Vietnamese language: - grammar: one of the easiest languages on the planet - pronunciation: one of the hardest; ex: you can have a sentence of 20 words and each word is totally different vowels, diphthongs, triphthongs and monophthong. - writing system: Latin (easy and familiar to everyone) and consistent rules (unlike English, a bunch of exceptions, even more than its rules and grammar combined) Basically it 😎
Đúng rồi đó, tiếng việt dễ nói lắm, nói câu nào ra đa số cũng đúng dù sai ngữ pháp của nước họ nhưng phiên âm thì thôi rồi khỏi nói, đọc hiểu và viết cũng gọi là dễ chứ không khó nhưng đối với mấy người nước ngoài mới học, họ chưa quen với nền văn hóa việt nam nên việc phân biệt từ này từ kia với nhau, cái này cái kia với nhau mới khó :)))))
I'm Vietnamese and I've never realized how difficult Vietnamese is until I randomly tried a Vietnamese test online :)) I realized it is really hard to explain our grammar and vocabulary to non-native speakers. We don't really have a specific way to indicate tenses and fixed grammar structures as in English, not to mention the spelling and accents on words. It's truly challenging! Good luck with your learning journey and I hope you will see the beauty and prosperity of Vietnamese as we all do ^^. Cố lên!
yep. i never realized how autopilot viet grammar was, so i thought it would be easy to foreigners. good thing i speak both semantic and analytic languages so it’s easier to learn other languages
Many Vietnamese do not know: C + UỜ = CUỜ = QUỜ = QU QUÔ = CUA UỜ + Y = UY UỜ + Ô = UA UƠ + ÔC = UÔC = UAC UƠ + IA = UYA (UỜ + IA) + N = UYÊN IỂ = IA, ..... TIẾNG VIỆT = TIÁNG VIẠT!
I’m learning Vietnamese and I would say it’s definitely challenging in ways that other languages I’ve learned have not been. Learning to hear the unusual tones, getting used to the discrepancy between spelling and actual pronunciation... The hardest thing in the US is that many Vietnamese people don’t seem comfortable answering in Vietnamese, and more immersion would really be helpful. But my ear is already getting used to it, it’s fun when you start hearing meaning instead of just sound. I’ll be happy to get to a basic conversational level so that I can get to know people when I finally go to Vietnam!
Hey sazji you're right on about the tones. Many Vietnamese in Vietnam (arguably the majority) don't seem comfortable answering in Vietnamese either. Keep up the good work! :)
Go to Việt Nam! South will more difficult then the North. It will be hard to hear and respond because it’s always busy and noisy everywhere. Learn to write and pronounce words and that will make it easier to remember.
I am Vietnamese. I am studying English . I just want to find a partner who want to study Vietnamese everyday and he/she can help me learn English . Thank you :)
You must also consider that most teachings of vietnamese is in northern accent due to the fact that it's the official but you will definitely struggle with dialects and north and south accents, if interested to help me learn vietnamese reply and leave a WhatsApp or snapchat I'd.
It’s so interesting that I see this video today. I’m Vietnamese and I’m totally aware of how it is challenging to foreigners. Not only is the pronunciation of all words difficult but Vietnamese people do not speak Vietnamese in the way foreigners are taught or the way Vietnamese language is properly spoken.
I'm Vietnamese, and I don't know Vietnamese at all. I've tried learning but it is such a difficult language, especially due to it being a tonal language. I'm actually learning French and Spanish, and my parents are side-eyeing me for learning other languages lol
My problem here is: I can speak and understand Vietnamese very well But I cant write it 😩 I’m mixed (German/Vietnam) so I can obviously speak both I can only read and write a little bit Vietnamese but it’s so fricking difficult YEET
I’m a Viet kid born in America and it’s still hard for me to balance it, even growing up hearing it. Props to anyone who wants to learn it, it definitely isn’t as easy to pick up as Spanish or French, comparably. Learning Language is like an endurance challenge, and I hope that everyone doesn’t give up!
@@guerric This has to do with the structure of the language. Many European languages like English form new words by adding prefixes and suffixes. These are called synthetic languages. Vietnamese is mostly an analytic language, which means we indicate changes in meaning using helper words instead of modifying the original word. For example, you might notice that Vietnamese doesn't have verb tenses (like 'do' and 'did' in English). Vietnamese tenses are indicated by context (saying the specific time an action takes place), or adding a particle like đã (past) and sẽ (future). For more on this, check out Tom Scott's video on language typology czcams.com/video/bxARj07jFp0/video.html Also, Langfocus's video on languages without verb tenses czcams.com/video/9XqdvarsGMU/video.html
For someone who currently is trying to learn Mandarin and in the near future other tonal languages such as Vietnamese and Thai, I find this video extremely encouraging! Thank you!
Man, I'm wishing I had learned growing up! I'm half Vietnamese and half Puerto Rican, so my parents spoke English in the house. Since my dad was the only one from his family in the US, and most of my friends were black where I was from, I was always a little disconnected from my heritage and never tried to learn. But now that I'm older and trying to learn on my own, I'm finding it extremely difficult and don't know if I can
It is extremely difficult. You can do it, you just need to decide if it’s worth 1,000+ hours of your life if you want to speak it really well! If it isn’t no problem, but if it is just know that it’s only a matter of time before you can speak Vietnamese well provided you consistently put the time in! :D
You are totally on point ! I am studying Vietnamese now and feeling the pain and frustration, I am trying my hardest but sometimes I think it's just not going to happen. I am challenged in more ways than I could have possibly imagined.
ur young and talented dude... in my age its a diff situation. even my english is bad. but i agree, you can go for coffee and having a good time with the ladys only with basic conversation. they make ur smile
I think that is the case for me. I can relate to you so much because my language partner corrected me multiple times even though I felt like I'm speaking in the correct tone. It was absolutely crazy.
Interesting video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm working on a video about all of the things that are surprisingly easy about Vietnamese as sort of a way to combat that all-too-common idea that it is impossible to learn. Congrats on reaching such a high level of proficiency!
