Can Vietnamese people understand song lyrics in their language?
No, it's true. I speak fluent Vietnamese, yet if you play one of those V-Pop songs like from 365daband or something then it's equivalent of an English native who took a year or 2 of a Spanish class and then listening to a Spanish song. The type of songs that Vietnamese language is truly meant for is traditional, where all the tones are expressed clearly. It's possible to translate those types of songs, but you have to be very skilled at understanding Vietnamese with minimal tone. I've listened enough to where I can translate the slower non-tonal songs, but it's still rather difficult. The best method is to anticipate phrases that you are familiar with. BTW, Chinese has 4 tones; Vietnamese has 6. Plus, Chinese words are different due to spelling more than tones, unlike Vietnamese. For example, co → to retract cò → crane, stork có → yes, to have cỏ → grass cõ → (no meaning) cọ → to scrub Then there's variations of o like ô and ơ which then gets the same 6 tonal treatment and result in a plethora of different words. I hope you get the idea. This would account for the difficulty in understanding non-tonal Vietnamese.
Need help understanding history Question?
what is the question looking for? what does is want me to answer with? help with the answer? Assess the following rendition of President Ronald Reagan’s history of the Vietnam War for its historical accuracy. “If I recall correctly, when France gave up Indochina as a colony, the leading nations of the world met in Geneva [Switzerland] with regard to helping those colonies become independent nations. And since North and South Vietnam had been, previous to colonization, two separate countries, provisions were made that these two countries could by a vote of all their people together, decided whether they wanted to be one country or not. “ And there wasn’t anything surreptitious about it, that when Ho Chi Minh refused to participate in such an election—and there was provision that people of both countries could cross the border and live in the other country if they wanted to. And when they began leaving by the thousands and thousands from North Vietnam to live in South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh closed the border and again violated that part of the agreement. And openly, our country sent military advisers, there to help a country which had been a colony have such things as a national security force, an army, you might say, or a military to defend itself. And they were doing this, if I recall correctly, also in civilian clothes, no weapons, until they began being blown up where they lived and walking down the street by people riding by on bicycles and throwing pipe bombs at them. And then they were permitted to carry side-arms or wear uniforms. But it was totally a program until John F. Kennedy—when these attacks and forays became so great that John F. Kennedy authorized the sending in of a division of Marines. Ant that was the first move toward combat troops in Vietnam”
Can Hmong people understand Vietnamese?
Not at all true. Hmong is part of a completely different family of languages than Vietnamese. Besides other languages classified as Hmong, the languages classified as Miao (mostly in China) also are part of the same language family, and are fairly mutually intelligible, This means that a Hmong person from Thailand could communicate fairly easily with a Miao person from China, or another Hmong person from Vietnam or Laos, although they might speak very different dialects. You may be confusing Hmong with Muong, a language spoken in southern China which is very closely related to Vietnamese. The only other languages closely related to Vietnamese are Cambodian, and interestingly enough, a couple of local languages in the far eastern states of India.
How do i relearn Vietnamese?
Immerse yourself in it! Ever wonder how when some people live in a foreign country for a couple months, they come out fluent in the language? It's because the human brain recognizes the need to communicate is vital to survival and you will automatically pick up gramme, vocabulary and develop your accent. Same thing applies here. Since i doubt you can spend a couple months in Vietnam you can use these alternatives instead. - Listen to it. SInce your parents are Vietnamese, Im sure they would have some videos you could use and CDs you could listen to. also there are many Vietnamese resources avaiable on the web! - Practice it. This will help you retain the language easier, and make conversation easier. - Read it. Im not sure if you can read it. But if you can that is a pluse. With reading you can pick up vocab and grammer. These are the key aspects in learning any language. It will be hard at first, but will be alot easier as you progress. Good Luck! I also recommend this series of language software program called 'The Rosetta Stone'. It does have Vietnamese. It's an exceptional program that integrates everything above.
