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Anh Pham Tanner Phan
CLBR 091
KSUB Oral
First
Language Lesson - Final Draft
10/28/2011
ietnamese Lesson for Foreigners
Anh Xin
chao
cac blZln hlllc sinh
Seattle
University.
Tanner That means
Good
Morning
Students
of Seattle
University.
Tanner
Thanks
to Ms
Hepfer,
we
were given
10 minutes on
the
radio
to
speak
to
you about
the
Vietnamese
culture our favorite holiday as well as
the
Vietnamese
language compared to
English.
Anh But
hold
on Tanner we'll need to
introduce
ourselves first.
My
name is Anh
Pham. I'm
an
international
student
from Hanoi, Vietnam. I
came
to
the
U S
about
2
years
ago.
Tanner And my
name
is
Tanner
Phan. Ten years ago, I came to America from
Saigon, Vietnam, to live
with my mother.
Tanner So Anh, how long have you been speaking English?
Anh About 12 years I started in the first grade.
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Tanner
Oh So it
was
it an extra class that
your
parents forced you to take?
Anh No,
it was a mandatory class for my school.
Tanner
So
what
were some of the difficulties you faced when you first learn
English?
Anh
Hmmmm, I
would say
grammar was the most
difficult
then
comes
memorization of words because I
was
not using English on a daily basis.
Tanner
I understand what you mean Anh. When I first learned English I continued
running
in
trouble
with using past tense. In Vietnamese,
we
don t have to change the
form of verbs to a past tense to notify that
the
action
was already
done. For instance,
if you wanted to say
ii
ate
how
you say this in Vietnamese Anh?
Anh
iTai
d
an,
where
da indicates
that
you have
already
eaten.
Tanner
So if you wanted to
say
something that you did,
you
would
have
to
put
the
word
lida
before
the
verb
but
is
that the
only
word?
Anh:
No,
that s not the only word. There re more terms such as da or da
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Tanner
I
had
a really hard time adapting to the
order
of my
name.
In Vietnamese,
my
name
would be Phan Tanner; last
name
is followed by first name.
Anh
Yeah well I
think
it's
more than
that;
the
structure
of sentences
is different
as
well. In Vietnamese, adject ives come after the nouns whereas in English the
adjective
goes
in front of the nouns. For example, in
American
English you would
say it's the red car, but in Vietnamese you would say chiElc xe dl'll. In direct
translation it means it's
the car
red.
Tanner
Wow,
that
sounds really awkward to
me
it's
the car
red. Now, I have more
appreciation
for
elderly people learning
English.
My grandmother who
is now in
her
mid
60s, lived in Hanoi most
of her
life. She
came to
America
13
years ago
and
still has trouble with English.
Anh
It's
understandable; research shows that
the best
time
to
learn
a
second
language is about
11-13 years
age.
Anh
Tanner why do you
seem
so excited? What are
you
smiling about?
Tanner
I am, definitely. I
just remember
Vietnamese
New Year also
known
as
TlZIt
is coming up. TlZIt is different from
the
New Year in
the US and many other countries
because
it occurs
at the end of January or at
the beginning
of February.
This is a
time
for Vietnamese people to visit their families, relatives, and friends,
and as some
of
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you
might
know,
it's also a time when we give lucky money to children and our
elders.
Anh
In the
Vietnamese culture people
don't
just say
Happy New Year
but they
would also wish happiness,
success and wealth
for
the
New Year.
Tanner Wow
really? I
learn something new
from you
everyday
Anh.
So how you
would
you say
that in
Vietnamese?
Anh
"Chuc
mlZlng nam mlZli
which
means Happy
New Year" and followed
by
"An
khang
thlZlnh vlZllZlng
to wish people a
happy,
successful and
wealthy year.
Tanner
Very nice To digress, I
would
like to tell you
that
Vietnam is
categorized as
high power
distance, what
mean
by
that is that as a younger citizen, you must.
always show respect to people who seem older
than
yourself regardless if you know
the person or
not.
Anh
I
agree, when
I
was younger my
family
would always
correct
the way
I speak
to
older
people.
For
example: when
my
grandfather asked
me
if I
wanted
some rice,
in English, a
simple
"yes"
would
be
acceptable,
but
"yes, please"
would
be more
polite. But in Vietnamese, if I
was
to
answer
"co" only
which means
yes, it
would be
a
very disrespectful response to older people and not acceptable. Instead, I would say
dlZl co."
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Tanner Let's talk
about
the food, Anh. Our country has a lot of delicious
traditional
meals. My favorite is "phoe".
Anh Wait, "phoe?" You mean the
Vietnamese noodle
soup? It's actually pronounced
phlZl. And
thank
you, Tanner, you just showed us a common mistake foreigners
make.
They always
call
it
"phoe" instead of
phlZl.
Tanner
Yeah, I
guess since
I have lived in the States for a while, I ve
gotten
used to
the way people
call
it
here.
Anh Alright, that's a good excuse. In addition
to
what we
have
discussed, I
cannot
help but say that Vietnamese people are very hospitable. We love and welcome
people from all over the world. Coming to Vietnam, you will
see
that our country is
very special and cultural.
Tanner
You are absolutely right
Therefore,
today, Anh
and would
like to
teach
you some helpful phrases that
you
can
use
when you visit Vietnam. To
say
"Hello" in
Vietnamese
in a very
polite and respectful
way, it's "Xin chao." To say
Thank
you,"
it's "Cam IZIn.
Anh Oh,
you
know
what,
our
10
minutes
have just gone
by. Tanner
and
I would like
thank all of you for listening to
our lesson
on the Vietnamese culture, our favorite
holiday as weJI the Vietnamese language compared to English.
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Tanner:
Chao tlZlm bmt va hilln gl1lp lilli.
Anh
Farewell
Past Tense
English Vietnamese
Structure
te
Toi an
I e t
I ran Toi chilly I run
I
s ng
Toi vlZla
h t
vlZla sing
Adjectives Nouns
English Vietnamese
Structure
The red car
ChilZlc
xe alZl The car red
The
pretty
girl
Co
gai xinh
The girl pretty
The pink house Nha mau hlZlng
The house pink
Respect
English Vietnamese
Respectful Disrespectful
Yes
C6
Disrespectful
Yes please IZI c6
Respectful
No Khong
Disrespectful
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No thanks
DI l
kh ng
Respectful
ommon Phrases
English
Vietnamese
Hello
Xin
chao
How are you?
B[7]n
co kh[7]e
kh ng?
Welcome Chao
m[7]ng
Thank you
Cam
[7]n
Goodbye
T[7]m
bi[7]t