b" letter: b wow there are too much different
@Secret_Moon2 жыл бұрын
To tell the truth, it's pretty much the same about Engligh for us Vietnamese (and I assume for other foreign learners of English as well). My cousin once invited me for a dinner with a British friend. In that dinner, even though we talked while eating and I just casually listened, I pretty much could understand every word that British guy said. But when I met my cousin's boss, who is also British, I couldn't understand a single word he said lol.
@NuisanceMan2 жыл бұрын
A "60 year old grab driver"? Sounds like a sexual assault case in the making...
@asdfjkl74302 жыл бұрын
Color-coding the background of the words helps so much.
@Langfocus2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! I started doing that because it helps ME, but it has become part of my video style.
@trien303 жыл бұрын
Hi, Paul. Thank you for the new video. My wife, who is from southern Vietnam, can never understand when someone speaks in the Central Vietnamese dialect, centered around Hue. The Hanoi dialect is easier because that's taught in all schools in Vietnam. Southern Vietnamese is easier to listen to if you have friends from southern Vietnam or if the speaker is also from the south, like my wife and I. Northern Vietnamese speakers might not understand when a person from Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City speaks but can grasp up to 80% of what's being said, especially if they have friends from southern Vietnam or if they themselves frequent southern Vietnam. Most people who teach Vietnamese online are from Hanoi, but rarely, a few are from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. My father and 3 aunts were born in Haiphong, in Northern Vietnam. I have an aunt who still speaks Vietnamese with a Northern accent despite living in Ho Chi Minh City for over 70 years. She is also the only person who can still speak Hokkien in our family, too. Notes to Paul: 1. Ho Chi Minh was the name of the communist leader, Ho Chi Minh City is the part of southern Vietnam. 2. In the 1,000 years of Chinese rule, Vietnam never officially used Simplified Chinese characters like what Paul has shown. Some simplifications were used between family members, friends, or were rarely seen but weren't officially part of the Simplified Chinese character set created as standard in China in the 1950s. Those Vietnamese loanwords used as examples by Paul should all be either in Traditional Chinese or Chữ Nôm or maybe an admixture called Hán-Nôm.
@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai3 жыл бұрын
You provide many great points but a few are a bit off. There are many Vietnamese learning resources which teach the Southern accent. My British friend uses them. Generally speaking, a Northerner can understand a Southerner just fine without needing to have Southern friends and vice versa. Like you said, it’s easier to understand Hanoian dialect due to the state media heavily favoring it. However, many southern films and shows are also popular in the North and hence, we are exposed to each other’s accents. It’s similar to how lots of Americans are exposed to British TV and vice versa. Both sides of the pond can understand what the other side is saying. And I can say that a Northerner and a Southerner can understand 95% what the other party is saying when conversing. 5% is confusion over local slang words and colloquial expressions. I have distant paternal relatives who speak with Hải Dương dialect and when I encountered them years ago, I had no trouble conversing despite meeting them for the first time. My maternal grandpa speaks with Northern accent (because his family is originally from Hanoi) but he mostly grew up in Central Highlands. And I speak with a Central Highlander dialect which, like Transatlantic English, can be understood by people from all regions. The “Central” accent people refer to are Huế dialect (both urban and rural) and Central Coastal dialects whose intonation are just too different.
@kimngandiem64763 жыл бұрын
Many Viet dubbed movies use Southern artists -> Northern and other people from other region also get used to Southern Accent from media. The only confusing accent is the Central ones. There’re very different in tones and words in each Central region due to isolated geography, and perhaps minority language.. etc
@kienfudge36383 жыл бұрын
For me as a Vietnamese-Canadian living in Vietnam, Vietnamese is pretty easy to understand all over the country. We don’t consider the north, southern, and central Vietnamese variants as dialects, but rather as just accents. Vietnamese people also know the difference in vocabulary and can completely understand each other… like when a northern person uses a word that isn’t used in the south, the southern person can still totally understand the northern person. Central Vietnamese is a bit strange but is still completely intelligible for northern and southern Vietnamese.
@laiviet31073 жыл бұрын
Language boundaries are vague so arguments on whether it is one thing or three things do not come to an end. Enjoy it!
@ghostland8646 Жыл бұрын
all fun and games until you go to china and hear their dialect. it’s like being deaf and pretend to understand.
@josephnguyen45483 жыл бұрын
My heart was literally screaming "YESSSSS!" inside my chest when I saw this thumbnail. I have been watching this channel for years and hoping that one day a video about Vietnamese will come out in my lifetime. It came much earlier than I expected. Thank you so much Paul!
@ruatapachuau1822 жыл бұрын
As a Mizo from North East India, I like Vietnamese cultures and traditions and I always wanted to know more about Vietnamese. 😅😅. My friend once had a DNA test and also has Vietnamese ancestry and not only him but many Zo people had also done it now and all their results are quite similar. That is why I am curious about Vietnam😅😅.
@NTNT.062 жыл бұрын
Don't be afraid when your Vietnamese is bad, the Vietnamese will correct you. Hope one day you will come to Vietnam.
@lebaolinh172 Жыл бұрын
First time I heard of this. Are the Mizo people of Vietnamese origin? You make me curious, I have seen pictures of Mizo people indeed their faces have some similarities with Vietnamese people (although Mizo people have darker skin)
@lebaolinh172 Жыл бұрын
Where did the Mizo people think they were of Vietnamese origin?
@stephaniefrost97203 жыл бұрын
As a not-viet person but with a decent amount of vietnamese friends, I think the language sounds super super cute! it seems really challenging to learn, but i have learned some basic phrases. What is really confusing is how to pronounce someone's last name or types of food/drink since there are some pronunciation differences (it's how i practice with friends). I'd love to try to full on learn it one day!
@KhoaNguyen963 жыл бұрын
Having Vietnamese friends is the most efficient way to learn pronounce, speaking and listening. I always recommend people to do that, and I have a little advice for you, you should learn speaking and listening in ONE dialect at a time. Wish you the best of luck.
@stephaniefrost97203 жыл бұрын
@@KhoaNguyen96 For sure! Most of my friends speak the southern dialect so that's what i usually go with :) I also watch dramas here and there to get used to people's voice inflections and trying to hear the different tones
@DarkMagicianMan203 жыл бұрын
Last name are fairy easy if you can speak the tone, there are alot of last name in Vietnam, but the most common are Nguyễn. Food and drinks are depend on who you speaking to, because south and north have different noun for them. Wish you good luck.
