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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4819 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 1 of 1 12 April 2012 at 11:34pm | IP Logged |
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Why no Vietnamese yet?
I can start something, but my English is not of the best sort. INTRODUCTION Vietnamese is a language spoken by Vietnamese people, belonging to Mon_Khmer language family. USEFULNESS Vietnam is still a poor country, but it has a big population and bright future (according to econimic development) CHIC FACTOR Not a lot, unlike CJK, Vietnamese culture is largely unknown outside the country. It uses Latin script, so some people may assume that it is 'not so hard', and will not be so impressed by you learning it, even if it is not really so easy. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE Not a lot yet. TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES VIetnam has a lot to offer cofr tourists, I think. COUNTRIES Vietnam, USA, France etc (in Poland VIetnamese are the largst Asian community) SPEAKERS 81 MLN VARIATIONS A lot time has passed since the conquerring of Southern Vietnam by Communist North, but still you will find language resources for both varieties, Northern is more popular however, as it is languge promoted by the government. There is also Hue dialect, but it is not commonly studied. CULTURE A long history. DIFFICULTIES GRAMMAR The VIetnamese grammar is very simple, there is only one irregular verb (to be) that has unexpected negative. PRONUNCIATION No text yet. VOCABULARY No text yet. TRANSPARENCY Vietnamese is not close enough to any popular language spoken today, Khmer is said to be related but it's a distant relative. Knowing some Chinese, however, can prove useful, especially Cantonese, since Vietnamese has borrowed a lot of vocabulary in the past from China. SPELLING No text yet. TIME NEEDED No text yet. BOOKS No text yet. SCHOOLS No text yet. LINKS No text yet. Edited by clumsy on 12 April 2012 at 11:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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