Vietnamese is the official language of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It is the first language of Vietnamese people and a second language of some ethic minorities in Vietnam. It is practiced in the Vietic group, Mon-Khmer branch and Austroasiatic language family.
Vietnamese is an analytical language, and its grammar relies heavily on word order and sentence structure. It is known to be one of the toughest languages, even the Vietnamese themselves find it hard to learn when they are younger.
During the period from the 1st-2nd and 9th – 10th centuries Vietnam was ruled by the Chinese; proto-Vietic was influenced and borrowed much vocabulary from Han, Tai-Kadai and Nam-Dao languages and then became ancient Vietic, a monosyllabic language. From the 10th to 14th century, with the end of Chinese domination, Vietnam established an independent feudal regime. As the result of Vietic being used as a mother-tongue by common people and Han being used as an official language, Sino-Vietnamese (Han-Viet) words were formed by borrowing from Han. Although almost 50% of words were borrowed from Han but most of them were changed, so Vietnamese did not lose its own characteristic. For example, Chinese has 4 different tones but Vietnamese has 6 - mid level, low falling, high rising, mid dipping-rising, high breaking-rising, low falling constricted.
Let's learn some basic Vietnamese together, shall we? Who knows it might be a little of help when you travel to Vietnam! Here we go!
Vietnamese is an analytical language, and its grammar relies heavily on word order and sentence structure. It is known to be one of the toughest languages, even the Vietnamese themselves find it hard to learn when they are younger.
During the period from the 1st-2nd and 9th – 10th centuries Vietnam was ruled by the Chinese; proto-Vietic was influenced and borrowed much vocabulary from Han, Tai-Kadai and Nam-Dao languages and then became ancient Vietic, a monosyllabic language. From the 10th to 14th century, with the end of Chinese domination, Vietnam established an independent feudal regime. As the result of Vietic being used as a mother-tongue by common people and Han being used as an official language, Sino-Vietnamese (Han-Viet) words were formed by borrowing from Han. Although almost 50% of words were borrowed from Han but most of them were changed, so Vietnamese did not lose its own characteristic. For example, Chinese has 4 different tones but Vietnamese has 6 - mid level, low falling, high rising, mid dipping-rising, high breaking-rising, low falling constricted.
Let's learn some basic Vietnamese together, shall we? Who knows it might be a little of help when you travel to Vietnam! Here we go!
Basic Phrases
Hello | Xin chào |
Hi | Chào |
How are you? | Bạn có khỏe không? |
Fine. And you? | Khỏe. Còn bạn thì sao? |
I am happy | Tôi vui |
I am sick | Tôi bệnh |
I am tired | Tôi mệt |
What's your name? | Bạn tên gì? |
My name's David | Tôi tên là David |
It's lovely to meet you | Rất vui được gặp bạn. |
Where are you from? | Bạn từ đâu đến? |
| How much / how many | Bao Nhiêu |
| How old are you? | Em/Anh/Chị bao nhiêu tuổi? |
| I am 23 years old | Tôi là hai mươi ba tuổi |
Excuse me | Xin Lỗi |
Help me | Gíup tôi với |
I am sorry | Xin lỗi |
No problem. | Không sao |
Thank You | Cám ơn |
What is this? | Cái này là cái gì? |
Goodbye | Tạm biệt |
See you later | Hẹn gặp lại |
Goodnight | Chúc ngủ ngon |
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