What makes it additionally hard is the fact that they have no properly recognized pronunciation standard. To take the example of the word book in your video, "sách": In the South (South of Huế) this is pronounced nearly as "shut" (as you pronounced it) and in the North nearly as "sack", both with rising tone. In the North they have had three sound mergers (one of them triple) that causes many homophones and is circumventend by clusters of two equally meaning words (for instance. "tro tan" for ash instead of simply "tro" as this is in the North pronounced equal as "cho").In Germany we have "High German" with just one standard pronunciation. Any pronunciation differing from that is regarded as accent.. And these regional differences concern also the words used in daily conversation. But writing a lot seems to be the best method. I like to take Vietnamese fairy tales, translate them into German and a little afterwards retranslate them into Vietnamese to compare with the original. This improves the reading skill. Tôi thích đọc tranh truyện dân gian Việt Nam rất nhiều! Most rewarding about the Vietnamese language are its fantastically logical combined words.They even have a one syllable word for electricity which can be combined with anything.With more clarity in its pronunciation and lewss homophones and different meanings in one word it could be a world language for all people.
there's no official dialect of english either. you just pick one and stick with it. although in many professional settings such as for newscasters, the Hanoi accent has and is considered the "standard", but how people speak in daily life even in Hanoi will differ from the "newscaster dialect" with its overly refined vocabulary and pronunciation.
@@LC-hd5dc No, I do not agree to your opinion to English. I have relatives having moved several times in the USA. There is a standard American English pronunciation widely used in American TV (and apart from that are local varieties such as Southern accent etc.) and there is Oxford English (and apart from that local varieties such as Cockney, Scottish, whatever). These two varieties of standard English have a slightly different vocabulary and a slightly different spelling (which in the American case stemmed from the Webster dictionary that tries to simplify spelling a bit). This is represented also by the phonetic transscription when learning English. But these are two standards of which the Oxford standard is the standard for worldwide conversation.
No problem. There are certainly a fair share of foreigners in Vietnam that speak the language better than I do, but I hope you were able to get some interesting insights from this video :D
Vietnamese has 5 most popular tones and 3 marks on letters, for example with the "a", "o" and "u" characters, we got "á, à, ã, ạ, ả" and "ă-â, ê, ô-ơ, ư" In Vietnam, we speak it with 3 main accents: Northern [Sounds really high] Central [Sounds like when you speak it without tones] Southern [Sounds lower than the Northern]
Wait,hello Mr.Cameron.I am wondering.Because,when I was at primary school which name: Nguyễn Huệ.I still remember I have an English teacher name Cameron like u.Student like me usually call you by the name:"Thầy Cam",he is a funny teacher,his lessons always funny with students.And he could play guitar too.You made me remember of him☺️
Your video is really helpful, because it shows that learning Vietnamese can be done - if one puts his heart into it... I started learning Vietnamese a few month ago, tried using some online sources and learn right now "for real" with Duolingo. I like the easy grammar and how sentences are built, I know how the six tones work and begin to hear differences - if spoken slowly. That is my greatest fear right now (next to the right use of personal pronouns for adressing other people) - I think at some point it will be possible to read and understand, to write, to speak (at a basic level). But understanding vietnamese people in normal life (instead of the speakers in learning sources) will be a way more difficult. But well - I'll certainly try.
Thank god I grew up speaking and listening to Vietnamese when I was younger. Nowadays, I speak only English but thanks to my background, I have a much easier time than most when it comes to Vietnamese pronunciation and recognizing the slight tone differences of the words.
Fellow Wisconsinite here and learning Vietnamese (twice a week over the past 2 years w/teacher). I can fully relate to her making me repeat a word/phrase (that I thought I was speaking correctly) because my usage of the tone is wrong. Sometimes I feel it is impossible, so it's great to hear your encouragement.
I learned German to a basic intermediate level and that took me years of dedicated work, (I’m still trying to move forward with that) Vietnamese is the second language I’ve seriously tried to learn, especially since developing a language learning method that works for me. It’s definitely challenging for many reasons but almost any language would take serious hard work for most people to get conversationally fluent and comfortable with it. I believe the human mind is capable of great things but we have to be ok with putting in the time and effort. Also with this said I’m only a few weeks into Vietnamese but I’m working on getting the sounds right first… I had a tutoring session on italki the other day and spent 10 minutes trying to pronounce ng correctly 😅
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
Hey, that's a good video! Many thanks to the author of the channel! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
the Vietnamese language has an average degree of difficulty, but the biggest problem is that there are no really good courses for foreigners who want to learn Vietnamese. Not surprising because the Vietnamese had more important work to do, such as rebuilding the country and the number of people who want to learn Vietnamese is limited. An additional problem is that anyone who can speak Vietnamese believes that they can also teach in it. Subsequently, young people mainly want to practice English with you and practicing your Vietnamese is very difficult. My Vietnamese is very limited but the people around here understand it well. Other Vietnamese look at my Vietnamese friends and ask them what I say. If my friends understand, they should be able to understand it, after all, the Vietnamese themselves all speak a different Vietnamese.
Hey dude, I’m a new subscriber, cool video. I’m currently learning Spanish but want to learn Vietnamese, so I have a little advantage because I work in a Vietnamese community( Westminster, Ca, Little Saigon). Where do I start learning Vietnamese?
I have 3 friends name:Kiên,Bích,Phúc.Oneday I met them going out together.But They dont see me.So I shouted:Hey Phúc,Kiên,Bích Phúc,Kiên,Bích Phúc,Kiên,Bích Fucking Bitch I miss them so much.We havent met from that day
Impressive! I want to practice daily, but I do not have 2-3 hours a day to commit. Are apps like MANGO, which has visual and audio parts enough, or do I need a live human being to tutor me for learning proper tones?
The reason when you say a word in Vietnamese, and your friend can’t understand it is that you should say a group of words or a whole sentence. A single word doesn’t make any sense in Vietnamese because one has a few meanings. For example: you said “sách”, and it has a few definitions depending on context. It can be “Sách vở” (book), “sách nhiễu or xách nhiễu” (harass), “lá sách” (tripe, some sort of stomach organ), “cửa sổ lá sách” (jalousie or louvre window). Đường in Vietnamese has many definitions: đường for cooking means sugar, đường for civil engineer means street, đường for aviation means đường băng (runway at an airport), đường hàng không (airway), in Sino-Vietnamese đường means a court like a front yard (minh đường, tiền đường). It also means lunatic like in “hoang đường” See, one word in Vietnamese has sophisticated definitions, so next time try to say it in a group of words.
Yep, one year later I’ve found being understood soooo much easier, partially due to better pronunciation but also due to your point about the intended word(s) being more recognizable if the listener has context.
