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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 17 of 25 01 September 2012 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha ha! Oh that is wild! Maybe there is a long , lost, ancient link between the two! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 25 03 September 2012 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a video of me after 2 weeks:
Vietnamese after 2 weeks Feel free to criticize! 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 19 of 25 04 September 2012 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm impressed!
After only two weeks and 30 minutes each day. Wow! Hmm, maybe I should try the Assimil course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 20 of 25 07 September 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm on Lesson 18 but this week things have slowed down quite a bit. I feel like it is a bit of the 3 weeks forward, 1
week back phenomenon. It is taking much longer to get through each unit. Not too worried though, I'm still having fun and I'll keep plugging along! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pigsonfire Newbie United States Joined 5068 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Cantonese | Message 21 of 25 08 September 2012 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
Keep at it! I'm doing Assimil Vietnamese as well, on lesson 10! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chrisphillips71 Groupie United States Joined 5229 days ago 64 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 22 of 25 12 September 2012 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Liddytime,
Your accent sounds good to me, like what I hear when I am around my wife's family. I am amazed that you can produce this after only two weeks. However, I still want to get my wife's thoughts. Am I correct that you studied Chinese before? If so, I imagine that greatly helped your ability to produce the proper tones. Keep up the good work. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 23 of 25 14 September 2012 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks! I did study some Chinese and although Chinese is also tonal, the Vietnamese tones are (IMO) more challenging than Chinese. The "low tone" of Vietnamese is more of a glottal stop that cuts off the last sound of the word and in Vietnamese there are 2 "falling-rising" tones; one is "cut off' and the other is not. Vietnamese is also more "staccato" than Mandarin. To my ear, it sounds much more like Cantonese than Mandarin. To my dismay, today I discovered that the 6-week challenge has ended. I clearly got into it late. I will, however, continue to trudge through Assimil. My goal is to complete it by the end of the year! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| audiophile Groupie United States Joined 5109 days ago 44 posts - 81 votes Studies: French | Message 24 of 25 09 November 2012 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Your pronunication is excellent. It's amazing that you can pull together all the Assmil pieces in that video. I studied Vietnamese for two weeks and think it is the easiest language to read for a Chinese(if bilingual text is provided). I think a fun way to understand Vietnamese is by finding the classic Chinese equivalent words, trying to "map" it. For example:
Mr. What is your name? My name is Ho. What is your family- name? My surname is Pham. What is your work? I am a journalist. What about that woman? What is her name? Her name is Tran Thin Lan. She is also a journalist, isn't she? No She is a teacher. Ông tên là gì? 翁名乃其？ Tên tôi là Hồ. 名我乃何 Ông họ là gì? 翁号乃其？ Họ là Phạm. 号乃范 Ông việc của là gì? 翁职业乃其？ Tôi là nhà báo. 我乃日报 Ve cô ấy ? Tên cô ấy là gì? Ve姑也？姑也乃其？ Tên cô ấy là Trần Thìn Lan. 名姑也乃阮馨兰 Cô cũng là nhà báo, không phải? 姑共乃日报，空否？ Không ,cô ấy là giáo viên. 空，姑也乃教员 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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