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| Hello everyone! I'm Linh. |
| It's a pleasure to meet you again today. |
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| Hi guys, it's Linh again. Welcome back to VietnamesePod101.com. |
| And I'm happy to see you guys again. |
| So this video is for you in case you want to ask another person to repeat what they said in Vietnamese. |
| And you want to show whether you're eager to learn Vietnamese. |
| And probably you want to try to communicate with a Vietnamese. |
| So today I'm going to share with you some survival phrases so that you can use in this kind of situations. |
| Let's get started. |
| If you want to say, how do you say this in Vietnamese, we say... |
| That means how do you say this in Vietnamese. |
| So let's make it more specific, okay? I'm not going to confuse you anymore. |
| If you want to say excuse me, can you say that one more time, please? We say... |
| That means can you repeat that, please? Or can you say it one more time? |
| Another way to ask the other person to repeat that, but in a slow way. |
| So you can say... |
| That means can you say it slowly, please? |
| Please remember that the tones are very important in Vietnamese. |
| So in order to let the other person understand what you said, it's very very important to distinguish and to make the tones clearly, okay? |
| So if you want to ask a single word in English or if that person knows English and maybe they can explain it to you in English, you can say... |
| That means what is this in English? |
| So one thing to remember the tones is to point out where there is a downtone or up tone. |
| For example, it would have a word, but in different tones, it would mean differently. |
| For example, down tone means from, however, means for, number four in the traditional language. |
| Or means to die or like death. |
| And... means like a word in traditional language, okay? |
| So you can see that, yeah, I know Vietnamese is difficult, but it's fun. |
| For example, if you want to ask someone how you write that in English, sorry, in Vietnamese, we say... |
| That means how do you write this, how do you write this in Vietnamese? |
| However, if you want to say how do we spell it in Vietnamese, we say... |
| And... |
| If you want to be more specific and you want to really ask the other person to write it down, |
| to write the words down or to write the sentence down, we say... |
| Means can you write it down, please? |
| Is like please, can you write it down, please? |
| Or... |
| Means can you repeat that, please? |
| Right, so after those questions or sentences and you still haven't understood what the other person said, |
| then you can say, sorry, I don't know, right? |
| And in Vietnamese, we can say... |
| So nowadays, I've seen a lot of foreigners when they came to Vietnam |
| and they tried to communicate with Vietnamese people, |
| they use Google Translate or they use like dictionary |
| so that every time they ask something, |
| they write the sentence in Google Translate and show it to Vietnamese people. |
| And it's a very convenient and easy way to communicate with local people. |
| However, I encourage you, I suggest you and highly recommend you to use these sentences |
| so that you can really try and catch up with the tones in Vietnamese. |
| Right, so that's pretty much everything for today |
| and those are some very basic sentences. |
| One thing I'd like to notice is please remember to practice the tones |
| because it's the most important thing when learning Vietnamese. |
| It's even more important than Vietnamese grammar |
| because Vietnamese grammar is like another story. |
| So, okay, so please practice the tones. |
| That is the number one thing you should learn when learning Vietnamese. |
| And yeah, that's it for today. |
| Thank you very much for watching, guys. |
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