@owO-ld5gw3 жыл бұрын
@@stephaniefrost9720 Ừ ~ Ứ thank...
@ansnyder3 жыл бұрын
The beauty of Vietnamese is that you don't need to rely on context to let someone understand something.
@psammiad3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the relationship of Vietnamese to Chinese is similar to the relationship of English to French. Most English technical and prestige words come from French.
@irgendsoeineziege10583 жыл бұрын
Yes but Chinese and Vietnamese aren't related
@donaldlee82493 жыл бұрын
More the relation between Latin and other modern European languages. Up until last century, East Asians could communicate with people speaking different languages using purely the written form of their native language (like how Kim Il-sung and Ho Chi Minh once did), which are basically slight modifications of classical Chinese. Chinese is the de facto lingua franca of this region like how Latin used to be in Europe.
@nehcooahnait78273 жыл бұрын
More like Finish/Hungarian to some Hellenic or Latin languages: there are loans words but not related. Or perhaps French to Moroccan Arabic
@anaghshetty3 жыл бұрын
@@icancu9680 hmm,they are part of indo-european languages, but they belong to different groups(Germanic and Romance respectively)
@jopeteus3 жыл бұрын
And how Swedish and Russian are to Finnish
@theosib3 жыл бұрын
I minored in linguistics in grad school and at least dabbled with a lot of languages. Vietnamese phonology is especially challenging for me. Absolutely everything sounds nasalized, and all the consonants sound completely indistinct to me. When listening to Vietnamese with a transcript, I often cannot associate what I’m hearing with the letters on the page. I don’t have this much trouble with any other language. Not even Mandarin.
@lestry78783 жыл бұрын
Wow, I thought I was the only one haha. I watched a video from Easy Vietnamese, where people answer questions on the street and there's a transcript and I had trouble matching the sound with the written text. I have lots of experience with all sorts of languages, bit Vietnamese definitely challenged me. They connect words very fluidly, often it sounds like a bunch of nasalized vowels thrown together. I swear it's worse than Danish hahaha
@dud7193 жыл бұрын
Which accent did you learn from because i think the writing system is more related to the north accent of vietnam.
@peterfireflylund3 жыл бұрын
It also sounds like a tape being played backwards half the time.
@nofood13 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese is the hardest language I've ever tried learniing(still learning), especially the listening comprehension!!!
3 жыл бұрын
Technically, all consonants are different, but in practice, we usually have personal preference on how a sound should be pronounced. For example: xuất sắc is usually contains 2 similar /s/ in any dialects, and it differs person to person. It would be hard for you to hear a conversation, but as any language, you usually guess the word by the context more than the sound itself.
@Cachoeira1986 Жыл бұрын
Langfocus&community, I'm speaking several languages and am learning vietnamese now cause I will live in the south of Vietnam for several months. I focus of course on the outhern dialect and try to get pronunciation right. It's all very possible with consistancy and focus. Your video provides us with a perfect introduction to the vietnamese language.
@tapinlu3 жыл бұрын
There are so many Chinese origin words that Vietnamese people probably don't even think of them as loan words.
@legendarywings81203 жыл бұрын
There are a lot. Actually words like: ghế, bàn, ông, dì, bà, cầu vồng and so on are actually Chinese origin
@deyesed3 жыл бұрын
As a native Chinese speaker it's cool to recognize the roots.
@Hideyoshi19913 жыл бұрын
one I immediately recognized was ca sĩ which sounds really similar to 歌手 which is pronounced as kashu in japanese
@ronaldoseven48653 жыл бұрын
Because Japanese have borrowed many Sino words into Japanese; which is called Sino-Japanese vocabularies meaning Japanese words from Chinese roots. Example: Ramen (noodle) comes from Chinese origin- Lamian.
@legendarywings81203 жыл бұрын
@@Hideyoshi1991 ah no, 歌手 in Sino-Vietnamese is " Ca thủ ", but Vietnamese people use Ca sĩ 歌士 instead to refer singer
@PoopaPapaPalpatine3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Vietnamese-American; first-generation born from immigrant parents, Vietnamese was only ever spoken in the house until I had to start school and had to learn English (near English "English" as my ESL teacher was a remnant from WWII). My Vietnamese became really poor during those school years and only now in my 30's has it picked back up to a fair level. I can carry conversation, no problem, but don't ask me to do arithmetic out-loud. I don't know if this is the case for many others but it was a very slow and often frustrating process to re-learn a native tongue I near forgot, but I did it to keep some heritage and culture. It's gotten a whole lot better after I visited Viet Nam for a few months and there, despite how poor my Vietnamese is in comparison to the native population, I could speak and understand most of the dialects from the North and Central, though the Central dialect is a lot harder for me to understand fully. My family originates from the North but moved South so we speak with an odd mixed bag of dialects of the two. Compounded with my history growing up in the West, I can tell you it wasn't always a pleasant experience my stay back in the "Home Country." It was fun and a certainly an experience, but often frustrating and alienating as people back in the "Home Country" looked at me like an oddity and only tolerated me as much as any foreign tourist, and it was an opposite but equal experience growing up in the States, having gone to school not even recognizing my "Western Name" in school when called on, only once growing out of that, there being a relatively small community of Asians where we live, not being able to mix with them as I had to change to more Western behaviors to fit in. TL;DR - It sucked growing up.
@khoinguyenphamtrong46373 жыл бұрын
may the fatherland spirit bless you ;) From Hanoi with love
@tanphan18483 жыл бұрын
Got one Indonesian friend who seems to be in a somewhat similar situation as you. Born and raised in the US til a certain age, lived in japan a few years, went back to Indo a few years, and ended up in Vietnam for Uni. He got a wild traveling history. He's bilingual, 100% American English but his Bahasa suffered a tiny bit, still fluent but with a slightly off accent. Sometimes he got an identitity crisis, but he blends in very well wherever he goes. He got lots of international friends and also from his own country. Gotta admit i haven't met many people like him, such high adaptability level.
