Vietnamese language: - grammar: one of the easiest languages on the planet - pronunciation: one of the hardest; ex: you can have a sentence of 20 words and each word is totally different vowels, diphthongs, triphthongs and monophthong. - writing system: Latin (easy and familiar to everyone) and consistent rules (unlike English, a bunch of exceptions, even more than its rules and grammar combined) Basically it 😎

I'm Vietnamese and I've never realized how difficult Vietnamese is until I randomly tried a Vietnamese test online :)) I realized it is really hard to explain our grammar and vocabulary to non-native speakers. We don't really have a specific way to indicate tenses and fixed grammar structures as in English, not to mention the spelling and accents on words. It's truly challenging! Good luck with your learning journey and I hope you will see the beauty and prosperity of Vietnamese as we all do ^^. Cố lên!

I’m a native speaker, but i absolutely understand your pain haha

I’m learning Vietnamese and I would say it’s definitely challenging in ways that other languages I’ve learned have not been. Learning to hear the unusual tones, getting used to the discrepancy between spelling and actual pronunciation... The hardest thing in the US is that many Vietnamese people don’t seem comfortable answering in Vietnamese, and more immersion would really be helpful. But my ear is already getting used to it, it’s fun when you start hearing meaning instead of just sound. I’ll be happy to get to a basic conversational level so that I can get to know people when I finally go to Vietnam!

im Vietnamese-American and i’m glad that i grew up knowing and speaking vietnamese.

I’m a Viet kid born in America and it’s still hard for me to balance it, even growing up hearing it. Props to anyone who wants to learn it, it definitely isn’t as easy to pick up as Spanish or French, comparably. Learning Language is like an endurance challenge, and I hope that everyone doesn’t give up!

I'm Vietnamese, and I don't know Vietnamese at all. I've tried learning but it is such a difficult language, especially due to it being a tonal language. I'm actually learning French and Spanish, and my parents are side-eyeing me for learning other languages lol

Xin chào anh ! Tiếng Việt là ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của em và em thấy rất vui khi thấy mọi người cố học ngôn ngữ này . Đây là một ngôn ngữ rất giàu đẹp . !!!

It’s so interesting that I see this video today. I’m Vietnamese and I’m totally aware of how it is challenging to foreigners. Not only is the pronunciation of all words difficult but Vietnamese people do not speak Vietnamese in the way foreigners are taught or the way Vietnamese language is properly spoken.

Vietnamese is hard because there’s literally 6 different tones for each word

I really like how the longest word in my language is only 6 letters in Vietnamese

Kudos to you, going through that much effort.

For someone who currently is trying to learn Mandarin and in the near future other tonal languages such as Vietnamese and Thai, I find this video extremely encouraging! Thank you!

Interesting video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm working on a video about all of the things that are surprisingly easy about Vietnamese as sort of a way to combat that all-too-common idea that it is impossible to learn. Congrats on reaching such a high level of proficiency!

Awesome video man! Kudos!

You are totally on point ! I am studying Vietnamese now and feeling the pain and frustration, I am trying my hardest but sometimes I think it's just not going to happen. I am challenged in more ways than I could have possibly imagined.

ur young and talented dude... in my age its a diff situation. even my english is bad. but i agree, you can go for coffee and having a good time with the ladys only with basic conversation. they make ur smile

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Well.. I taught my self how to program as a hobby before, so this was encouraging. Thanks.

This was super helpful thank you!

Man, I'm wishing I had learned growing up! I'm half Vietnamese and half Puerto Rican, so my parents spoke English in the house. Since my dad was the only one from his family in the US, and most of my friends were black where I was from, I was always a little disconnected from my heritage and never tried to learn. But now that I'm older and trying to learn on my own, I'm finding it extremely difficult and don't know if I can

I have 3 friends name:Kiên,Bích,Phúc.Oneday I met them going out together.But They dont see me.So I shouted:Hey Phúc,Kiên,Bích Phúc,Kiên,Bích Phúc,Kiên,Bích Fucking Bitch I miss them so much.We havent met from that day

Vietnamese has 5 most popular tones and 3 marks on letters, for example with the "a", "o" and "u" characters, we got "á, à, ã, ạ, ả" and "ă-â, ê, ô-ơ, ư" In Vietnam, we speak it with 3 main accents: Northern [Sounds really high] Central [Sounds like when you speak it without tones] Southern [Sounds lower than the Northern]

I think that is the case for me. I can relate to you so much because my language partner corrected me multiple times even though I felt like I'm speaking in the correct tone. It was absolutely crazy.

Thank you for this video. As a fellow Wisconsinite hoping to learn the basics of Vietnamese and feeling a little scared, this really helps.

