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Many people who learn Vietnamese will learn or will want to learn the Vietnamese of the northern dialect (Hanoi) but when they encounter people from the South there may be some confusion such as with the way some tones and vowels are pronounced. Here are some things I have noticed at least among some […]
If you’ve ever used any speech recognition software you’ll know that the state of the art in this field is still far from perfect, far from the performance of a real human being. Even with big players like IBM and Microsoft, with the latter including speech recognition in its Vista operating system, speech recognition […]
It is now the new year in Vietnam, Tết Nguyên Đán, Feast of the First Morning. It is a huge holiday celebrated for several days and much time is spent with family making it somewhat of a lonely time for foreigners in Vietnam. However, everybody, Happy New Year!
In Vietnamese they would say Chúc Mừng Năm […]
I find that I can learn a language much more rapidly once I’m able to read in that language because it allows you to subconsciously pick up grammar and contextual vocabulary and you can sometimes pick up the meaning of a word you don’t already know without having to look it up in a dictionary. […]
On spelling Vietnamese there is one more language hack I wanted to mention:
since ơ and â are basically longer in shorter versions of the same vowel and so are i and y you will only find ơ and i paired together and â and y paired together. Long plus short and short plus long. […]
Language hack:
Spelling Vietnamese is difficult. It’s difficult because it’s hard to understand and differentiate between vowels and it’s difficult because there are many ways to write the same consonant sound. For example, in the south of Vietnam they pronounce gi, d, and v the same — as y. There are some tricks […]
Here’s a tip for learning foreign languages. To make classes or lessons, even when self-taught, go by much quicker and more easily you should have the vocabulary down. That way when you’re reading something you don’t get caught up trying to either figure out the meaning or look it up. Instead you […]
This is a continuation of learning the Vietnamese vowels system which began with a Vietnamese pronunciation guide with audio samples of the six tones. Diphthongs will be covered later.
Vietnamese is supposed to be a monosyllabic language like Chinese, where the language got a lot of influence. In practice many words are actually more […]
What more effective way is there to learn a language than to have a teacher knowledgeable in the language on hand to tutor you and answer all of your questions. And when learning Vietnamese in Vietnam it’s also quite affordable. Information about language schools for learning Vietnamese while in Hanoi can be hard to find […]
If you’re just learning Vietnamese one of the first problems you will encounter are the six tones (depending on the dialect) especially if you come from English or another language where tone does not change the meaning of a word. I posted previously a utility to practice hearing the different Vietnamese tones but I have […]
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