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Hi everyone, it's Linh.
Xin chào các bạn, tôi là Linh.
Welcome to the Whiteboard Lessons.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to say where you're from in Vietnamese
cách giới thiệu bạn đến từ đâu trong tiếng Việt.
In particular, I'm going to introduce you formal and informal way to introduce your hometown.
And it's very easy.
There's only one word you have to remember.
So let's get started.
First one, let's take a look at the dialogue to have an overview
and to see what kind of questions you will probably be asked
and how to respond to the question. Okay?
Let's talk about the question first.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Anh đến từ đâu?
Anh đến từ đâu?
Alright!
And how do we respond to that question?
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
One more time.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Alright, easy, right? Only a few letters to remember.
Now let's see what it means in English.
We have anh đến từ đâu?
Which means
where are you from?
But the structure will be a little bit different, okay?
Anh means you.
Đến means come.
Từ is from and đâu is where.
You come from where.
That's the common structure in Vietnamese.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Where are you from?
And then let's look at the answer.
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Tôi is I.
Đến is come.
Từ is from.
Thái Nguyên is a city in Vietnam.
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
So that means I'm from Thái Nguyên.
One more time.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Where are you from?
I'm from Thái Nguyên.
Now let's move on to the next part to see the sentence pattern
and how we form the sentences.
Hi, welcome back.
Remember that our topic is how to tell where you're from in Vietnamese, right?
How to tell about your hometown
so you don't have to worry much about the question
but pay attention on the answer only.
Here we have
tôi đến từ.
And you put the place after that.
Tôi is I.
Đến, you can use like I am or I come.
Từ means from.
And then you put the name of the city or town that you're from.
Tôi đến từ.
It means I'm from or I come from.
Tôi đến từ.
For example
tôi đến từ Hà Nội.
Tôi đến từ Thái Nguyên.
Tôi đến từ thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.
Or
tôi đến từ Sơn La.
For example
okay?
Tôi đến từ.
And then you put the place here.
Now let's take a look at the vocabulary part to see
what words we can use in this situation.
Welcome back.
Let's move on to the vocabulary part.
Here I only have two words to introduce you.
The first one is
tôi.
Very simple, right? Only one word.
Tôi and it's very common as well.
Tôi is I, okay?
So this is the first person singular pronoun.
Tôi.
The second word that I want to introduce you is
đến từ.
It means come from.
đến từ.
As you see here, if we use these two words
it can become a sentence like this.
Tôi đến từ.
Alright!
Tôi đến từ.
So tôi means I and đến từ means come from.
Đến is come and từ is from.
I come from somewhere.
Easy, right?
Let's move on to the next part.
Hi, welcome back.
All right, there are some things to remember in this situation.
One is how to say in a formal way
and one is how to say in an informal way.
So I have only one word for you to remember.
It's very easy.
The question is where are you from?
Which means
bạn đến từ đâu?
Bạn đến từ đâu?
So in this situation,
we have bạn as the pronoun and it's very formal
and we can use bạn for colleagues, friends, acquaintances or strangers,
people who you just met.
Bạn đến từ đâu?
Where are you from?
But in an informal situation,
when you know the age of the person,
for example, like someone who is older than you, we use anh.
Anh đến từ đâu?
And remember that ""anh"" is used for male only, okay?
Someone who is a man and is older than you.
Anh đến từ đâu?
Okay, so one more time.
Bạn đến từ đâu?
We use informal situations and
anh đến từ đâu?
We use in informal situations and they all mean where are you from.
Bạn đến từ đâu?
Anh đến từ đâu?
Now you might be wondering what word we can use for female, right?
So in this situation, we have chị.
Chị is for female and for people who are older than you, okay?
Anh đến từ đâu?
Chị đến từ đâu?
Anh đến từ đâu?
Chị đến từ đâu?
And for bạn
we can use for anyone in any situations
except
people who are older than you, okay?
So just basically, this is very formal.
That's it.
Now let's move on to the next part, grammar point.
Now we're going to talk about the grammar in this lesson.
It's very easy, trust me.
Right, we have four words to introduce to you
which are very familiar because we mentioned before.
The first one, we have đến.
đến
So in this situation, đến is the verb, okay?
And it means come.
Đến.
And one more thing that I repeat many times that in Vietnamese,
you don't have to conjugate the verbs
which means you just need to use this verb with any pronouns.
It remains the same.
Đến.
And the second one, tư.
tư
So in this situation, it means from and is a preposition
okay?
So we have two different kinds of words.
The first one is the verb,
Đến.
and the second one, preposition.
tư
Okay?
Đến.
tư
Now let's take a look at the third one.
Bạ.
As I mentioned before, in this situation, it's used for a polite or a formal way
or for a general sense.
Bạ, it means you.
Another one that also means you is "anh".
Anh.
And we use this one in an informal way
like in this situation.
Anh đến từ đâu?
And since we mentioned chị
so we can also put here chị
okay?
And they'll all mean you.
Anh.
chị

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