| There are a lot of words in Vietnamese that can stand individually |
| and combined with other words but still keep the same meaning. |
| So in this video today, I'm gonna introduce you some compound words |
| which are made by two single words and they still have the same meaning. |
| Hello everyone, my name is Linh. Welcome back to vietnamespod101.com. |
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| Áo is a shirt, dài is long. Áo dài, the long shirt, |
| which is the Vietnamese ảo dài, the traditional dress of Vietnam. |
| Áo dài. So basically, it looks like a shirt, a very long shirt, |
| and it covers all the woman's body. |
| Vietnamese traditional dress or custom. |
| Bàn ghế. Bàn means table and ghế means chair. |
| So when you say bàn ghế, it means furniture, including chairs and tables in general. |
| Dễ chịu. Dễ means easy and chịu means bear or endure. |
| So dễ chịu means easy to bear. It means pleasant in Vietnamese. |
| So something is very nice, very comfortable, very pleasant, we can say dễ chịu. |
| Now next one, quần áo. Quần means trousers or pants and áo means shirt. |
| Quần áo means clothes in general. |
| I don't have a lot of clothes. |
| Nhà means a house, ăn means to eat. Nhà ăn means dining hall. |
| Nhà ăn ở trường cấp 3 của tôi rất rộng. The dining hall of my high school is very spacious. |
| Tốt đẹp. Tốt means good. Đẹp means beautiful. Tốt đẹp means fine. Something is fine. |
| Great or good. Tốt đẹp. Tôi muốn dành những gì tốt đẹp nhất cho cô ấy. |
| Means I want to give her the finest things. |
| Đi lại. Đi means to go and lại means to come back. So đi lại means like to move from one place to another. |
| Đi lại. Nhu cầu đi lại của người Việt rất lớn. It means like the need of traveling or commuting |
| from one place to another of Vietnamese people is very high. |
| Xe lửa. Xe lửa. Xe means vehicle. Lửa means fire. Xe lửa means train. Xe lửa. Tầu hỏa. |
| Before we used to call it xe lửa but now we say tầu hỏa, train. |
| Xe đạp. Xe đạp. Xe đạp. Xe đạp means bicycle. Xe means vehicle and đạp means kick. |
| Xe đạp. Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp. Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp. |
| Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp. Kids really enjoy riding bicycles. |
| Hoa hồng. Hoa means flower and hồng means pink. Hoa hồng is rose. |
| Hoa hồng. Hoa hồng là biểu tượng của tình yêu. |
| Rose is a symbol of love. |
| Trả lời. Trả lời. Trả lời. Trả lời means to respond or to reply but actually trả |
| means like to return and lời means words. Trả lời is like to return words so response or |
| reply. Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá. Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá. |
| Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá means don't forget to reply or respond to me early. Remember we |
| use nhớ at the end of the sentence to ask someone to do something right? So nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá. |
| Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai means like the pearl, the round object inside the shell of the |
| oysters right? And chai is the oysters. Ngọc chai is like the pearl in the oyster. Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai |
| là một món trang sức rất quý giá. Ngọc chai là một món trang sức |
| rất quý giá. Pearl is a very precious jewelry. |
| Next one is dày dép. Dày dép. Dày dép. Dày dép means footwear and dày actually means shoe. |
| Dép means sandal. Both of them refer to things that we can wear on our foot right? So dày dép |
| In sentence, |
| this is the biggest footwear store in Hà Nội. |
| Ba mẹ. Ba mẹ. Ba means father and mẹ means mother. Ba mẹ, |
| parents. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Means my parents are |
| Northern. |
| means birthday cake right so in sentence |
| Bánh sinh nhật là thứ không thể thiếu trong các bữa tiệc sinh nhật. |
| Bánh sinh nhật là thứ không thể thiếu trong các bữa tiệc sinh nhật. |
| Birthday cakes are indispensable in every birthday party. |
| Next one, thầy cô. Thầy cô. Thầy cô. Thầy means a male teacher and cô means a female teacher. |
| So thầy cô means teachers in general. |
| November 28th is the day of all teachers. |
| Sinh đẹp. Sinh đẹp. Sinh means pretty and đẹp means beautiful. Sinh đẹp is just beautiful |
| in general. Sinh đẹp. Cô ấy là một người phụ nữ rất sinh đẹp. Cô ấy là một người phụ nữ |
| She's a very beautiful woman. |
| is like humid and ướt means wet so ẩm ướt is like the situation when the humidity is very high |
| The weather recently has been very humid. |
| S. Đất nước Việt Nam có hình chữ S means the Vietnam country is in the S shape. |
| Yay that's it for today guys. That's all for the series of the month and let me know what you want |
| to talk about next or what you want to learn from Vietnamese. Thank you very much for watching. I |
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