I think few Canadians have a detailed understanding of the Vietnam War and think of it mainly as an American proxy war with the Soviet Union, one which most Americans would rather forget. It is not something we study at school (at least I didn't, though it was going on while I was a young child). All I really knew about it was what the paramilitary kids at school would say. You know, the ones who would walk around in fatigues and steal school equipment for their survival shelters. What I did understand is it was often depicted as one of the most horrid, inhumane and pointless wars in modern U.S. history, having infected everyone it touched. As such, I think most Canadians feel a complete disconnect from the war. We don’t think it was our war to fight.We are justly proud of our commitment to global peace and the wars we have intervened in, and our discretion from entering wars where don’t feel we can justly contribute towards an ultimate peace. Canada’s official role in Vietnam was, as a supposedly neutral country, to work towards preserving the peace between the North and South between 1954 and 1973 as part of the International Commission for Supervision and Control. And while that mission may have ultimately failed, it may have delayed the onset of the war.That is how Canada benefits the United States. In our traditional role as peace keeper, Canada has been trusted to act as an intermediary between belligerents in cases where perhaps the United States would not. In recent years, Canada’s discretionary nature has been questioned, but so long as we do continue to make prudent choices in our military deployments we provide an additional diplomatic resource the U.S. wouldn't otherwise have.
When I was in the U.S a Vietnamese Pho restaurant was our alternative choice of food if we got tired of Chinese restaurants. Sometimes when we were enjoying Phos the TV in that restaurant, the Vietnamese version of Chinese dramas were played on TV, so as the Chinese songs. That made us (the Chinese students) naturally thinking that since they loved the Chinese stuffs, we might likely become friends with the Vietnamese restautrant owner, like we did with the owners of Chinese restaurants.But the Vietnamese waitress was really cold to us and didn’t seem like to chat with us. I never figured out why until I came to Quora.90% of the Chinese in China also don’t know that Vietnamese openly or secretly hate them. They would feel very flattered to know Vietnamese audiences love Chinese stuffs, so they would think this love should be a reciprocate one.However in recent years Chinese people get to know that Chinese tourists are often mistreated in the Vietnamese customs for additional tips(briberies) or get cheated in Vietnam because they are Chinese, the general impression drops sharply after these incidences.Later there was the South China sea dispute, several Taiwanese were killed in the protest. That sounds horrible.Think that, Japanese tourists have never faced such kind of systematic discrimination or bullying when they visit China. No Japanese got hurt in China after Diaoyu Island dispute.So I guess the public attitude toward Vietnam now is not good.Sometime ago I knew it from Quora that Vietnamese citizens and American Vietamese citizens were marching to protest Chinese government for their plan of Special economic zones.Cannot figure out why, cause Chinese government is just plannig to upgrade Hainan province to a special economic zone and rent it to foreign investors.
Use back chinese words for vietnamese, probably it will do (more or less know each other text to some extent). Communication is important to promote understanding. Why not the other way round? this is because the nature of chinese words, many meaning in same word when paired differently, many words sound the same.Another obstracle is both nations school scyllabus already not friendly to each other, promoting hatred wouldnt help, human are dumb enough and prone to brainwash (same case as Chinese-Japanese, stop deny or exaggerate everything in the past to promote patriotism). Anyway, more dumb citizen is, easier a government to handle, please learn from US about how to brainwash intelligently.Both Chinese and Vietnamese are once getting into deep humiliation (thousand years of chinese admistration in vietnam, hundred years of humiliation of Chinese by the west), some sort of inferiority complex developed and behave almost similarly. How to impose awareness on neighbour alliance is difficult, 唇亡齿寒 (Japanese and Korean also same), if behavior on inferiority complex still widely in citizens mind.
How to say my name in vietnamese?
In Vietnamese, there are no sound such as "dr" so it will be much easier for people if you say your name is Andy. As the others suggested, simply say "Tôi tên là Andy" or "Tôi tên Andy" or "Tên tôi là Andy", whichever is alright. I understand in Vietnamese, if you pronounce Andy into "Ăn đi", it will literally mean "please eat". So, just say your name in English spelling, people will then recognize your name.
History help please.I really don't understand it.?
Ho Chi Mihn asked the United States for help but the US refused. The United States believed that the Vietnam would side with the Soviet Union and other socialist counterparts. The United States and Soviet Union had a bad relationship during the cold war. Ho Chi even told the US that he would not allow the Soviets to control Vietnam and instead it would be purely Vietnamese. The US still refused. The major reasoning for refusing to aid the Vietnamese and then later fighting against Ho Chi in the Vietnam war was the "Domino Theory". The US believed if one nation in the South Asian Pacific fell to communism then the others would fall into instability and fall to the reds as well. So I say "4" it is because of the Domino Theory