@HelloOnepiece3 жыл бұрын
We are the mixed generation, never truly belonging to either of our homes, but also able to experience both, curse and a blessing at the same time. But I can assure, most vietnamese wont be able to do arithmetic out loud past highschool (for different reasons though). in my experience american-vietnamese (and american-asians) in general had a harder time retaining their original culture, including language, compared to their european counterparts
@afnypoo3 жыл бұрын
I'm exactly the same, also in 30's, but grew up in australia
@aragog43963 жыл бұрын
He has a deeper understanding about the vietnamese language than i do. I've been speaking vietnamese for years and there are still many details that i never knew. Thanks for the information 'bout my own mother tongue. Keep up the good work!
@tranthanhtungcod2 жыл бұрын
yes, you and I are language users but he is a language analytist
@LongNguyen-kq5ou5 ай бұрын
Đó gọi là ngôn ngữ học,còn mình là dân thường thôi chỉ biết nói biết viết.
@hijohnmark Жыл бұрын
I love your content!! This is a fantastic overview of the Vietnamese language. The only thing I would add is that Vietnamese speakers will usually simplify and cut down on unnecessary words. For instance, they don't typically use a time particle (đã, sẽ, đang) when the time can be inferred by the context. "Ngày mai em đi làm" = "Tomorrow I'll go to work." "Ngày mai em sẽ đi làm" sounds redundant so it's not functionally or grammatically necessary-my teacher would always correct me when I said things like this :D Alternatively, if there's enough context in the conversation, a phrase like this is commonly shortened to "Mai đi làm" (literally "[abbreviated] Tomorrow go work"). So efficient!
@duynguyenminh128910 ай бұрын
I think it is because Vietnamese has no tense that indicates time (future, past, present), so we have to add words that indicate time (mai, hôm qua, mốt).
@pualamnusantara79033 жыл бұрын
5:52 Me : Ma ma ma ma ma ma.... A random Vietnamese : *"What? But The Mom's ghost's tomb is a rice seedling horse?????????"*
@cuteasiantraveling3 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@muctrun9me77683 жыл бұрын
"Cái gì? MÀ con MA dưới MẢ của MÁ là MẠ trồng MÃ" but it is meaningless
@doanlinh95253 жыл бұрын
it’s meaningless, man
@do_cheap3 жыл бұрын
Jejejejeje
@lolmao0-03 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@skipperkongen2 жыл бұрын
My wife, called Hồng and who loves to sing, was very pleased by the examples of "Hồng thông minh" (Hồng is smart) and "Hồng là ca sĩ" (Hồng is a singer). We came to your video after a discussion where I, having studied Japanese, claimed that much of Vietnamese is mutually intelligible with both Chinese and Japanese, e.g. words like big (dai) and sea (hải vs. kai in on-yomi). Your video illustrated that cases of mutual intelligibility are more likely due to loan-words from Chinese to Vietnamese and Japanese, rather than the languages being closely relatived in the language family tree (which was my uninformed claim).
@NamPhung902 жыл бұрын
Hải is a loanword from chinese. Pure vietnamese word for Hải is Biển.
@ngochong75712 жыл бұрын
Wow
@ryoukaip2 жыл бұрын
@@NamPhung90 its called "âm Nôm", Sino-Vietnamese words are called "âm Hán - Việt"
@NamPhung902 жыл бұрын
@@ryoukaip still a loanword from our ancestor. Just too old that they get much more modification than French and English loanword.
@P_O_T_A_T_O-cool10292 жыл бұрын
😂 So your Vietnamese? I am to! Xin chào mn
@kevinta13943 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the vietnamese word "ốp la" ="oeuf plat" (in French) ="flat egg" (in English) = "fried egg" I'm French with Chinese origins who grew up in Vietnam, but I still fail to speak the vietnamese language properly haha >_< The pronunciation is difficult~
@Kinrinjin3 жыл бұрын
fun fact lol
@sophiachou22723 жыл бұрын
why flat egg would be equal to fried egg though?
@kevinta13943 жыл бұрын
@@sophiachou2272 I guess it's because the egg is flat when it's being fried~
@nekomarru43333 жыл бұрын
vietnamese pronunciation is easy once to get use to it!
@Braslou3 жыл бұрын
It's oeuf au plat and plat means dish, or plate
@justjinny88 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video, I'm going through the duolingo vietnamese course now and this video explains a lot of the confusion I had regarding the counting words and other things. Thanks!
@nhan1710 Жыл бұрын
Vietnamese is not difficult, Vietnamese even has no grammar
@rhettschleehauf43453 жыл бұрын
As an American living in Da Nang and studying Vietnamese for 9 years I’ve learned to communicate with the locals in Da Nang. I can understand southern dialect easier than the northern dialect just because I learned from a local. But I have to strain myself when speaking some of the rural people from Quang Nam Quang Tri- but everytime I go to Hue I am baffled 😂 😂 turns out that Hue in particular is kind of “mocked” by speakers of all three dialects as the most difficult to understand because it is so different and they speak especially fast. My wife is a flight attendant for Vietnam air and she said that unless a Hue native can imitate the Northern or Southern dialect they won’t be hired because it is that markedly different and they tend to speak much faster. Another linguist friend said Hue Vietnamese is like Dominican Republic Spanish with north Vietnamese being Castilian Spanish and southern Vietnamese being Mexican Spanish
@trankt541552 жыл бұрын
Hue Vietnamese is like Jive English and Southern Vietnamese is like North American English.
@BỌNDOGVTCVÀCROSSFIREĂNCUWTS2 жыл бұрын
Đúng nè. Tiếng Việt ở Huế có nhiều từ ngữ riêng biệt và chất giọng rất nặng, khó nghe
@sgcl106582 жыл бұрын
Yes, Hue dialect has many different words that not a lot Vietnamese people know. But Quang Ngai dialect is the hardest dialect to understand even to Vietnamese.
@Balam_Gordoa2 жыл бұрын
As Mexican, that analogy told me everything I need to know to understand how it works. 😂
@user-jl2kk8ps9i2 жыл бұрын
It sounds like the Vietnamese version of Scottish 😂
@hongkongintheworld3 жыл бұрын
I have been waiting for this so long!! Mình chờ clip này lâu rồi!!