Your video is really helpful, because it shows that learning Vietnamese can be done - if one puts his heart into it... I started learning Vietnamese a few month ago, tried using some online sources and learn right now "for real" with Duolingo. I like the easy grammar and how sentences are built, I know how the six tones work and begin to hear differences - if spoken slowly. That is my greatest fear right now (next to the right use of personal pronouns for adressing other people) - I think at some point it will be possible to read and understand, to write, to speak (at a basic level). But understanding vietnamese people in normal life (instead of the speakers in learning sources) will be a way more difficult. But well - I'll certainly try.

What makes it additionally hard is the fact that they have no properly recognized pronunciation standard. To take the example of the word book in your video, "sách": In the South (South of Huế) this is pronounced nearly as "shut" (as you pronounced it) and in the North nearly as "sack", both with rising tone. In the North they have had three sound mergers (one of them triple) that causes many homophones and is circumventend by clusters of two equally meaning words (for instance. "tro tan" for ash instead of simply "tro" as this is in the North pronounced equal as "cho").In Germany we have "High German" with just one standard pronunciation. Any pronunciation differing from that is regarded as accent.. And these regional differences concern also the words used in daily conversation. But writing a lot seems to be the best method. I like to take Vietnamese fairy tales, translate them into German and a little afterwards retranslate them into Vietnamese to compare with the original. This improves the reading skill. Tôi thích đọc tranh truyện dân gian Việt Nam rất nhiều! Most rewarding about the Vietnamese language are its fantastically logical combined words.They even have a one syllable word for electricity which can be combined with anything.With more clarity in its pronunciation and lewss homophones and different meanings in one word it could be a world language for all people.

Great channel bro!

Wait,hello Mr.Cameron.I am wondering.Because,when I was at primary school which name: Nguyễn Huệ.I still remember I have an English teacher name Cameron like u.Student like me usually call you by the name:"Thầy Cam",he is a funny teacher,his lessons always funny with students.And he could play guitar too.You made me remember of him☺️

Thanks for the tip about ankidroid. I just downloaded it and also subscribed. 😎

Fellow Wisconsinite here and learning Vietnamese (twice a week over the past 2 years w/teacher). I can fully relate to her making me repeat a word/phrase (that I thought I was speaking correctly) because my usage of the tone is wrong. Sometimes I feel it is impossible, so it's great to hear your encouragement.

Thank god I grew up speaking and listening to Vietnamese when I was younger. Nowadays, I speak only English but thanks to my background, I have a much easier time than most when it comes to Vietnamese pronunciation and recognizing the slight tone differences of the words.

the Vietnamese language has an average degree of difficulty, but the biggest problem is that there are no really good courses for foreigners who want to learn Vietnamese. Not surprising because the Vietnamese had more important work to do, such as rebuilding the country and the number of people who want to learn Vietnamese is limited. An additional problem is that anyone who can speak Vietnamese believes that they can also teach in it. Subsequently, young people mainly want to practice English with you and practicing your Vietnamese is very difficult. My Vietnamese is very limited but the people around here understand it well. Other Vietnamese look at my Vietnamese friends and ask them what I say. If my friends understand, they should be able to understand it, after all, the Vietnamese themselves all speak a different Vietnamese.

As a Vietnamese student, i confirm that very few people have good grades in Vietnamese subject😢

Hey dude, I’m a new subscriber, cool video. I’m currently learning Spanish but want to learn Vietnamese, so I have a little advantage because I work in a Vietnamese community( Westminster, Ca, Little Saigon). Where do I start learning Vietnamese?

Hi Cameron, which Anki do you use or can your share yours? Im struggling to find one with just words and sounds, all I find are advanced one with full sentences. Also, did you go to a proper course, like the one at D1 university or something similar? What are your material to learn? Cheers, good video nonetheless. Im sort of in your boots, I want to learn vietnamese and Im learning code as well.

Thanks for sharing the tips - is your Vietnamese Anki deck available?

Impressive! I want to practice daily, but I do not have 2-3 hours a day to commit. Are apps like MANGO, which has visual and audio parts enough, or do I need a live human being to tutor me for learning proper tones?

Hey, that's a good video! Many thanks to the author of the channel! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.

The reason when you say a word in Vietnamese, and your friend can’t understand it is that you should say a group of words or a whole sentence. A single word doesn’t make any sense in Vietnamese because one has a few meanings. For example: you said “sách”, and it has a few definitions depending on context. It can be “Sách vở” (book), “sách nhiễu or xách nhiễu” (harass), “lá sách” (tripe, some sort of stomach organ), “cửa sổ lá sách” (jalousie or louvre window). Đường in Vietnamese has many definitions: đường for cooking means sugar, đường for civil engineer means street, đường for aviation means đường băng (runway at an airport), đường hàng không (airway), in Sino-Vietnamese đường means a court like a front yard (minh đường, tiền đường). It also means lunatic like in “hoang đường” See, one word in Vietnamese has sophisticated definitions, so next time try to say it in a group of words.

