Learn Vietnamese: Lesson 12: Pronouncing 20 Common Vietnamese Last Names

[@VinceNet]

"Helpful towards pronouncing your coworker's, classmate's, or friend's last name" -that awkward moment when you come here to find out how to pronounce your own name

[@makisekurisu8594]

I'm having an identity crisis from these videos

[@TheBassSinger]

Wow... I've been mispronouncing my own last name my entire life xD

[@datnguyen3441]

Chắc đọc Vỏ hay Dỏ chứ gì kkkk

[@chloe3988]

i've probably been pronouncing it the same way as you! i pronounced it vo as in no. my last name is quach. :)

[@derekhasabrain]

I learned so much about all the Vietnamese accents simply from this video. Thank you

[@carlosHERRERA-bx5mm]

Extremely useful. Voice is crystal clear. Many thanks!

[@xiaa8703]

My last name is Đỗ.... you know, i love how others pronounce it like "Doo" even when i tell them its "Doe" like a female deer.... its great.... i love it..... .__.

[@Asianredneck1000]

hey Donna, I'm in the military studying for DLPT test, this helped me out a lot. Thanks

[@xiaa8703]

oh my all of my family's lasts names are in here! Đỗ, Đặng, Nguyễn, Phạm, and Vũ

[@daddyhazelz]

Noooo! U have a Nguyen in there? No way lol

[@marinabobis3947]

11:55AM, 05/16/2023, 3rd Tuesday of May 2023. Thank you so very respectfully. GOD BLESS Vietnamese-Americans💞

[@assofan]

Yay you are back! Great work,keep it up

[@jerrywhite506]

My family in the southern countryside pronounce the letter “V” the same as they do the letter “G”. Thus my stepson’s name Vũ ends up being pronounced (in English) as “Yo”. My Vietnamese friends have suggested that if, when I read something that they have written, I see a word that begins with a “g” that I don’t understand, change the “g” to a “v”, then maybe I will understand.😊

[@mil1450]

I pronounce my name Huynh, like with a "one" sound. So I said my name wrong for these years.

[@meyiyiyi55]

excellent video.thank you very much.cam on

[@KitsunePhotography]

My son’s father’s family insist on Le being pronounced as Lee 🤷🏽‍♀️ I kinda just go along with it since it’s their last name

[@Cosmosandchisme]

Lol my husband is the same way! I tell him I rather pronounce it as “lay” because my name is Kimberly and “Lee” sounds funny at the end of my name.

[@litmibimi]

That is hard... My god

[@anniel6918]

Really? I never really knew what it was like for people not native to the Vietnamese language to think of the Vietnamese language...

[@gummydogs]

@@anniel6918 As a non-native speaker, my brain has to like compute some nuclear physics equation while climbing 215 flights of stairs to figure out how to pronounce one Vietnamese word

[@kimtaro9575]

yay glad you're back

[@GiaoXuChauBinh]

OK, You speak very well !

[@jiagengliu]

Can anyone tell me whether her accent is southern Vietnamese?

[@banhmycha9072]

+Jiāgěng Liú (刘嘉耿) yes, it is southern Vietnamese accent.

[@joelthanhledelgado9565]

its a southern accent, at first i thought its north, by the sound of it, its a southern accent

[@chloe3988]

I'm pretty sure it's a southern vietnamese accent! i've been listening to southern viet accents all my life! and yep, it's probably a south viet accent.

[@mintygreen595]

my last name is Le with the hat thingy on top. and my moms last name is Nguyen with the hat and dau nga.

[@xBluRAYdisK]

I'm sure that at the american work place the name tags, or lists with names won't have the diacritical marks : (

[@minnminnho5482]

How about Tran or Ho?

[@riolam2491]

@Jiāgěng Liú (刘嘉耿): Southern accent

[@thespritetoyourjhopethespr5448]

I'm learning this bc of my teacher...she's vietnamese

[@sergeyrafirudov]

Đoàn is often pronounced "Dwahne" in Hanoi dialect and "Dohn" or "Dwahgn" in Saigon dialect (the latter is more formal and urban-like).

[@kyanitedoanite3107]

Or da wan

[@sergeyrafirudov]

@@kyanitedoanite3107 it sound be single-syllable

[@bom74100]

so what's your last name??

[@minicute2612]

She speaks Vietnamese like the south Vietnamese 😊

[@rayleeo1951]

Could anyone help me find the meaning of my name? LeLy...my dad served in Vietnam and gave me the name. He passed away years ago and I've never known the meaning.

[@imjustadreamer1600]

Does anyone know how to pronounce the last name Danh? Because apparently it’s not pronounced Dan.

[@JinLiu06]

I dont know how to spell the word " Tiến", help me plz!!!

[@LjnhXjnhVjp123]

sao ko có Đoàn nhỉ?

[@Discdecire]

in modern vietnamese based on Ha noi pronunciation "tr" is pronounced like "ch" /tch/

[@MRKLBS]

How "tr" is pronounced in Vietnamese? I think it sounds like "zh" in chinese pinyin or I'm wrong? D:?

