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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're going to learn how to give your name in Vietnamese, |
| cách giới thiệu tên trong tính Việt. |
| In particular, I'm going to introduce to you the sentence structure, |
| some vocabulary and also some grammar points |
| so that you can be confidently introducing your name. |
| Now let's get started. |
| Introducing your name is the most important and the most common thing |
| when you learn a new language, right? |
| Now let's take a look at the dialogue and see |
| what we can say when introducing your name in Vietnamese. |
| First one, we have |
| Xin chào, tôi là Tiến Trần. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh, tôi là Thái Lâm. |
| One more time, I'm going to speak slowly. |
| Xin chào, tôi là Tiến Trần. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh, tôi là Thái Lâm. |
| Clear? Now one more time with a normal speed. |
| Xin chào, tôi là Tiến Trần. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh, tôi là Thái Lâm. |
| Very simple, right? Now let's take a look at what it means in English. |
| Hi, welcome back. |
| Now I'm going to give you the translation of the dialogue that we mentioned before. |
| First one, we have |
| Xin chào. |
| It means hello. |
| Xin chào. |
| Next one, we have |
| tôi là Tiến Trần. |
| Tôi means I. |
| Là is to be verb |
| and then Tiến Trần is a Vietnamese name. |
| Tôi là Tiến Trần. |
| It means I'm Tiến Trần. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| We have rất means very. |
| Vui means happy. |
| Rất vui is like very nice or very happy. |
| được gặp anh. |
| To see you. |
| Okay? |
| Rất vui được gặp anh is like very happy to see you or very happy to meet you, |
| which is nice to meet you. |
| And then the second person, he said |
| Rất vui được gặp anh, |
| which is nice to meet you too. |
| But in Vietnamese, we don't really have to use to here. |
| You just use the exact same sentence. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Okay? |
| Nice to meet you too. |
| And then introducing his name. |
| Tôi là Thái Lâm. |
| I'm Thái Lâm. Okay? |
| Xin chào. Tôi là Tiến Trần. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. Tôi là Thái Lâm. |
| Hello, I'm Tiến Trần. Nice to meet you. |
| Nice to meet you too. I'm Thái Lâm. |
| Clear? |
| Alright, let's move on to the next part, which is the sentence pattern. |
| Now, let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogue will follow. Okay? |
| In this lesson, we're going to have a very basic structure. |
| Tôi là. |
| It means I am and then you put your name after that. |
| Very easy, right? |
| Tôi is first person singular pronoun, which is I. |
| Là is the verb to be and then you put your name here. |
| Tôi là. |
| In Vietnamese, we don't have to conjugate the verb, |
| so là will remain the same with any other pronouns. |
| Tôi là. |
| Now, let's move on to the next part. |
| Moving on to the next part, |
| now we're going to talk about the cultural points in this context. Okay? |
| So, first one, we have tôi tên là, |
| which means my name is. |
| Tôi tên là. |
| Now, we have learned to use tôi là to introduce your name, right? |
| And then we have tôi tên là. |
| It also means I am. |
| But in this situation, it specifically means my name is. Okay? |
| Tôi tên là, tôi tên là. |
| So, both tôi là and tôi tên là |
| are common and are used to introduce your name. |
| Tôi tên là, okay? |
| But one small thing that you need to pay attention to is |
| for tôi là, this structure, we can use in a lot more situations. |
| For example, giving your occupation, giving your nationality, giving your name. |
| However, tôi tên là is only used to give your name. |
| That's the only difference. Okay? |
| Tôi tên là. |
| Now, the second one you have to pay attention to is |
| rất vui được gặp anh and rất vui được gặp bạn. |
| Here you see the difference that we have anh and bạn. |
| Two different pronouns. |
| So, we use anh for formal situations and we use bạn for informal situations. |
| For example, |
| when I speak to someone who is older than me and is the man, I say |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| It sounds a little bit more polite and more formal. |
| However, if I meet my friends or my colleagues or |
| someone who I've known before, I would say |
| Rất vui được gặp bạn. |
| Okay? |
| So, one small thing here, bạn also means friend. |
| So, that's why it's used for people who are the same age. |
| Rất vui được gặp bạn. |
| It means nice to meet you. |
| Alright, let's sum up. |
| We have tôi tên là is another way to say I am, |
| but it means my name is. Okay? |
| The second one. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh |
| for formal situations and |
| rất vui được gặp bạn |
| for informal situations. |
| Now, I'm going to give you some examples. |
| For example, when I introduce my name, I would say |
| Xin chào. Tôi Tiến là Linh. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Or in a formal situation, I would say |
| Xin chào. Tôi là Linh. Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| We just had a dialogue, right? |
| And now, let's review a little bit by going through |
| some vocabulary in this lesson. |
| The first one, we have |
| Tôi |
| which means I. |
| Tôi |
| The next one, we have |
| là. |
| Actually, it's not really em, but it's to be verb. Okay? |
| And we can use with any pronouns. |
| Tôi |
| là. |
| The next one, we have |
| xin chào. |
| It means hello. |
| And this is the most common way to say hello in Vietnam. |
| xin chào. |
| Alright, let me fix this one a little bit. So we have xin chào. Okay? |
| xin chào. |
| And then the next one, we have |
| rất vui được gặp anh. |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. |
| It means nice to meet you. |
| We have rất vui is nice. |
| Rất vui |
| to, means được. |
| Gặp is meet. |
| And you is anh. Okay? |
| Rất vui được gặp anh. |
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