@gepe71763 жыл бұрын
好鍾意你d片!
@hongkongintheworld3 жыл бұрын
@@gepe7176 竟然喺度撞到觀眾😆多謝收睇😉
@lukejayfrost8253 жыл бұрын
the tone of Northern Vietnamese and Southern Vietnamese just like American and British
@tanxbro1133 жыл бұрын
Yse
@pxmnii3 жыл бұрын
Lol, yes
@ongnguyentien71133 жыл бұрын
And the tone of Northern Vietnamese and Central Vietnamese is like between Hannover German vs Bavarian German.
@pralineys3 жыл бұрын
And Huế accent is like Aussie English :))
@Jade-vi1zs3 жыл бұрын
True
@Pilote782 жыл бұрын
Thank you dude for your video, your knowledge about vietnamese is quite impressive, hello from a french vietnamese
@ionladopoulos91313 жыл бұрын
As a Mandarin learner, I got shocked by the fact that Vietnamese has so many in grammar and syntax with Mandarin. I even got a few Chinese loanwords, which are a lot. A similar situation is about Korean and Japanese, as we 've been so thoroughly taught here in Langfocus...😂 Thank you Mr Paul for all your great and always professional work. I was waiting this video for a long time and I am very happy to be able to learn as well as about Vietnamese in your channel. Love and admitation from Greece!!
@fuanasantuary12773 жыл бұрын
You'd be surprise that Chinese has many similar words to Greek.
@UpdateMonsterLegends3 жыл бұрын
yep. we borrow a lot from China not gonna lie. that is why its pretty easy for vietnamese to learn mandarin.
@kdnguyen14443 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese grammar seems similar to Classical Chinese than Mandarin. Vietnamese is more analytical than Mandarin and more monosyllabic.
@Veepee923 жыл бұрын
@@Tom57744 Not really. Middle Chinese had something called checked consonants: wovel-final stops (p, t, k). Both Cantonese and Mandarin developed out of Middle Chinese, but Mandarin lost the checked consonants whereas Cantonese retained them. Vietnamese also has always had checked consonants so the Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (which accounts to more than 50 % of the entire Vietnamese lexicon) is much closer to Cantonese than it is to Mandarin. However, the tone and sound change patterns are rather regular and can be quite easily learnt to facilitate learning between languages.
@rickr94353 жыл бұрын
@@fuanasantuary1277 wait, what? really? i need some examples
@josephhallify3 жыл бұрын
As a Cantonese speaker, it’s pretty easy to learn Vietnamese’s tone and the words from Chinese.
@thatson92183 жыл бұрын
South vietnam accent sounds like cantonese. North vietnam accent sounds like beijing (madarin).
@aprille09043 жыл бұрын
The struggle is real ^^ you guys have 9 tones right?
@karitete523 жыл бұрын
Well, coz “we” shared long history together, then lots of Viets are speaking Cantonese :)) why? Ask Mandarin speakers.
@hagongda1233 жыл бұрын
越南人又来冒充广东人?
@digmyvids3 жыл бұрын
@@thatson9218 I agree the southern accent has always sounded like Cantonese, but the northern accent has always reminded me of Lao or Thai (i grew up speaking Southern Viet, and heard Lao and Thai being spoken in my household on a daily basis since my mom's family is from Laos and Thailand). Eventually I actually ended up learning mandarin myself, and can say now that of all of these languages, mandarin is the most different for sure.
@LucielStarz1233 жыл бұрын
This guy : *mentioned Vietnamese in a well-explained and structured video* The Trees : “You have summoned us”
@o....o62333 жыл бұрын
So you has summon me:)))
@binhanjustbinhan91413 жыл бұрын
Ayo, cây ko biết nói.
@funi20443 жыл бұрын
@@binhanjustbinhan9141 ám chỉ lính du kích việt nam đó bạn
@binhanjustbinhan91413 жыл бұрын
@@funi2044 Ai chả biết.
@funkykunx25443 жыл бұрын
Hello, I'm from Hanoi :)
@rudolfzaugg102618 күн бұрын
Hay qua! I studied Vietnamese for two and a half years to advanced level in Ha Noi during the 90ties. I must say that this an outstanding good explanation of the main points of the Vietnamese language!
@edim1083 жыл бұрын
This was a very interesting video. There is quite a large Vietnamese minority in Poland, especially in Warsaw where they are the third largest ethnic group after Poles and Ukrainians. They have their own schools, shops, cultural events and even printed newspaper. Oh, and of course the food! My life was empty before discovering Pho. It's such a simple dish, but beauty is often found in the simple things :) I'd love to visit Vietnam one day. If the pictures are anything to go by, I could spend MONTHS there :D
@vincentprime7403 жыл бұрын
if you have the time, a trip throughout the country would be perfect. there are thousands of local specialty food in every province and city
@ieptranphuc71673 жыл бұрын
If you really do it. Remember. Try all local dishes, but don't try at the restaurant. Go into the lane, market areas. That is truly CUISINE.
@normalname36233 жыл бұрын
It's a simple dish until we try to make it .*First time cook Pho flashback*
@thanhhathanhha20813 жыл бұрын
@@normalname3623 AEUF DON’T GIVE ME THE MEMORIES I CAN ONLY EAT PHỞ NOT MAKING IT AAAAAAA
@rociopaoloni50803 жыл бұрын
I find the tonal differences less daunting knowing now the grammar is very straightforward. Learning becomes more a matter of direct exposure to people speaking, like in videos por example, an less a matter of sitting through written exercises to reinforce cases, conjugations, etc. Like you, it's refreshing and maybe even more accommodating to people who may have trouble studying in a more traditional, mostly arm-chair oriented way.
@buianh12573 жыл бұрын
In Vietnam, people mostly listen to northern and southern accents in the media. (not often hear the central accent, the central region artists often change their accent according to the place they work Hanoi or Saigon) The northern accent dominates in political programs, news , TV series, singing (Southern singers often use northern accent when singing) and southern accent dominate in entertainment, reality shows, movies, comedies. (there are many comedians and stand-up comedians in the south)
@vincentprime7403 жыл бұрын
central accents are just too varied. even from different district they could speak differently
@namle.mcmxciv3 жыл бұрын
@@vincentprime740 not only between 2 districts but also in 2 wards or even you and your neighbor. Because, tones of VNese are able to be varied on each individual.
