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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