[@ry1106]

Lam?

[@cindyle116]

People say my last name as Lee but it's actually Lay in how it's pronounced but now I just say Lee when people ask my last name with one e

[@xvi3tboiix]

YES LUU IS IN THE TOP 20!!!!

[@dumpling3309]

Vo is pronounced Vaw?

[@MrKampaikampai]

how about tram? with a diatrics over the A

[@자낳토끼]

I don't think that's a common Viet last name

[@자낳토끼]

what Tram are you talking about? this has literally 30 different meanings if you put it like that XD

[@MrKampaikampai]

書shū over 30?? my gawd.. i give up lol.. its not last name.. its her first name.. her name is tram nguyen..

[@자낳토끼]

Yee FLK it should be "Trâm" then and it means hairpin XD

[@MrKampaikampai]

書shū i dunno lol.. i just have a hard time pronouncing the name >.

[@diamondcakes5829]

I new ly and Nguyen would be there

[@jennieisweird9566]

welp have seriously been saying my last name wrong my whole entire life! "Phan" I say it as "fan" or "ph-an" but what I hear in this is "phang" LIKE BRUH

[@MsTienna]

JennieIsWeird sameee but I knew it was like “phang” I just say fan in front of Americans😂

[@NamNguyen-jr3lw]

Actually fan is correct but southern accent pronounce it like fang

[@cinslimes]

I can't pronounce my last name . it's doan. and i don't know if it's (don) or (doaan)

[@YuDumPhuck]

@KojiroDangerous The way you pronounced, New-yen, is not wrong. That's the right way; the american way. But if you want to pronounce the vietnamese way, then learn from this video.

[@MonaLisa-ei1ci]

oh thangs a lot!! x3 thats great!!

[@blueealge332]

@GDQT yup... maybe 1000 thousand years ago =))... and i'm not chinese anymore :)

[@asianlub]

I c my last name and this was posted on my birthday ^.^

[@mushroomkenai]

@JinLiu06 tieen! i'm vietnamese but i don't know how to write it! sorry! i think this is a wrong way to learn vietnamese coz it's too complicated! in vietnamese languague, we just combine the vowel and the consonant together.in 2 vowels we pronounce half of the first vowel and conbine with the second vowel! that's all! EASY!

[@MRKLBS]

It was just a question, and btw, why do u feel offended? BTW, Vietnamese is not 100% different from Chinese, I know that they use Chinese derived words, and those words are the one that if you change the tone, change the meaning, and Vietnamese also used to write in Chinese Characters.

[@bannerbc]

I am Phạm ..so proud.Yeah Thumbs up if you're too

[@xiaolungpao]

I think my last name is common but it's not there =.= Mine is "Tạ" which means "thanks"

[@PrincessPiggy71]

My little sister is Ly My name is Ngan and our last name is Nguyen-Pham

[@mikemastropaolo6832]

That is great. I wish you hadn't had to cry before doing this video before. You are so pretty and it looks like you had a tough time right before the video. Hope all is well. :)

[@PerryKassupo]

yay!! for HUYNH!!! lol :D

[@randy7865]

This is so easy

[@xiaolungpao]

@whitepen thấy dzui dzui nên học =)))))))))) ngồi đọc mấy cái phiên âm mắc cười lắm =))))))))))))))))))

[@xoxoMaiLinhxoxo]

Yay :) Le was in it :)

[@blackeyes6789]

Quách Đoàn (my mother) we are Vietnamese

[@TrishaTran2001]

Yay my last name is on there!

[@twinkletoes4lyf]

aww I guess phung isn't a popular one :(

[@kaennakorn7092]

south or north accent?

[@anniel6918]

South

[@kaennakorn7092]

how can I find the north accent Vietnamese lesson.

[@narutokirby333]

Mine was cao but it sounds too much like cow so we changed it

[@angelplazz2605]

nguyen in vietnamese kinda sounds like good in vietnamese dunno..

[@blackeyes6789]

Nguyễn and Trần are the most common Đặng , Lê , Tạ v.v............. a lot i think so

[@lukearmy7]

Where is the two most popular clans by far? The Tran clan and Nguyen clan? 😂

[@cauberungxanh88]

her pronouce Phan as Phang, it's more like ph-ann

[@alant367]

Southern Vietnamese people pronounces it with a « g » at the end

[@MsTienna]

Alan T yeah that’s my last name and I’m southern she pronounced it the way I would

[@onegreenfly]

in viet nam ,last name is nguyễn is most popular...so my last name is nguyễn too ^^

[@Janitabonita19]

@KojiroDangerous LOL don't worry I had that problem with my viet students and they also didn't say anything!

[@animeenglish5033]

last name vietnamse : Thân , Ma , Quách, Chu, Bạch, Mã, Diệp, Đặng, Huỳnh, Liêm,

[@dana-lu8bo]

Wow I didn't know my last name (Tran) was common!

