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| ElfoEscuro Diglot Senior Member United States cyworld.com/brahmapu Joined 6293 days ago 408 posts - 423 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 9 of 41 27 August 2008 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||
You should listen to to both and decide for yourself. I find Thai to be very appealing while I don't really like Vietnamese.
This depends entirely on you. Are you planning on living in Thailand or Vietnam? Are you planning on dealing with Thai or Vietnamese people?
It's an abugida. It's easier to learn than it looks. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| TKK Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5952 days ago 55 posts - 58 votes | Message 10 of 41 27 August 2008 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Please click them to listen carefully.
Thai Vietnamese Edited by TKK on 27 August 2008 at 1:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6925 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian | Message 11 of 41 28 August 2008 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Check out this video with polyglot Stu Jay Raj:
http://stujay.blogspot.com/2007/03/stuart-jay-raj-joh-jai-tv -appearance-1.html He speaks Thai in it, and discusses learning languages. Very interesting. Personally I like the sound of Thai, but not the sound of Vietnamese. Check out the Thai rock band "Bodyslam". They're pretty good. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| gorkem_turkish Triglot Newbie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5820 days ago 25 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English, Mandarin Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 41 26 December 2008 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
there is no such page. maybe you should check the link again 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 41 05 January 2009 at 9:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
delete the space after "tv" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vingrau Tetraglot Newbie Vietnam Joined 5727 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English, German, Russian | Message 14 of 41 25 March 2009 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You can listen to some Vietnamese from the movie "Ultra Violet".
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| SlickAs Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5881 days ago 185 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Swedish Studies: Thai, Vietnamese | Message 15 of 41 27 March 2009 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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As someone who has studied both languages, Thai is easier in its spoken form. But the alphabet is a massive hurdle. Sentences are not broken up into words, so you need to recognise the individual words (and therefore recognise where one word ends and the next begins) to be able to make sense of a alphabetic string. Vietnamese is written in this roman Alphabet. Vietnamese is monosymbolic, every word is a single sylable, Thai is more comprehensible.
The Vietnamese are immigrants. You will find Vietnamese in any major city in Australia, Canada, USA. The Thai's avoided both IndoChina wars, were never put into "re-education camps", have not had a reason to flee on leaky boats and are not a major immigrant group (beyond Thai wives). As countries they are equals. Both major powers in the region over the last few centuries. In Thailand the people smile and are friendly and want to make friends with you and are special, in Vietnam the people are industious and business like. Both cuisines are extremely tasty, but Thai is more unique (in that Vietnamese is fresh and subtle like southern China ... Thai is strong and not-subtle). So it depends on which country you want a relationship with. What your immigrant community is like. Speaking frankly, as much as I love the Vietnamese, the Thai are special. Special beyond India or China or Nepal or any other Asian country. But their language is hardly worth learning since there is no immigrant community and any Thai businesses will hire English speakers on their end. You will never speak Thai at home ... it is something for travel only. Vietnamese is something you can use. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 41 28 March 2009 at 6:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
80+ million speakers of Vietnamese 60-65 million speakers of Thai 1 person has voted this message useful |
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