Would you mind linking the anki deck you used? I'm a Vietnamese American and I'm trying to improve. Also congrats on your journey for learning the language!
Hi Cameron, which Anki do you use or can your share yours? Im struggling to find one with just words and sounds, all I find are advanced one with full sentences. Also, did you go to a proper course, like the one at D1 university or something similar? What are your material to learn? Cheers, good video nonetheless. Im sort of in your boots, I want to learn vietnamese and Im learning code as well.
Learning any new language is always challenging. I am guilty of being a westerner who has lived in VN for quite a while without trying, but I have decided to spend an hour a day during lockdown to try and learn. Trời ơi!
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
making your deck is almost the main part of the process, and learning thousands words at once with the deck of someone else will kill you ^^ also if you make your cards gradually by picking on the bunch, your deck will reflect your interests and then its not going to be just an irrelevant random list of vocab for you
Hi! I'm trying to learn vietnamese, but everytime I decide to, I plan steps for me to take but I end up moving from one subject to another.. let's say for example grammar. I move on to another subject, for example pronunciation shortly after. I think this problem for me would be less of an issue if I knew what step I should take first to know basics of vietnamese. I've seen some people say that learning pronunciation of words and alphabet should be the first step, but others have said that learning a variety of basic vietnamese words is the first step. Hearing these things, I don't know which step would get me more advanced. Any advice?
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
Hey Rory, I speak mostly Southern Vietnamese as I've spent most of my time in Saigon. Maybe you can do some research to see which part of the country seem slike a good place to live/visit and that can help you to decide! :)
Vietnam or Cuba are my two choices for places to move in a few years. Cuba has a lot of advantages like geography and cost of living, but Vietnam has weed (which is big for me) and a lot of travel opportunity. I also know that most English speakers would say Spanish is easier than Vietnamese, and neither language is just overnight of course, but for some reason I just hate practicing Spanish with an insane passion.
I am interested in learning Vietnamese everyday culture, especially how they see things differently from westerners. Jokes are usually good at showing cultural differences, including what the people find funny.
I am leanrning Vietnamese and I have to say it is really difficult but if you already have some knowledge about Chinese like me,you will make progress in learning Vietnamese much easier.
True. Knowing Chinese beforehand is a powerful tool to learn Vietnamese. And if you can take advantage of the Sino-Vietnamese (Hán-Việt) system, then great. Like knowing French and Latin does help with understanding English (though not 100%, of course). Chinese ---> Vietnamese (Northern dialect) ---> Vietnamese (Southern dialect) is a worthwhile journey in my opinion. But if you only want to learn Vietnamese, just get straight to it.
Studying a new language is really challange for all us.I'm Vietnamese who also learn English as well as you study my country 's language. I spend at least 2 hours countinuely reapeating but not any good results to me. There are many different about grammar , the way of pronunciation and expression emotion of words every where also not the same.It cause losing time to do it and i feel a bit depression in my brain
Tourists to Thailand seem to aquire a dozen or so words after just a few days it seems. It's a cute sounding accessible language with a "coherent" native alphabet.
Actually, Vietnamese is really difficult cause as a native speaker, just a few people can understand me when i talk with my different accent from others.
Am vietnamese even we do not understand each othher, things are need to understand daily communication. One thing we can explain in many ways. Same language but people in North VN not understand middle of Vietnam what they say
Vietnamese vowels are so complicated, and consonants are hard to distinguish as well. Even today I still have no idea what're the differences between "d" and "r", "q" and "k", " đ" and "t" as well as "ch" and "tr", and why "kh" sometimes sounds like "h" sound? OMG so many questions I don't know😭
As many have mentioned the main issue is the phonics...grammar is retardedly easy and vocab is quite easy since most are max 2 syllables but those phonics...dayumn. I can't remember the sound of the words (yet) because I can't even conceptualise them.
I am Vietnamese. I am studying English . I just want to find a partner who want to study Vietnamese everyday and he/she can help me learn English . Thank you :)
I'm vietnamese boy. I'm beginer studying English and really want to practice English everyday. If you want to learn Vietnamese also. I can teach you. We are improve together. I'm in Ha Noi.
Thanks Brandon. Anki is a spaced repetition system app. Quizlet is also a bit of an SRS app. Basically, they try to show you your flashcard right before they expect you to forget it in order to maximize your retention.
Wait i don't understand. So he wrote the Vietnamese word elephant for an hour? How does that make sense? Then he says an hour or two writing and an hour or two practicing tonal. That's up to 4 hours a day
Tôi là người Việt Nam, tôi có 1 vài gợi ý cho những người nước ngoài muốn học tiếng Việt, Về ngữ pháp rất đơn giản. các bạn có thể tự tìm hiểu. Về nghe, nói. Các bạn nên tiếp xúc với người bản xứ. Nói chuyện với họ, nếu có lỗi sai thì nhờ họ sửa giúp là tốt nhất. Nếu tự học, cực kì khó vì chúng tôi có 6 thanh trong phát âm, các bạn nghe không quen và dễ phát âm sai nếu tự học. Vậy thôi.
Hi guys I have a Vietnamese girlfriend and I speak Spanish, Do you know if there’s an Spanish community to learn and work in Vietnam cause I am planning to travel and also live in Hanoi
Mình là người Việt Nam... Xin lỗi vì người Việt Nam chúng tôi cười khi bạn tập nói tiếng Việt....Nhưng đó là vì chúng tôi cảm thấy tự hào và hạnh phúc khi được người nước ngoài quan tâm tới ngôn ngữ của đất nước mình nên chúng tôi cười bởi vì cảm thấy vui chứ không hề có ý chế giễu ai cả
"Phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam" - The hardships of struggling with a violent storm don't compare to the hardships of mastering Vietnamese grammar.
Im out here saying how vietnamese is so easy... not sure bout ThAt anymore. The tones are musst be so difficult for foreigners but I didnt really think about it that much cause I hear them so clearly so I was judging it based on grammar only which isn't fair.
It’s one of the more difficult languages in the world for sure, but definitely doable. You just need to evaluate if learning it well is worth hundreds or thousands of hours. Survival Vietnamese you could probably learn in just a few dozen hours though
I'm a Vietnamese and i have to tell you a important Tip: - If you want to learn Vietnamese,i suggest that you should learn it from the North people. Because sometimes,the way South people speak is not correct and not popular on TV or the Internet. Sorry,i'm not good at English...but i just want to say that they are not the same. For Vietnamese: Mình không có ý chỉ trích hay nói xấu các bạn Miền Nam mà mình chỉ nói vậy vì mình muốn họ đỡ bối rối khi giao tiếp.