@nhathoangnguyen39733 жыл бұрын
Northerners tried to Sinicize the rest of the regions by means of media
@SangNguyen13 жыл бұрын
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@hungtheheroluu2 жыл бұрын
As a Vietnamese originally from Saigon (Sài Gòn), I find this video really helpful for those learning or re-learning Vietnamese. My ability to speak my native language is pretty ok, although I feel like I'm in elementary school and can only engage in casual conversations with my family and sometimes other Vietnamese speakers. I use the Southern Vietnamese dialect/accent, but I pronounce the "s" and "x" sounds as "s", and "v" as "v". Overall, I wish to thank you, Langfocus, for teaching others about my native language, including its history, phonology, grammar, and dialects. Chúc các bạnh học tiếng Việt vui vẻ! Happy learning Vietnamese everyone!
@alpacamale29092 жыл бұрын
is it possible to read your language using just the classic alphabet from a to z without diacritics or other marks?
@XuyenNguyen-jb9sj Жыл бұрын
@@alpacamale2909 yes, but it could cause misunderstanding if the context is unclear. We have jokes regarding this too. For example, 'chong thi coi ao, vo thi coi quan' can be read 'chồng thì coi ao, vợ thì coi quán,' meaning 'the husband takes care of the fishpond, while the wife manages the store.' It could also be read 'chồng thì cởi áo, vợ thì cởi quần,' meaning, 'the husband is taking off his shirt, while the wife is taking off her pants,' as in, they're about to have sex.
@vothienbaochau3 жыл бұрын
as a linguistics student, i have to claim that Vietnamese is like a game to me, fun but also very challenging. Another thing i love about this language is the grammatical order is logical, you mention the main point of your sentence first and then add details to specify it, it becomes easy to say what you think at the time in a chronological order. Also if you change the words order, the meaning will change too (like i bit the dog vs the dog bit me). its much easier than thinking of the right cases and verbs order in a whatever-order-the-other-words-could-be sentence like German. it makes the language so hard to learn when you have to wait to the end to know the main action of a sentence.
@John_Weiss3 жыл бұрын
Oh, German _does_ have a logical ordering to it … it's just not the order we use in English. And not just, "verbs-at-the-end in dependent clauses." "Time" "Location" "Manner" - the order of these 3 are different in German. In English, Col. Mustard was murdered with the candelabra in the parlor at 20 past midnight - Manner-Location-Time. In German, however, it's Time-Manner-Place. „Ich reise im Frühling mit dem Zug nach Berlin.“ == I'm traveling in the spring by train to Berlin. (Although, like English, you can break this order to emphasize something.) Lastly, _formal German_ does something weird in terms of word order. _But this doesn't happen in normal day-to-day speech,_ because it's far too unwieldy! In academic German, newspapers, formal writing and (to a degree) news broadcasts, you can pick up _an entire dependent clause_ and _use it as an adjective._ Just drop it in front of the noun like any other adjective! You can do this with 1, 2, 5 whole different clauses, just strung together between the word "the" and the noun. (News broadcasts point ever do 1 adjectival clause per noun, and only short ones. It's too big a cognitive load for anything more than that.) It is considered both a sign of intelligence and elegance. And it's utterly impenetrable to non-native speakers. This is _the exact opposite_ of what is drilled into the heads of us Americans in school: “Make your sentences _as short as possible_ to get the point across, but no shorter. Prefer many short sentences to one long one with lots of dependent clauses.” That's what makes written German seem like its word order is complete chairs, especially to Americans. BTW: this form of writing was _especially popular_ among 19th Century German academics, especially philosophers. Which is why Kant is so notoriously difficult to read.
@BlitzWalkthrough3 жыл бұрын
To each their own, I guess :) I like languages with heavy inflection like Russian because you can almost use any word order you want and speak more flexibly.
@simonsaysism3 жыл бұрын
I've been dabbling in Dutch for a long time, and even though Duolingo starts teaching you that word order stuff quite early on, it's still the main thing that trips me up in constructing a sentence. The straightforwardness of Vietnamese grammar is very attractive to me!
@jeff__w3 жыл бұрын
@@John_Weiss “…you can pick up an entire dependent clause and use it as an adjective.” That’s standard in Cantonese and Korean. (Relative clauses _are_ adjectival in nature so it actually makes logical sense.)
@kdnguyen14443 жыл бұрын
Vietnamese grammar is too loose. It’s not good for a language to do science and philosophy. Straightforwardness is an euphemism. I would call it “disorderedness”.
@duongthihop22192 жыл бұрын
I feel very touched when you know so many things about my country. I hope Vietnam ends the Covid-19 pandemic soon so that you can come and learn about Vietnam's culture, cuisine, and national identity.
@Langfocus2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I hope so too. 🙂 I’ve been there once, but only for a week.
@user023782 жыл бұрын
when covid end: amẻican: oh ươ ưe ảe die china: omg me tô vietnam: ảo thật đấy
@pdsckf Жыл бұрын
Pandemic is done, go now
@Hello-mp3wr3 жыл бұрын
Hi Langfocus, I’m a Vietnamesesecondary student. I really like your videos. They are so quality and detail. The fact that I’ve never thought that you will care about Vietnam, but, you did it. So I thanks for your perfectly video. I’m very thankful because you let everyone know about Vietnamese. Thanks very much!
@boisangngo4213 Жыл бұрын
As a Vietnamese, I have little difficulty communicating with people from the Northern dialect (Southern dialect here). Truth is, if you watch enough TV programmes in the wanted dialect you can imitate their tone pretty well, although it can end up being a little awkward when you're not really used to it. However, I guess the Central dialect remains the most mysterious one. If the speaker speaks slow enough you can hear most of what they say, but if they speak too fast then it's hard to understand what they're saying. Thank you for sharing our language with the world!
@alexhoangho Жыл бұрын
My wife from Central Vietnam (Hue) but she spoke southern (thank god), to this day (20+ years) I still have difficulty understanding her parents pronunciation.