[@guyinsf]

It's the second most common in Vietnam.

[@JinLiu06]

Lưu= / lou/ , so what is "Tiến''=???

[@isisisnsmassuc1]

My last name is Tran and this is what happens in school Trun Trew

[@samaranguyen-costa7945]

im nguyen (i dont have the vietnameese letters yet :()

[@tohdohsibir]

Guess my last name's uncommon. Don't worry it's easy to say, pronounced just as in "Thailand."

[@THE1V]

video day tieng Viet ma` toan` nguoi Viet coi ko ha`

[@KatariaGujjar]

Truong very hard to pronounce

[@thythy180]

like how you say TRUE

[@Taurus.93]

its so very hard for studient

[@that1guysittingthere]

My last name was Duong, People never get it right so I don't even know how it's supposed to be pronounced. If I try, teachers say Young

[@hensleythien3649]

My last name is Tran. Pretty easy, except people have carted it like "tron"... :(

[@TuyetNhung]

If you don't mind, I can help you. ^^. Please let me know if you still want to learn Vietnamese. ^^

[@SoumiSu]

My last name is Huynh and telemarketers keep butchering it. Here are some variations of how they pronounce it: "HooYin", "Hooun", "Hoon", "Heen", oh and "HoiEn/ HoiYen"

[@daddyhazelz]

I always tell people the closest pronunciation of my name in english is win. Now im met with i thought it is gwin? In the 90s thats how we taught people how to say it!

[@DanielSparten]

Really? Duong isn't one of them?

Guido no you wrong my classmate have name Dương Thanh Tùng

[@DanielSparten]

Thiện Chí Nguyễn okkkk but Duong is a last name as well.

[@criskity]

They're Chinese: Cao 高 Dinh 丁 Huynh 黃 Nguyen 阮 Le 李 Tran 陳 Vu 吳 Vuong 王

[@tannewton]

I changed my last name on youtube because I can't pronounce my own (Vietnamese) name. It's the second name which starts with an N in this video.

[@tambanhtinhyeu]

ex: your name is Jenny Tran last name is Tran first name is Jenny But Vietnamese call Tran Jenny Because Tran is a "Họ" and Jenny is a "Tên" (name) EX: Trần Thanh Hà (Tran Thanh Ha) First name is Ha Mid Name Is Thanh Last name Is Tran You call: Ha T Tran in Vietnam call: Tran T Ha

[@andyphillips9068]

Why is the most popular surname so hard to pronounce!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xuanhuynh9105]

TEAM HUYNH❤️❤️

[@InflamousAyame]

I am Ngo, i think that is the most difficult for foreigners to pronounce. :(

[@whitepen]

Ng` Viet cung le^n day ho.c tieng viet nua ha? vui ghe vay hahahaha

[@randy7865]

I can't believe that you said my last name and my dad last name and my mom last name and my litle brother last name

[@자낳토끼]

cool story bro

[@xXHalostDarknessXx]

YESH YOU SAID NGUYEN! :D

[@tramnguyen4162]

It had my family last names

[@chloe3988]

it didn't include mine! my last name is quach

[@concretemathematics8146]

SO, what is your last name, Donna? Did I spell your name correctly?

[@Kinhnamese]

She's not gonna make a 60 minutes video covering all 100 Vietnamese last names.

[@mimyminty]

what about nguyen?

[@anniel6918]

They did that. It like 'Weeng' except you sort of cut the g short.

[@anniel6918]

And also your voice gets a bit higher as you go through the name

[@mimyminty]

Snow Angel ahh! ok thanks i think i missed it in the vid *its what i was refering to since im viet i understand it haha

[@franklinhu573]

nagooyen, that felt good.

[@DanielNessBRUH]

Shit, I’ve been saying it wrong. I thought it was pronounced like *Trung* when it’s mother tucking *Troong*

[@selenamusic22]

U said my last name too

[@arini8750]

My last name is huynh, so is my dad and my mum is dang... What a coincidence....

[@lengocbaothinh2553]

Sorry but you might be an adopted child

[@arini8750]

Sếp Lớp Phó​ explains. My mom keeps saying I was adopted because I look nothing like her 😂 our family is big! 12 people. 10children and I am the 2nd youngest. No one looks like my parents 😃I asked my parents "con la con nuoi phai khong?" And they burst out laughing hahahaha

[@arini8750]

Sếp Lớp Phó my last name is huỳnh tho.... my dad's last name is huỳnh too and my mom didn't change her last name when she married so hers is đạng

[@lengocbaothinh2553]

ah, it's OK. "cause you made me confused by the first comment " My last name is huynh, so is my dad and my mum is dang... What a coincidence.... ". I thought your parents have the last name Đặng

[@arini8750]

Sếp Lớp Phó ooooo oops 😂I'm a very confusing person

[@RainbowColoredCandyz]

You said my last name ^^"

[@SaphiaTruong]

Có "Trương" là okie òi :P...

[@an1697]

Ngo is the best.

[@xblueBEARx]

My last name was in there tooo :)