I’m from the south and i agree. Southerners are way lazy to speak proper especially those from remote villages. Luân becomes lưng, chân becomes chưng, tay becomes tai, chuyển động becomes chiển động, cái bàn is spoken as cái bàng, múa lân is sometimes pronounced as múa lăng. And so on. I’m from Cần Thơ and really hate when someone calls it Cằn Thơ.
I've read this and also been told by English speaking Vietnamese people in Cambodia that people in the north practically speak a different dialect than the South.
I went to New Zealand to learn English and I practised 4-5 hours a day for 3 months in a language school. It's the most efficient way. Nothing hard about it. it's just being consistent and it works...
I agree with you Patrick. It's not necessarily that the language is inherently super difficult, it's just that for many people their expectations for how fast the language should be picked up makes it difficult for them to remain consistent in their practice.
@@CameronChardukian Yeah i agree with ya, thats a problem.. Vietnamese is labeled a cat. level 3 language next to Chinese and Indian so its not easy like Spanish...HOWEVER< the best and fastest way i've found to learn it and become effective is just going out and speaking... like Nike be on "Just do it" Yo Cameron you in Vietnam still? I live near Phan Thiet..if ya by holla at me, we'll go make trouble and well more trouble ha ha
I am Vietnamese but sometimes I don't understand what Vietnamese people are saying because Vietnam has 3 regions: the west, the south and the north, and 54 other ethnic languages.
I'm a US born-Vietnamese and also born with a stutter. Growing up, some people told me that I was bad at speaking. It turned me off from learning more Vietnamese and improving, but now I want to speak it smoother. I can write it pretty fluently aside from some spelling mistakes. I tried writing down words that I can't translate right away into English, but it hasn't gone to memorization and I'm thinking that reading and doing activities could be more effective. I'm happy that you learned a lot and like this video's positivity :)
Vietnamese language:
- grammar: one of the easiest languages on the planet
- pronunciation: one of the hardest; ex: you can have a sentence of 20 words and each word is totally different vowels, diphthongs, triphthongs and monophthong.
- writing system: Latin (easy and familiar to everyone) and consistent rules (unlike English, a bunch of exceptions, even more than its rules and grammar combined)
Basically it 😎
Đúng rồi đó, tiếng việt dễ nói lắm, nói câu nào ra đa số cũng đúng dù sai ngữ pháp của nước họ nhưng phiên âm thì thôi rồi khỏi nói, đọc hiểu và viết cũng gọi là dễ chứ không khó nhưng đối với mấy người nước ngoài mới học, họ chưa quen với nền văn hóa việt nam nên việc phân biệt từ này từ kia với nhau, cái này cái kia với nhau mới khó :)))))
THANG NAY GIOI
GOOD JOB
Ui chuẩn zl nè
Vocabulary: hardest shit in the world (từ ng Việt Nam nè)
@@adjly1824 vocab của vn mà khó =)))))
I'm Vietnamese and I've never realized how difficult Vietnamese is until I randomly tried a Vietnamese test online :)) I realized it is really hard to explain our grammar and vocabulary to non-native speakers. We don't really have a specific way to indicate tenses and fixed grammar structures as in English, not to mention the spelling and accents on words. It's truly challenging! Good luck with your learning journey and I hope you will see the beauty and prosperity of Vietnamese as we all do ^^. Cố lên!
Same😢
yep. i never realized how autopilot viet grammar was, so i thought it would be easy to foreigners. good thing i speak both semantic and analytic languages so it’s easier to learn other languages
the ak? H ms bik la tieng viet ghe vl
@truong trinh vu teencode bên mình cũng như từ lóng nước ngoài thôi 😐
yeah 💀
I’m a native speaker, but i absolutely understand your pain haha
THANK YOU! This is almost IMPOSSIBLE😂
@@jmtrullinger Yeah, the pronunciations tho
czcams.com/video/CizvhHJ-oGs/video.html
Many Vietnamese do not know:
C + UỜ = CUỜ = QUỜ = QU
QUÔ = CUA
UỜ + Y = UY
UỜ + Ô = UA
UƠ + ÔC = UÔC = UAC
UƠ + IA = UYA
(UỜ + IA) + N = UYÊN
IỂ = IA,
.....
TIẾNG VIỆT = TIÁNG VIẠT!
Need to rewrite UƠ or UỜ is W:
UỜ + Y = W + Y = WY = WI # UI
I’m learning Vietnamese and I would say it’s definitely challenging in ways that other languages I’ve learned have not been. Learning to hear the unusual tones, getting used to the discrepancy between spelling and actual pronunciation... The hardest thing in the US is that many Vietnamese people don’t seem comfortable answering in Vietnamese, and more immersion would really be helpful.
But my ear is already getting used to it, it’s fun when you start hearing meaning instead of just sound. I’ll be happy to get to a basic conversational level so that I can get to know people when I finally go to Vietnam!
Hey sazji you're right on about the tones. Many Vietnamese in Vietnam (arguably the majority) don't seem comfortable answering in Vietnamese either. Keep up the good work! :)
Go to Việt Nam! South will more difficult then the North. It will be hard to hear and respond because it’s always busy and noisy everywhere. Learn to write and pronounce words and that will make it easier to remember.
mình là người Việt Nam
I am Vietnamese. I am studying English . I just want to find a partner who want to study Vietnamese everyday and he/she can help me learn English . Thank you :)
You must also consider that most teachings of vietnamese is in northern accent due to the fact that it's the official but you will definitely struggle with dialects and north and south accents, if interested to help me learn vietnamese reply and leave a WhatsApp or snapchat I'd.
im Vietnamese-American and i’m glad that i grew up knowing and speaking vietnamese.
Xin chào anh ! Tiếng Việt là ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của em và em thấy rất vui khi thấy mọi người cố học ngôn ngữ này . Đây là một ngôn ngữ rất giàu đẹp . !!!
Chao e! Cam on xem video cua anh. Chuc em mot ngay tot dep! :)
Chao
Mạnh cám ơn bạn khuyến khích người nước ngoài học tiếng việt! Mặc dù đọc và viết là dễ hơn nhiều so sánh với nói và nghe tiếng việt
yeah I know what you mean..