@trongnguyenuc812411 ай бұрын
Việt nam có nhiều nơi phát âm khác nhau có khi chính người việt còn nghe mấy lần mới hiểu được đang nói gì
@gaudien90963 жыл бұрын
I have to say I'm very impressed with the accuracy, thoroughness, and helpful examples! I'm Vietnamese, and I came to the States after completing 2nd grade in VN, so I retained a bit of the language. I've developed it further through usage with my parents, but not to any level of sophistication. This video really helped answer a lot of the aspects of Vietnamese grammar that I tried to equate to English grammar that have no equivalent, e.g. verb tense, tones (TIL learned the difference in pronunciation between ? and ~ because I've only ever heard their usage from the central and southern dialects), classifiers, etc. Thank you for the video. Really impressive and very well put together!
@garfieldnate3 жыл бұрын
I studied it in college and it was a lot of fun! The difficulty with this language is definitely front-loaded in the pronunciation aspect. One interesting aspect you didn't mention is the double articulation for "k" and "ng": you end up pronouncing a "p" or "m" at the same time, or else just rounding your lips. English/Vietnamese also have the lenis/fortis contrast backwards for t/p/k and th/ph/kh: the latter must be pronounced more lightly than the former, which is very unnatural coming from English. Oh, and of course the ingressive d/b/g are fun to pronounce but weird enough to make students feel shy about pronouncing them correctly. I was used to tones already from studying Chinese, but they are really vexing for a lot of students. A guy in my class would often speak in creaky voice, and that type of phonation just would not work at all when trying to pronounce Vietnamese for the teacher. I speak Japanese, as well, and it was interesting to see all of the southern Chinese-based cognates (gia đình = katei, điện thoại = denwa, ngôn ngữ học = gengogaku, etc.). Interestingly, the pronunciation our teacher used was an artificial standard one which contrasted x and s, d/z and r, tr and ch, and d/z and v. That r was also a very pretty sound, like the lightly tapped r of an Irish person.
@ThangNguyen-hu7us2 жыл бұрын
:)
@NuisanceMan2 жыл бұрын
"The ingressive d/b/g"? Does it grow into your voicebox like a toenail?
@ILuvMaths3 жыл бұрын
This was such a nice overview of the vietnamese language. It's really impressive how much information you managed to give in 15 minutes, from history to phonetics to grammar, all explained in a very accessible way. As a Vietnamese, I can vouch for all the information in this video. Except maybe the part saying that northern accent is higher pitch and southern is lower - I always felt like southern is higher pitch, or maybe the "pitch" you're talking about is a technical term that means something else?
@imame_ithinkso2 жыл бұрын
You have finished studying 3 languages North, Central and South and you need to learn more about "teencode" (the abbreviation).I think it's quite difficult. Eg: nước = nc ( water/ country ) đã = đx đang = đng / đag trong = trg / trog nhưng = nhx / nx / nhưg nữa = nx phương pháp = pp/ p^2 mày = m tao = t anh = a em = e không = ko/ k sử dụng = sd vân vân = v.v vui vẻ = vv mây mây = m.m Tạm biệt = pp ......... After learning teencode, we still have to learn more slang words. Eg: Bánh bèo = miêu tả các cô gái yểu điệu, mè nheo, làm nũng, tính tình tiểu thư, đỏng đảnh. (không phải bánh của miền Trung) Gato = sử dụng để nói đến cảm xúc ghen tị, khát khao có những thứ người khác có nhưng mình không có. (không phải 1 loại bánh kem) v.v & m.m There are many other words but I will just list them 'cause I'm lazy :>>> Pp ! Have a good day !
@haresonaga2 жыл бұрын
I hate this crap. My friends uses it and I don't understand.
@haresonaga2 жыл бұрын
Chx= Chưa
@imame_ithinkso2 жыл бұрын
@@haresonaga Yeahh
@doimoi9582 жыл бұрын
@@haresonaga "I don't understand so therefore it's bad!!!111"""""
@HaHanhCoLtd2 жыл бұрын
Tôi là người Việt Nam và tôi đọc bình luận của các bạn và cảm thấy rất vui, giống như mọi ngôn ngữ khác, Tiếng Việt rất đẹp! Chúc cho mọi người sự bình an và sức khỏe! Yêu tất cả!
@KIM_HS_0228 Жыл бұрын
나는 베트남 사람이고 나는 여러분의 댓글 읽고 매우 재미있다고 느꼈다. 다른 언어들처럼 베트남어는 매우 아름답다. 여러분 모두 건강하고 평안하기를 기원합니다. 여러분 모두 사랑합니다.
@Yashabi_fumerin Жыл бұрын
Yeah you right i'm Vietnam too
@aRandomLadXD Жыл бұрын
@@KIM_HS_0228 what in the world
@ink_sac Жыл бұрын
@@KIM_HS_0228 you said u r vietnamese? try speak some words
@NormalYoutubeUser24 Жыл бұрын
Bruh speak English i dont undst
@asthasr23 жыл бұрын
As a Vietnamese learner, I loved seeing this discussion of the language. There were a few really important things that I think got left out, though, namely tonal mutation (e.g. tones that vary in expression based on subsequent tones), syllabic elision (when syllables of multisyllabic words are dropped in informal speech), and sentence final particles. Classifiers and pronouns also deserve their own video -- in my opinion they're one of the hardest and most important parts of the language. Also, my wife speaks the Saigon dialect and understands/can code switch into the Hanoi dialect. She has difficulty understanding native Central-dialect speakers, and often must ask them to repeat themselves, upon which they usually emphasize the tones more than their normal speech does. There are also a lot of other dialects that seem to be undocumented in English (except maybe in some obscure academic literature), e.g. the "Southwestern Dialect" near Cambodia that replaces the 'r' sound with 'g.'
@nguyenhoangcuongle63043 жыл бұрын
Learning a language from someone who talks about your language is a new fashion
@truonghuyenngoc77343 жыл бұрын
Ngữ Văn = Tiếng việt???
@toby41873 жыл бұрын
It isn't so much about learning Vietnamese but learning ABOUT Vietnamese. It is called linguistics. :D
@xenotypos3 жыл бұрын
@@toby4187 I think he was refering to learning english, while the video talks about vietnamese. Personally I did that with my native language, I watched videos of people talking about my language and its specificities compared with english. Double gain: the guy speak english so you learn, and at the same time you understand some subtleties because of the explanations.
