Bilingual – English and Vietnamese – 1
Submitted by Mark White on August 9, 2007 – 6:00 am 5 Comments
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I speak Vietnamese.
(Vietnamese)
I don’t speak English.
(Vietnamese)
I want to learn English.
(Vietnamese)
I want to go to Australia.
(Vietnamese)
I don’t want to go to India.
(Vietnamese)
I want to go to Australia.
(Vietnamese)
How much is this?
(Vietnamese)
Five thousand dong.
(Vietnamese)
Thank you very much.
(Vietnamese)
Bye-bye.
(Vietnamese)
Tags: asian-languages, austro-asiatic-languages, Bilinguals, english-and-vietnamese, greetings, learn-vietnamese, numbers, present-simple-tense, Vietnam, want-plus-infinitive
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These basic conversations are useful, are there more coming? Also, do you happen to have the Vietnamese transcriptions?
There is something wrong in one of the sentences above.
The sentence “Thank you very much” must be translated “Cám ?n r?t nhi?u”, not “Không có chi”.
you’re right.
Thank you very much
(C?m ?n r?t nhi?u)
You’re welcome
(Không có chi)
I agree with you
I lived in Vietnam in 1997 and taught English in Ho Chi Minh City. I guess it has changed a lot since since then.
I tried to learn Vietnamese and the grammar seemed quite accessible but the pronunciation was a real stumbling block! Tonal languages are hard for people who have agglutinative languages and inflected languages as a native language.
I never got up to Hanoi.