Có người VN xem vid người nước ngoài học Tiếng Việt rất thú vị :D
Vietnamese is hard because there’s literally 6 different tones for each word
You're right that the tones are probably the hardest aspect of the language. Thanks for watching Linh! :D Chuc Mung Nam Moi!
No, actually the tilde [~] and question mark [?] are pronounced the same. Vietnamese is easy for you
Thịnh Lâm,
I think the tilde [~] is longer than the question mark[?] I kind of drags the he word out more
Thịnh Lâm nope unless you’re from the South then maybe but in the North, definitely not the same at all.
@@KhanhNguyen-iq1lh Please simplify learning Vietnamese. Question marks and tildes essentially read the same, do not make it harder for them
It’s so interesting that I see this video today. I’m Vietnamese and I’m totally aware of how it is challenging to foreigners. Not only is the pronunciation of all words difficult but Vietnamese people do not speak Vietnamese in the way foreigners are taught or the way Vietnamese language is properly spoken.
I am not sure if I'm a foreigner
I was borned in Vietanm but learnt Mandarin and was raised in Australia
And how do you rate the difficulty of Vietnamese compared to Mandarin?
I was born in America as a Vietnamese, I know barely anything🤧
I'm Vietnamese, and I don't know Vietnamese at all. I've tried learning but it is such a difficult language, especially due to it being a tonal language. I'm actually learning French and Spanish, and my parents are side-eyeing me for learning other languages lol
My problem here is:
I can speak and understand Vietnamese very well
But I cant write it 😩
I’m mixed (German/Vietnam) so I can obviously speak both
I can only read and write a little bit Vietnamese but it’s so fricking difficult YEET
I feel a bit better that I’m not alone. I’m vietnamese and my parents never taught me it so I have to teach it myself.
Yep
oh yes same i’m vietnamese and lost my mothers tongue so i’m trying to learn it to not disappoint my family and elders :’-)
@@composite_armor wait what? How does that work? What language do you speak then?
I’m a Viet kid born in America and it’s still hard for me to balance it, even growing up hearing it. Props to anyone who wants to learn it, it definitely isn’t as easy to pick up as Spanish or French, comparably. Learning Language is like an endurance challenge, and I hope that everyone doesn’t give up!
Right on! :)
I really like how the longest word in my language is only 6 letters in Vietnamese
The longest Vietnamese word is 7 letter long: nghiêng (tilted)
@@vincentho5851 how is that possible, are there many homophones ? (In my language it has 27 letters)
@@guerric This has to do with the structure of the language. Many European languages like English form new words by adding prefixes and suffixes. These are called synthetic languages. Vietnamese is mostly an analytic language, which means we indicate changes in meaning using helper words instead of modifying the original word.
For example, you might notice that Vietnamese doesn't have verb tenses (like 'do' and 'did' in English). Vietnamese tenses are indicated by context (saying the specific time an action takes place), or adding a particle like đã (past) and sẽ (future).
For more on this, check out Tom Scott's video on language typology
czcams.com/video/bxARj07jFp0/video.html
Also, Langfocus's video on languages without verb tenses
czcams.com/video/9XqdvarsGMU/video.html
@@guerric what’s the word?
@@Mary-eo5qb anticonstitutionnellement
For someone who currently is trying to learn Mandarin and in the near future other tonal languages such as Vietnamese and Thai, I find this video extremely encouraging!
Thank you!
Kudos to you, going through that much effort.
Thank you very much Huy :)
Man, I'm wishing I had learned growing up! I'm half Vietnamese and half Puerto Rican, so my parents spoke English in the house. Since my dad was the only one from his family in the US, and most of my friends were black where I was from, I was always a little disconnected from my heritage and never tried to learn. But now that I'm older and trying to learn on my own, I'm finding it extremely difficult and don't know if I can
It is extremely difficult. You can do it, you just need to decide if it’s worth 1,000+ hours of your life if you want to speak it really well! If it isn’t no problem, but if it is just know that it’s only a matter of time before you can speak Vietnamese well provided you consistently put the time in! :D
Good luck man. Meanwhile here i am, learning how to speak english like an american lol.
You are totally on point ! I am studying Vietnamese now and feeling the pain and frustration, I am trying my hardest but sometimes I think it's just not going to happen. I am challenged in more ways than I could have possibly imagined.
You'll get there if you keep putting in the hours! :)
ur young and talented dude... in my age its a diff situation. even my english is bad. but i agree, you can go for coffee and having a good time with the ladys only with basic conversation. they make ur smile
I think that is the case for me. I can relate to you so much because my language partner corrected me multiple times even though I felt like I'm speaking in the correct tone. It was absolutely crazy.
Interesting video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm working on a video about all of the things that are surprisingly easy about Vietnamese as sort of a way to combat that all-too-common idea that it is impossible to learn. Congrats on reaching such a high level of proficiency!
Cool Alicia. Good luck with your channel!
@@CameronChardukian Thanks :))
Well.. I taught my self how to program as a hobby before, so this was encouraging. Thanks.
You can do it!
What makes it additionally hard is the fact that they have no properly recognized pronunciation standard. To take the example of the word book in your video, "sách": In the South (South of Huế) this is pronounced nearly as "shut" (as you pronounced it) and in the North nearly as "sack", both with rising tone. In the North they have had three sound mergers (one of them triple) that causes many homophones and is circumventend by clusters of two equally meaning words (for instance. "tro tan" for ash instead of simply "tro" as this is in the North pronounced equal as "cho").In Germany we have "High German" with just one standard pronunciation. Any pronunciation differing from that is regarded as accent.. And these regional differences concern also the words used in daily conversation. But writing a lot seems to be the best method. I like to take Vietnamese fairy tales, translate them into German and a little afterwards retranslate them into Vietnamese to compare with the original. This improves the reading skill. Tôi thích đọc tranh truyện dân gian Việt Nam rất nhiều! Most rewarding about the Vietnamese language are its fantastically logical combined words.They even have a one syllable word for electricity which can be combined with anything.With more clarity in its pronunciation and lewss homophones and different meanings in one word it could be a world language for all people.