@아포방포-v2q3 жыл бұрын
No he means he can learn English in the video in English about Vietnamese
@monnamonsta3 жыл бұрын
@@truonghuyenngoc7734 It is, but *stronger*
@danabrousseau65799 ай бұрын
I am an english speaker, having been born in Canada. My father was from french stock and my mother and my mother was of Irish ancestry. My wife is Vietnamese from HCMC. I tell her that when she speaks with her relatives, it sounds like a bag of springs falling down the stairs. In a couple of weeks my wife and I are heading toy and Thailand for a two month trip. Now I have to quickly learn a few phrases. Quite difficult to remember just a few phrases because we’ll be traveling in south, central and north VN! Wish me luck!
@vietnamesepronounce81543 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the fact that he uses actual Vietnamese to pronounce the words.
@pggs3 жыл бұрын
Paul always uses native speakers for his examples.
@@linhle8294 Didn't realize Girls' Generation does translation work now that they're retired.
@popsab253 жыл бұрын
I'm very happy to see this video, I've been planning on learning vietnamese for a while because Viet Nam is really fascinating to me, and this video makes me feel like I won't be completely lost when I start learning it (for now I'm sticking to european languages to get used to have gradually more different structures and rules, but vietnamese and japanese are really my first goals in the asian sphere of languages) Good day to all vietnamese people in the comments
@dtlam3083 жыл бұрын
Q: How easy is it for you to communicate with speakers of other dialects? A: FYI, I use the northern dialect (Hanoi dialect for specific) About the southern dialect, the tones are mostly the same as that of northern so it’s not really difficult to understand what they say as well as for them to understand what I say. There are some changing in words, which means each dialect have its own words that share the meaning. This one might be challenging for foreigners but it’s not really important since speakers of one dialect will likely be able to understand the words of the other one. In conclusion, different but understandable pronunciation and words, not too difficult to communicate. About the central dialect, this one is pretty tough for speakers of both northern and southern dialect to understand, let alone foreigners. To put this in perspective, I have a girlfriend whose family use central dialects, and every time I visit her house and hear them speaking, I feel like a total foreigner, because I can barely understand a word they say. They eventually have to switch to the northern dialect (the one I'm using) when speaking with me for fear of misunderstanding. In conclusion: hard to understand and communicate.
@ΓεώργιοςΠαπαδόπουλος-μ9μ3 жыл бұрын
really interesting!
@uyenpham49313 жыл бұрын
thiệt chứ mình người việt nghe giọng miền trung còn khó hiểu nói gì mấy người nước ngoài, chắc ngta như ở thế giới khác luôn
@AnTran-pu2rf3 жыл бұрын
Listen to people from Nghệ An is like US people watching peaky blinders : subtitle mode on
@an29393 жыл бұрын
ngl the southern dialect share some similiar with the central dialect
@nhathoangnguyen39733 жыл бұрын
@@uyenpham4931 công nhận người Anh họ tôn trọng giọng nói thật. Dù giọng vùng Birmingham rất khó nghe và nói nhưng họ vẫn chỉ dùng giọng đó cho đúng với lịch sử. Rất nhiều diễn viễn nổi tiếng không có được vai trong phim đó vì không thể nói chuyện lưu loát bằng giọng đó.
@91tvh09 Жыл бұрын
They did a really good job explaining this, I’ve been seriously learning for 5 years and speak like a native now in a mixture of northern&southern dialects also known as Bac ky ‘75
@KaizCh3 жыл бұрын
Northen: british Southern: american Middle: what da dog doin
@divinesan77863 жыл бұрын
You’re not that guy pal, trust me, you’re not that guy.
@KaizCh3 жыл бұрын
@@divinesan7786 I am THE guy.
@alexeng4143 жыл бұрын
@@divinesan7786 What
@divinesan77863 жыл бұрын
@@alexeng414 it is a meme bro
@conco65643 жыл бұрын
Aussie
@NiminaeOld3 жыл бұрын
This video is amazingly informative. I watched this to determine if I thought I could learn Vietnamese and I now feel like I know what to look for as I learn. Thank you!
@legendarywings81203 жыл бұрын
Firstly, thank you so much for making a video about my language, thanks to that Vietnamese will be certainly known by more people, that's a precious thing! However, I think I should talk about the exceptions in Vietnamese, which are not included in the video. The adverbs in Vietnamese usually appear before the verb actually, or in other words, they may appear before or after the verbs freely. Just in some cases when people are used to speak in a fixed way, so putting the adverbs before or after the verb must be considered to sound "natural". For example " Tôi làm công việc đó dễ dàng " = " Tôi dễ dàng làm công việc đó ". Go to this part, sometimes, the Vietnamese adverb grammars are similar to Chinese 补语 grammar. As Chinese has been influenced on Vietnamese a lot so actually there are some adjectives always/usually/often come before the noun, such as: đại 大 (always), tiểu 小 (always), siêu 超 (always), Chinese origin words for color (always) (not include non Sino-Vietnamese), cổ 古 (often), cố 故 (always) and so on. As so, sometimes the order of phrases follow the order of head-final language like Chinese, but the number of this cases is small. And, haha actually Southern Vietnameae is divided into 2 big groups: the Southeastern Vietnamee and the Southwestern Vietnamese(or Mekong delta Vietnamese). There are small differences between these two, but in Southwestern Vietnamese: r = g = /ɣ/, d = gi = /y/. Anyway, thank you for this video and hope that you'll spread more knowledge for people ^^
@cuongpham62183 жыл бұрын
Well the two Southern variants are generally grouped into a big Southern dialect group. This is not unique to the South, however, as the North and especially Central Vietnam have even more local variations. It's actually a misconception that Central Vietnamese is a big, homogeneous dialect group where it should be divided into smaller ones. Central North (from southern Thanh Hoa to the Binh-Tri-Thien region) dialect group is distinct from the Danang dialect, which resembles more the Southern dialect group, and also different from the Central South dialect group, including the Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa dialect. Northern Vietnamese has less variations, but by no mean homogeneous. The prestige Hanoi dialect is clearer and easier to the ears than the maritime province dialects such as Haiphong, Nam Dinh, etc. which are characteristic with the stereotypical merging of L-N. That said, Vietnam, despite being a relatively small country, has a plethora of dialects which makes the language really interesting to do a research on.
