Vietnamese language

vending is the must try experience visitors should have when they come to Vietnam. Imagine every morning when you wake up, somebody reaches your home and sells everything you need to cook for today. The long existence of street vending proves that Vietnamese people are really open to old culture while adapting new shifting in their culture. Although the modernization of society has impacted on the activities of street vendors, Vietnam will lose its culture without street vendors. Street vendors…

Vietnamese Community’s Approaching the Chinese Influence on and Chinese Elements Within Vietnamese Culture: Customs, Traditions, Language and Contemporary Media The conflict between China-Vietnam regarding the 2016 territorial dispute appears a new development to the rest of the world. In reality, this hostility is deep rooted, and significantly more vibrant and imminent from Vietnam side, almost making the conflict one sided. Overpowered and overshadowed by China, the smaller nation puts more…

family is often confused for other ethnicities. Like Ramos’s father in the article, I would often get people who questioned my heritage when I was younger though in less subtle ways. They would ask whether I was Chinese or Vietnamese—or simply speak to me in their respective language—due to my light skin and Asian-looking facial features. Similarly, when I was in Nicaragua, people I would walk by would yell out “china” at me, implying that I am from China. When told that I was Filipino-American,…

English became my second language and at of an age of eight I understood I needed to learn English in order to adapt into this new profound culture. Yet, English was not easy to come by as it was a completely new language and new subject. However, I had many helps from my family, friends, teacher, books, and even television was a big help. The earliest memory I can hold of me learning English…

translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural difference in source texts. However, these two concepts are mutually exclusive. Foreignization aims to maintain as much as possible the exotic cultural foreignness of the source language, retain the original cultural image in target texts and ‘tell it like…

in which we communicate to one another: language in its diverse forms. In “What is a Language?” the authors Neil Smith and Deidre Wilson and establish their perspective of language being governed by rule-systems. With the density of the subject, languages have three research approaches: how it is used as a form of communication, by social groups, and the ways in which language is an organism that changes through time. As a prerequisite to judging languages to one another, an individual must be…

increased demand for people who were able to translate foreign information, a responsibility given to professional linguists. As defined by Merriam-Webster’s College Dictionary, a linguist is “a specialist in linguistics [which is] the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics” (“Linguist”).…

In these present times, English language is known as the universal language due to its importance. Furthermore, the study of English not only in the world but also in Vietnam is more accessible. When learning English, Vietnamese learners will have difficulty in acquiring grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation. Personal Pronouns, in particular, can be considered as the easiest and the most basic grammar point at the first stage of learning English, but learners cannot avoid making mistakes when…

With every language that dies we lose the appreciation for history and diversity which vital to individual and society; the understanding of human’s identity, the expression of communities’ humor, love and life; and most importantly, an enormous cultural heritage that men are responsible for. Saving a language from dying out is saving the knowledge of history and language appreciation and essential to individuals and society. Through understanding the values and benefits of language, people is…

contrastive analysis of requests in English and Vietnamese In process of communication in a community, request is one of the most important speech acts. In fact, it is used a lot in all aspects of life such as social interaction, working, studying, language teaching, etc. Especially, when teaching and studying language, many Vietnamese teachers and students find difficulty in understanding the similarities and differences between requests in English and Vietnamese. They can not…