Northern Vietnamese is the official dialect/accent.
there's no official dialect of english either. you just pick one and stick with it. although in many professional settings such as for newscasters, the Hanoi accent has and is considered the "standard", but how people speak in daily life even in Hanoi will differ from the "newscaster dialect" with its overly refined vocabulary and pronunciation.
@@LC-hd5dc No, I do not agree to your opinion to English. I have relatives having moved several times in the USA. There is a standard American English pronunciation widely used in American TV (and apart from that are local varieties such as Southern accent etc.) and there is Oxford English (and apart from that local varieties such as Cockney, Scottish, whatever). These two varieties of standard English have a slightly different vocabulary and a slightly different spelling (which in the American case stemmed from the Webster dictionary that tries to simplify spelling a bit). This is represented also by the phonetic transscription when learning English. But these are two standards of which the Oxford standard is the standard for worldwide conversation.
Thank you for this video. As a fellow Wisconsinite hoping to learn the basics of Vietnamese and feeling a little scared, this really helps.
Best of luck my fellow Wisconsinite! :D
SAME LOL
Awesome video man! Kudos!
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
No problem. There are certainly a fair share of foreigners in Vietnam that speak the language better than I do, but I hope you were able to get some interesting insights from this video :D
Vietnamese has 5 most popular tones and 3 marks on letters, for example with the "a", "o" and "u" characters, we got "á, à, ã, ạ, ả" and "ă-â, ê, ô-ơ, ư"
In Vietnam, we speak it with 3 main accents:
Northern [Sounds really high]
Central [Sounds like when you speak it without tones]
Southern [Sounds lower than the Northern]
Wait,hello Mr.Cameron.I am wondering.Because,when I was at primary school which name: Nguyễn Huệ.I still remember I have an English teacher name Cameron like u.Student like me usually call you by the name:"Thầy Cam",he is a funny teacher,his lessons always funny with students.And he could play guitar too.You made me remember of him☺️
Your video is really helpful, because it shows that learning Vietnamese can be done - if one puts his heart into it...
I started learning Vietnamese a few month ago, tried using some online sources and learn right now "for real" with Duolingo. I like the easy grammar and how sentences are built, I know how the six tones work and begin to hear differences - if spoken slowly. That is my greatest fear right now (next to the right use of personal pronouns for adressing other people) - I think at some point it will be possible to read and understand, to write, to speak (at a basic level). But understanding vietnamese people in normal life (instead of the speakers in learning sources) will be a way more difficult. But well - I'll certainly try.
If you want help, u can practice with me via Skype
This was super helpful thank you!
Thank god I grew up speaking and listening to Vietnamese when I was younger.
Nowadays, I speak only English but thanks to my background, I have a much easier time than most when it comes to Vietnamese pronunciation and recognizing the slight tone differences of the words.
Fellow Wisconsinite here and learning Vietnamese (twice a week over the past 2 years w/teacher). I can fully relate to her making me repeat a word/phrase (that I thought I was speaking correctly) because my usage of the tone is wrong. Sometimes I feel it is impossible, so it's great to hear your encouragement.
Great channel bro!
I appreciate your kind words James.
Thanks for the tip about ankidroid. I just downloaded it and also subscribed. 😎
Thanks a lot Bill -- best of luck!
I learned German to a basic intermediate level and that took me years of dedicated work, (I’m still trying to move forward with that) Vietnamese is the second language I’ve seriously tried to learn, especially since developing a language learning method that works for me. It’s definitely challenging for many reasons but almost any language would take serious hard work for most people to get conversationally fluent and comfortable with it. I believe the human mind is capable of great things but we have to be ok with putting in the time and effort. Also with this said I’m only a few weeks into Vietnamese but I’m working on getting the sounds right first… I had a tutoring session on italki the other day and spent 10 minutes trying to pronounce ng correctly 😅
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
Hey, that's a good video! Many thanks to the author of the channel! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
the Vietnamese language has an average degree of difficulty, but the biggest problem is that there are no really good courses for foreigners who want to learn Vietnamese.
Not surprising because the Vietnamese had more important work to do, such as rebuilding the country and the number of people who want to learn Vietnamese is limited.
An additional problem is that anyone who can speak Vietnamese believes that they can also teach in it.
Subsequently, young people mainly want to practice English with you and practicing your Vietnamese is very difficult. My Vietnamese is very limited but the people around here understand it well. Other Vietnamese look at my Vietnamese friends and ask them what I say. If my friends understand, they should be able to understand it, after all, the Vietnamese themselves all speak a different Vietnamese.
Hey dude, I’m a new subscriber, cool video. I’m currently learning Spanish but want to learn Vietnamese, so I have a little advantage because I work in a Vietnamese community( Westminster, Ca, Little Saigon). Where do I start learning Vietnamese?
I have 3 friends name:Kiên,Bích,Phúc.Oneday I met them going out together.But They dont see me.So I shouted:Hey Phúc,Kiên,Bích
Phúc,Kiên,Bích
Phúc,Kiên,Bích
Fucking Bitch
I miss them so much.We havent met from that day
O’ Graeu Uhp
Impressive! I want to practice daily, but I do not have 2-3 hours a day to commit. Are apps like MANGO, which has visual and audio parts enough, or do I need a live human being to tutor me for learning proper tones?
Vietnamese is hard because of the massive dictionary of complicated words
So true.
As a Vietnamese student, i confirm that very few people have good grades in Vietnamese subject😢
Thanks for sharing the tips - is your Vietnamese Anki deck available?
The reason when you say a word in Vietnamese, and your friend can’t understand it is that you should say a group of words or a whole sentence. A single word doesn’t make any sense in Vietnamese because one has a few meanings.
For example: you said “sách”, and it has a few definitions depending on context. It can be “Sách vở” (book), “sách nhiễu or xách nhiễu” (harass), “lá sách” (tripe, some sort of stomach organ), “cửa sổ lá sách” (jalousie or louvre window).
Đường in Vietnamese has many definitions: đường for cooking means sugar, đường for civil engineer means street, đường for aviation means đường băng (runway at an airport), đường hàng không (airway), in Sino-Vietnamese đường means a court like a front yard (minh đường, tiền đường). It also means lunatic like in “hoang đường”
See, one word in Vietnamese has sophisticated definitions, so next time try to say it in a group of words.
Yep, one year later I’ve found being understood soooo much easier, partially due to better pronunciation but also due to your point about the intended word(s) being more recognizable if the listener has context.