@Jumpoable3 жыл бұрын
The Sino-Viet words for "often" & "always" is fascinating. It's like Classical Chinese!
@legendarywings81203 жыл бұрын
@@Jumpoable You meant the pronunciation?
@Jumpoable3 жыл бұрын
@@legendarywings8120 I have no idea ow you pronounce it in Vietnamese... but you provided the historical Chinese characters, so I meant that was fascinating!
@GalileoGal-o4f2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much, teacher! Right now, I'm using Ling app to study the Vietnamese language but this video also helps so much as I can use these for more practical uses as Ling only allows me ton learn the words and not put them thoroughly in many different context. Appreciate your thorough and clear teaching :)
@MinhNguyen-gk8zu3 жыл бұрын
Tips for learning Vietnamese: you can practice with a tree instead of your teacher
@viecongslime83053 жыл бұрын
:))))))
@ruedigernassauer3 жыл бұрын
@@viecongslime8305 Cây Đa Biết Nói!!!
@monnamonsta3 жыл бұрын
@@ruedigernassauer *Any tree can talk here, you know*
@anhtu-rd7vp3 жыл бұрын
@@viecongslime8305 hế lô đồng chí
@anhtu-rd7vp3 жыл бұрын
@@ruedigernassauer hé lô đồng chí nha
@funnynews60703 жыл бұрын
Hay quá.Cảm ơn admin đã mang tiếng Việt của chúng tôi đến với bạn bè quốc tế.Thank you from Viet Nam.
@kikinikaluo.s23 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with this language sometime around 2016 and 2018 when I saw someone post a vietnamese song on social media, got curious and listened to it and I just thought "wow, this sounds like magic" so I searched for it and it's so beautiful. It's probably the most beautiful language I've ever listened (after mine, of course)✨💖 But the ~ sound is so difficult 😭
@darkhable3 жыл бұрын
Did you remember what song?
@kikinikaluo.s23 жыл бұрын
@@darkhable no idea lol I'm that not into music, nowadays my vietnamese friends try to make me listen to vpop to improve my vocabulary but I'm just too lazy xD
@HieuNguyen-gd9jr3 жыл бұрын
We don't always pronunce that right either 🤣 Southern accent usually use ? instead of ~ and actually people can 100% understand what you means. For example nghỉ means stop doing something meanwhile nghĩ means think about something. But you can say nghỉ in every cases and people still understand. Even if you misspell when you text, people still can understand it and automaticly think that you misspell 🤣
@batmanreturn66313 жыл бұрын
You are right
@geminivan13063 жыл бұрын
@@HieuNguyen-gd9jr The power of mother tongue
@Nguoiphuongnam338 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Paul! You do good job! As an old Vietnamese, I’m so astonished by your analysis, more things than I ever learned in school. 😂❤
@ToLeNam3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I've waited for a video about Vietnamese for so long from you! Thank you for this and it was really nice working with you! Some additional about some lines you use in the video, in the line you use to examine the number of Sino-Vietnamese, the word "mít" is ultimately from Sanskrit word पारमिता (paramita), which is adopted in Vietnamese through Chinese 菠萝蜜. Some Vietnamese botanical names are also having the same Sanskrit -Chinese origins like cần sa (marijuana) - from Sanskrit गञ्जा (ganja) or bồ đề, from Sanskrit: बोधि (bodhi) via Chinese 菩提. Also for the tones theory for Vietnamese, I actually think it might have influences from Chinese tones because the current Vietnamese tones matches the Middle Chinese 4 tones system (平-上-去-入), and the systen is used a lot in Vietnamese literally poetic systems that was affected by Tang poetry.
@Weareallmadheretoo3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know the sanskrit connection! I learnt sanskrit in school for a few years, but I don't know too much about its history and influence on other languages! Thanks for sharing with us!
@ToLeNam3 жыл бұрын
@@Weareallmadheretoo For Vietnamese there isn't much Sanskrit influences but for others Southeast Asian languages like Thai, Indonesian or Malaysia it's more significant
@Weareallmadheretoo3 жыл бұрын
@@ToLeNam yes, sanskrit has so much influence on other Indian languages as well!
@Don20063 жыл бұрын
Holy crap bro, how do you know all this
@Weareallmadheretoo3 жыл бұрын
@@ToLeNam just saw that you provided the southern samples! Just wanted to say that your voice is so soothing!
@nkwan48483 жыл бұрын
I'm a Vietnamese living in Hanoi but my family came from Hà Tĩnh, a central province, so I speak in my Hà Tĩnh accent at home. There was no problem until I got into primary school. My classmates couldn't understand what I was talking since they hadn't heard Hà Tĩnh accent before so I had to learn to speak in Hanoi accent and now my accent is like half-Hanoi and half-Hà Tĩnh, which is kinda weird. :)
@kegietcongsan3 жыл бұрын
tui Nghệ An mà bạn tui cũng toàn ng miền Bắc nên cũng nói nửa Bắc nửa Trung như ông á
@08_thanthienkim913 жыл бұрын
ba mẹ tôi ng bắc ng trung còn cả nhà tôi thì sống trong nam nên giọng tôi lai tạp đủ thứ, tuỳ cảm xúc mà nói thôi :((
@Hangannie20243 жыл бұрын
Tiếng Việt đã khó học với người Tây cái mà họ nghe tiếng địa phương miền Trung với cái giọng đặc sệt nữa thì haha. Đồng hương 38 xin chào ^^
@nkwan48483 жыл бұрын
@@08_thanthienkim91 t nch bthg với bạn t thì nói giọng gần-giống-Bắc, còn khi cãi nhau mà cục lên thì nói giọng Trung luôn, nhiều khi cno ko hiểu t đag nói gì để cãi lại ^^
@nkwan48483 жыл бұрын
@@Hangannie2024 38 mà khác huyện thì còn chưa chắc đã hiểu nhau :))
@thanhhanguyen65513 жыл бұрын
He's spot on about the historical Vietnamese language and its evolution to what it is today.
@amkhathavongsa5172 ай бұрын
You are so intelligent. Thanks for the information. Very interesting that the Portuguese introduced the alphabet to Vietnam and not the French that most people thought.