Using Greeting and Parting Expressions - Part 1

Learn how to use expressions for greetings and partings

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Xin chào các bạn, tôi là Linh.

Hello everyone, my name is Linh

and welcome to Whiteboard Lessons.

In this lesson, we're going to learn how to use greeting and parting expressions

cách chào hỏi trong tiếng Việt.

In particular, I'm going to introduce you the top common phrases

to greet someone in Vietnamese

some examples, how they look in the dialogue

and also some cultural points that you don't want to miss.

So stay tuned and let's get started.

Okay, let's look at the vocabulary.

First is

xin chào

it means hello

xin chào.

Pay attention to the tone here. We have

dấu huyên

chào, right?

So it has to be a little bit low

xin chào

hello.

The next one

chào buổi sáng

chào buổi sáng.

Chào has dấu huyên,

buổi has dấu hỏi,

and sáng has dấu sắc.

So three different tones in a phrase.

Chào buổi sáng, good morning

chào buổi sáng.

Chào buổi chiều

chào buổi chiều

chào buổi chiều, okay?

dấu huyên, so these sounds are the same.

And buổi, dấu hỏi,

chào buổi chiều

good afternoon.

The fourth one, chào buổi tối

chào buổi tối

good evening.

Chào buổi tối.

Now let's move on to some other forms.

Chúc ngủ ngon

chúc ngủ ngon

chúc ngủ ngon,

it means wish you a good sleep.

Chúc means wish

ngủ is sleep

ngon means wow or good

chúc ngủ ngon, good night.

Chúc ngủ ngon.

Next one is a shorter form of chúc ngủ ngon.

We have ngủ ngon

ngủ ngon

ngủ ngon, it means good night in a casual way.

So that means like have a good sleep

ngủ ngon.

Now if you're leaving to somewhere and you want to say goodbye, how do you say?

Hẹn sớm gặp lại.

See you again.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại.

Hẹn is like planning something.

Sớm means soon

gặp, meet

lại, again.

See you again or see you soon.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại.

Next one, another form, you can also say hẹn gặp lại sau.

Hẹn gặp lại sau.

Hẹn, planning

gặp, meeting

lại, again

sau, later.

See you again later.

Hẹn gặp lại sau.

Okay, another one but it's shorter.

You can say Hẹn gặp lại.

Hẹn gặp lại.

It means see you.

And the last one, the shortest.

Tạ biệt.

It means goodbye.

Now let's move on to the next part.

Let's look at the dialogue.

When I read, I want you to pay attention to the vocabulary

that we've learned in the previous part

and see how they're used in the dialogue.

Let's go.

Chào buổi sáng, Dương.

Xin chào, My.

Chào buổi sáng, Dương.

Xin chào, My.

And this is how it sounds in the real conversations.

Chào buổi sáng, Dương.

Xin chào, My.

Where's the vocabulary that we learned before?

Chào buổi sáng.

What does it mean?

Good morning.

Chào buổi sáng.

Good morning.

Xin chào, My.

What does it mean?

Hello, right? Very easy.

Xin chào.

So we have good morning, Dương, and hello, My.

Very simple.

Pay attention to the phrases, right?

Here we put the phrases at the beginning of the sentence.

And then we put the name of the person we're greeting.

Chào buổi sáng, Dương.

Xin chào, Linh.

Chào buổi sáng, Linh.

Chúc ngủ ngon, Linh.

That's it.

Now let's take a look at some speaking examples.

For example, if you're going to a conference or a meeting with a bunch of people

what do you say?

Xin chào mọi người.

It means hello, everyone.

Xin chào mọi người.

Xin chào, we put at the beginning of the sentence.

And mọi người, which is like the pronoun or the people you want to address

at the end of the sentence.

Xin chào mọi người.

And for example, if you're leaving the place

you want to say goodbye, what do you say?

Tôi đi đây, hẹn gặp lại.

I'm leaving, see you.

Tôi đi đây, hẹn gặp lại.

Okay, so now let's practice a little bit based on the vocabulary

the sentence structure and the examples that I've just given you.

What can we say in some other situations?

Let's say with xin chào.

What do you say?

Xin chào mọi người, right?

Like what I said at the beginning of the lesson.

Xin chào mọi người.

Chào buổi sáng.

Chào buổi sáng, Linh.

Chào buổi sáng, mọi người.

Chào buổi sáng, Dương.

Something like that.

What about chào buổi chiều?

Chào buổi chiều, mọi người.

Chào buổi chiều, Linh.

Like that.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại nhá.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại nhớ.

Nhớ is like okay, yeah.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại nhá.

And tạm biệt.

Tạm biệt mọi người.

Tạm biệt nhá.

Alright, let's move on to the next part.

Okay, we just talked about some phrases to greet someone

and basically there are like individual phrases

and we don't really have to put some other words

to complete the sentence or to make it complicated.

It can be used individually, right?

However, there are some cultural points

that I want to introduce to you

and it might add up to your speaking.

Let's take a look.

The first one, pronoun is used to show connection.

What does it mean?

So here you see that no pronouns appeared in these phrases, right?

So if you want to show some connection,

if you want to show how close you are with the person,

you put pronoun in the sentence.

For example,

Tạm biệt em.

Em means you.

And when you use em,

that means that person is younger than you and is close to you.

Tạm biệt em.

See you.

Tạm biệt em.

Instead of em, you can also use anh.

For example,

Chúc anh ngon.

Anh is used for male

and they are older than you.

You can use it in both formal and informal situations.

But it just shows the connection and it shows who you're talking to.

Chúc anh ngủ ngon.

Good night to you or have a good sleep.

Chúc anh ngủ ngon.

Tạm biệt em.

So the two new words are em and anh.

I'm gonna write down here.

Em and anh.

Remember that em for someone who is younger than you

and for anh who is someone older than you.

Em we can use for both female and male.

And anh you can only use for male.

And what about female?

I don't want to miss.

We have chi and for female.

Alright.

Em anh chi.

So pronouns are used to show connection between two people.

Now let's apply these pronouns to these phrases.

For example,

Xin chào em.

Chào buổi sáng.

Anh.

Chào buổi sáng anh.

Chúc em ngủ ngon.

hẹn gặp lại chị.

Okay.

Easy, right?

Now let's move on to the second point.

À is to show respect.

À.

It has dấu nặng so it has to be strong.

À.

So basically à is placed at the end of the sentence.

At the end.

Okay.

For example,

Chào buổi sáng á.

And you pay attention to the linking sound a little bit, right?

We're going to link the last sound to à.

Chào buổi sáng á.

Okay.

So if you're speaking to someone who's older than you

or who's a little bit, how do I say, stronger or in higher positions?

We say,

Chào buổi sáng á.

Or you can even say,

Chào buổi sáng á.

Okay.

Another example.

Hẹn sớm gặp lại anh.

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