Would you mind linking the anki deck you used? I'm a Vietnamese American and I'm trying to improve. Also congrats on your journey for learning the language!
Hi Cameron, which Anki do you use or can your share yours? Im struggling to find one with just words and sounds, all I find are advanced one with full sentences.
Also, did you go to a proper course, like the one at D1 university or something similar? What are your material to learn?
Cheers, good video nonetheless. Im sort of in your boots, I want to learn vietnamese and Im learning code as well.
100 % honest and very useful
👍🏻
I guess I have 3 more months to go ...
Today I see your video really useful
Learning any new language is always challenging. I am guilty of being a westerner who has lived in VN for quite a while without trying, but I have decided to spend an hour a day during lockdown to try and learn. Trời ơi!
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
Hey man, any chance you could share your Cards/Settings on Anki? It's all pretty confusing for me.
making your deck is almost the main part of the process, and learning thousands words at once with the deck of someone else will kill you ^^
also if you make your cards gradually by picking on the bunch, your deck will reflect your interests and then its not going to be just an irrelevant random list of vocab for you
I wonder if you used any particular listening resources to immerse yourself in the everyday conversations of southern Vietnamese?
Hi! I'm trying to learn vietnamese, but everytime I decide to, I plan steps for me to take but I end up moving from one subject to another.. let's say for example grammar. I move on to another subject, for example pronunciation shortly after. I think this problem for me would be less of an issue if I knew what step I should take first to know basics of vietnamese. I've seen some people say that learning pronunciation of words and alphabet should be the first step, but others have said that learning a variety of basic vietnamese words is the first step. Hearing these things, I don't know which step would get me more advanced. Any advice?
Are you a native English speaker or are you fluent in English? I am Vietnamese. So we can help each other improve the language. You can ask me any questions about Vietnamese. I am really happy to help you.
Hi Cameron, did you learn Southern or Northern Vietnamesese? I'm considering learning Viet in the future but I don't know which one to learn...
Hey Rory, I speak mostly Southern Vietnamese as I've spent most of my time in Saigon. Maybe you can do some research to see which part of the country seem slike a good place to live/visit and that can help you to decide! :)
What do you do? Where do you live? What kind of Viet do you speak, Northern or Southern?
Vietnam or Cuba are my two choices for places to move in a few years. Cuba has a lot of advantages like geography and cost of living, but Vietnam has weed (which is big for me) and a lot of travel opportunity. I also know that most English speakers would say Spanish is easier than Vietnamese, and neither language is just overnight of course, but for some reason I just hate practicing Spanish with an insane passion.
It certainly is worth it for me it is a hard language but I love the culture country people etc..😅
I am interested in learning Vietnamese everyday culture, especially how they see things differently from westerners. Jokes are usually good at showing cultural differences, including what the people find funny.
Chào bạn, mình là người Việt Nam. Khi thấy bạn học ngôn ngữ của nước mình, mình cảm thấy rất vui, và mình cũng đang học ngôn ngữ của bạn 💌
Chào bạn! Mình cảm thấy rất vui khi đọc bình luận của bạn. Cảm ơn rất nhiều xem video của mình. Chúc mừng năm mới! :D
I am leanrning Vietnamese and I have to say it is really difficult but if you already have some knowledge about Chinese like me,you will make progress in learning Vietnamese much easier.
True. Knowing Chinese beforehand is a powerful tool to learn Vietnamese. And if you can take advantage of the Sino-Vietnamese (Hán-Việt) system, then great. Like knowing French and Latin does help with understanding English (though not 100%, of course). Chinese ---> Vietnamese (Northern dialect) ---> Vietnamese (Southern dialect) is a worthwhile journey in my opinion. But if you only want to learn Vietnamese, just get straight to it.
It would be nice to mention what dialect you learned, so that it does not confuse other learners :)
Studying a new language is really challange for all us.I'm Vietnamese who also learn English as well as you study my country 's language. I spend at least 2 hours countinuely reapeating but not any good results to me. There are many different about grammar , the way of pronunciation and expression emotion of words every where also not the same.It cause losing time to do it and i feel a bit depression in my brain
Tourists to Thailand seem to aquire a dozen or so words after just a few days it seems. It's a cute sounding accessible language with a "coherent" native alphabet.
Actually, Vietnamese is really difficult cause as a native speaker, just a few people can understand me when i talk with my different accent from others.
Here comes a native Korean speaker watching this video haha bạn chưa đoán trường hợp này đúng không kk cảm ơn nhiều, video này rất thú vị
thanks
Am vietnamese even we do not understand each othher, things are need to understand daily communication. One thing we can explain in many ways. Same language but people in North VN not understand middle of Vietnam what they say
Ôi, anh chăm vậy viết quyển vở trông chằng chịt quá! Em học tiếng Anh cũng không khổ thế.
^ Vietnam boi
i pretty much speak English even know im vietnam , sometime i heard "Xin chào" is like "Xin Chảo" while watching other vid game
when i came to vietnam to live and work i learned vietnamese but when i learned it was not easy at all
People seem to understand my bad attempts at Vietnamese everywhere I go these days. It took much longer to get to an equivalent point in Chinese.
can you share your anki deck?
Vietnamese vowels are so complicated, and consonants are hard to distinguish as well. Even today I still have no idea what're the differences between "d" and "r", "q" and "k", " đ" and "t" as well as "ch" and "tr", and why "kh" sometimes sounds like "h" sound? OMG so many questions I don't know😭
Maybe my ears are just decorations of my head.🙃
I'm from EasTimor' and now I'm study at Vietnam. And I'm try to study at vietnamese language, for me it's very diffucult to learn vietnamese!
Dude, which exact Anki app? There’s literally 7 of them!?
I think Ankidroid
As many have mentioned the main issue is the phonics...grammar is retardedly easy and vocab is quite easy since most are max 2 syllables but those phonics...dayumn. I can't remember the sound of the words (yet) because I can't even conceptualise them.
I am Vietnamese. I am studying English . I just want to find a partner who want to study Vietnamese everyday and he/she can help me learn English . Thank you :)
How much have you improved English in 7months?
I'm vietnamese boy. I'm beginer studying English and really want to practice English everyday. If you want to learn Vietnamese also. I can teach you. We are improve together. I'm in Ha Noi.
I’m Vietnamese and think it’s so easy but people who are not Vietnamese say it’s soo hard
Great video. What are "inkey & quizlet"?
Thanks Brandon. Anki is a spaced repetition system app. Quizlet is also a bit of an SRS app. Basically, they try to show you your flashcard right before they expect you to forget it in order to maximize your retention.
@@CameronChardukian I'll check it out. Thanks for the reply and keep up the great work!
Which Anki set of cards did you download?
Wait i don't understand. So he wrote the Vietnamese word elephant for an hour? How does that make sense? Then he says an hour or two writing and an hour or two practicing tonal. That's up to 4 hours a day
xin chao, ban rat la gioi va toi tin, ban se co the lam hon ca nguoi khac\\ co len
Tôi là người Việt Nam, tôi có 1 vài gợi ý cho những người nước ngoài muốn học tiếng Việt,
Về ngữ pháp rất đơn giản. các bạn có thể tự tìm hiểu.
Về nghe, nói. Các bạn nên tiếp xúc với người bản xứ. Nói chuyện với họ, nếu có lỗi sai thì nhờ họ sửa giúp là tốt nhất. Nếu tự học, cực kì khó vì chúng tôi có 6 thanh trong phát âm, các bạn nghe không quen và dễ phát âm sai nếu tự học. Vậy thôi.
Damn ._. I didn’t realise
Im from Vietnam and I knew how to speak it but now I like completely forgot Im trying to speak it again
Hi guys I have a Vietnamese girlfriend and I speak Spanish, Do you know if there’s an Spanish community to learn and work in Vietnam cause I am planning to travel and also live in Hanoi
Check out the application "Tandem". Good luck!
Is it just me or does Vietnamese look like a glitched out english keyboard lol
as a vietnamese i agree with this
@@nxqnoh2271 haha
:D You should make a video speaking fully Vietnamese, Cameron.
Yup I’m from 🇻🇳 and I’m trying to learn Vietnamese, right it and say it XD
Mình là người Việt Nam... Xin lỗi vì người Việt Nam chúng tôi cười khi bạn tập nói tiếng Việt....Nhưng đó là vì chúng tôi cảm thấy tự hào và hạnh phúc khi được người nước ngoài quan tâm tới ngôn ngữ của đất nước mình nên chúng tôi cười bởi vì cảm thấy vui chứ không hề có ý chế giễu ai cả
"Phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam" - The hardships of struggling with a violent storm don't
compare to the hardships of mastering Vietnamese grammar.
Pfft, try Polish grammar.
Im out here saying how vietnamese is so easy... not sure bout ThAt anymore. The tones are musst be so difficult for foreigners but I didnt really think about it that much cause I hear them so clearly so I was judging it based on grammar only which isn't fair.
I will travel to work in Vietnam but i need to learn language of Vietnam.. Is it very difficult?!?
It’s one of the more difficult languages in the world for sure, but definitely doable. You just need to evaluate if learning it well is worth hundreds or thousands of hours. Survival Vietnamese you could probably learn in just a few dozen hours though
I'm a Vietnamese and i have to tell you a important Tip:
- If you want to learn Vietnamese,i suggest that you should learn it from the North people.
Because sometimes,the way South people speak is not correct and not popular on TV or the Internet.
Sorry,i'm not good at English...but i just want to say that they are not the same.
For Vietnamese:
Mình không có ý chỉ trích hay nói xấu các bạn Miền Nam mà mình chỉ nói vậy vì mình muốn họ đỡ bối rối khi giao tiếp.
ahhhhh.... but we near cao lãnh.... i know what u talk hehe. very hard but also funny.
I’m from the south and i agree. Southerners are way lazy to speak proper especially those from remote villages. Luân becomes lưng, chân becomes chưng, tay becomes tai, chuyển động becomes chiển động, cái bàn is spoken as cái bàng, múa lân is sometimes pronounced as múa lăng. And so on. I’m from Cần Thơ and really hate when someone calls it Cằn Thơ.
@@MinhNguyen-ff6xf boi u hate ppl for their pronunciation... creep
hk Sometimes I do but I don’t think it’s any sort of creepy.
I've read this and also been told by English speaking Vietnamese people in Cambodia that people in the north practically speak a different dialect than the South.
I'm from America, but my parents are native vietnamese so my vocal cords are still wired with a native tongue.
I went to New Zealand to learn English and I practised 4-5 hours a day for 3 months in a language school. It's the most efficient way. Nothing hard about it. it's just being consistent and it works...
I agree with you Patrick. It's not necessarily that the language is inherently super difficult, it's just that for many people their expectations for how fast the language should be picked up makes it difficult for them to remain consistent in their practice.
@@CameronChardukian Yeah i agree with ya, thats a problem.. Vietnamese is labeled a cat. level 3 language next to Chinese and Indian
so its not easy like Spanish...HOWEVER< the best and fastest way i've found to learn it and become effective is just going out and speaking...
like Nike be on "Just do it"
Yo Cameron you in Vietnam still? I live near Phan Thiet..if ya by holla at me, we'll go make trouble and well more trouble ha ha
I think Vietnamese so easy to learn .
Learning how to rhyme in Vietnamese, you can read any word in Vietnamese already.
Bạn người Mỹ, nhưng accent của bạn mang hơi hướng British English, ko biết tôi nhận xét thế có đúng ko
I am Vietnamese but sometimes I don't understand what Vietnamese people are saying because Vietnam has 3 regions: the west, the south and the north, and 54 other ethnic languages.
I can confirm to you that you are awsome
Thank you for your kind words :)
Hi. I'm Vietnamese ❤
I’m Vietnamese. If you want to learn Vietnamese, I can teach you. Can you help me to practice my English?
whats your snapchat?
Let contact my Line ID: hoangbaovyk9a
i’m viet and have no idea how to speak viet:(
Cố lên!!!
The best way to learn Vietnamese is u need have a Vietnamese boy/girl friend :)))
I'm a US born-Vietnamese and also born with a stutter. Growing up, some people told me that I was bad at speaking. It turned me off from learning more Vietnamese and improving, but now I want to speak it smoother. I can write it pretty fluently aside from some spelling mistakes. I tried writing down words that I can't translate right away into English, but it hasn't gone to memorization and I'm thinking that reading and doing activities could be more effective. I'm happy that you learned a lot and like this video's positivity :)
Thanks a lot Christina. Best of luck on your learning journey! :D
@@CameronChardukian Np 😄 Thank you!!