I learned German to a basic intermediate level and that took me years of dedicated work, (I’m still trying to move forward with that) Vietnamese is the second language I’ve seriously tried to learn, especially since developing a language learning method that works for me. It’s definitely challenging for many reasons but almost any language would take serious hard work for most people to get conversationally fluent and comfortable with it. I believe the human mind is capable of great things but we have to be ok with putting in the time and effort. Also with this said I’m only a few weeks into Vietnamese but I’m working on getting the sounds right first… I had a tutoring session on italki the other day and spent 10 minutes trying to pronounce ng correctly 😅

Today I see your video really useful

What do you do? Where do you live? What kind of Viet do you speak, Northern or Southern?

Would you mind linking the anki deck you used? I'm a Vietnamese American and I'm trying to improve. Also congrats on your journey for learning the language!

I wonder if you used any particular listening resources to immerse yourself in the everyday conversations of southern Vietnamese?

100 % honest and very useful 👍🏻 I guess I have 3 more months to go ...

Hey man, any chance you could share your Cards/Settings on Anki? It's all pretty confusing for me.

It would be nice to mention what dialect you learned, so that it does not confuse other learners :)

Learning any new language is always challenging. I am guilty of being a westerner who has lived in VN for quite a while without trying, but I have decided to spend an hour a day during lockdown to try and learn. Trời ơi!

Hi! I'm trying to learn vietnamese, but everytime I decide to, I plan steps for me to take but I end up moving from one subject to another.. let's say for example grammar. I move on to another subject, for example pronunciation shortly after. I think this problem for me would be less of an issue if I knew what step I should take first to know basics of vietnamese. I've seen some people say that learning pronunciation of words and alphabet should be the first step, but others have said that learning a variety of basic vietnamese words is the first step. Hearing these things, I don't know which step would get me more advanced. Any advice?

Hi Cameron, did you learn Southern or Northern Vietnamesese? I'm considering learning Viet in the future but I don't know which one to learn...

Vietnamese is hard because of the massive dictionary of complicated words

I am leanrning Vietnamese and I have to say it is really difficult but if you already have some knowledge about Chinese like me,you will make progress in learning Vietnamese much easier.

Vietnam or Cuba are my two choices for places to move in a few years. Cuba has a lot of advantages like geography and cost of living, but Vietnam has weed (which is big for me) and a lot of travel opportunity. I also know that most English speakers would say Spanish is easier than Vietnamese, and neither language is just overnight of course, but for some reason I just hate practicing Spanish with an insane passion.

Studying a new language is really challange for all us.I'm Vietnamese who also learn English as well as you study my country 's language. I spend at least 2 hours countinuely reapeating but not any good results to me. There are many different about grammar , the way of pronunciation and expression emotion of words every where also not the same.It cause losing time to do it and i feel a bit depression in my brain

Actually, Vietnamese is really difficult cause as a native speaker, just a few people can understand me when i talk with my different accent from others.

I am interested in learning Vietnamese everyday culture, especially how they see things differently from westerners. Jokes are usually good at showing cultural differences, including what the people find funny.

It certainly is worth it for me it is a hard language but I love the culture country people etc..😅

Hi guys I have a Vietnamese girlfriend and I speak Spanish, Do you know if there’s an Spanish community to learn and work in Vietnam cause I am planning to travel and also live in Hanoi

Am vietnamese even we do not understand each othher, things are need to understand daily communication. One thing we can explain in many ways. Same language but people in North VN not understand middle of Vietnam what they say

can you share your anki deck?

when i came to vietnam to live and work i learned vietnamese but when i learned it was not easy at all

I'm from EasTimor' and now I'm study at Vietnam. And I'm try to study at vietnamese language, for me it's very diffucult to learn vietnamese!

People seem to understand my bad attempts at Vietnamese everywhere I go these days. It took much longer to get to an equivalent point in Chinese.

Here comes a native Korean speaker watching this video haha bạn chưa đoán trường hợp này đúng không kk cảm ơn nhiều, video này rất thú vị

I'm vietnamese boy. I'm beginer studying English and really want to practice English everyday. If you want to learn Vietnamese also. I can teach you. We are improve together. I'm in Ha Noi.

Vietnamese vowels are so complicated, and consonants are hard to distinguish as well. Even today I still have no idea what're the differences between "d" and "r", "q" and "k", " đ" and "t" as well as "ch" and "tr", and why "kh" sometimes sounds like "h" sound? OMG so many questions I don't know😭

Chào bạn, mình là người Việt Nam. Khi thấy bạn học ngôn ngữ của nước mình, mình cảm thấy rất vui, và mình cũng đang học ngôn ngữ của bạn 💌

Tourists to Thailand seem to aquire a dozen or so words after just a few days it seems. It's a cute sounding accessible language with a "coherent" native alphabet.

Tôi là người Việt Nam, tôi có 1 vài gợi ý cho những người nước ngoài muốn học tiếng Việt, Về ngữ pháp rất đơn giản. các bạn có thể tự tìm hiểu. Về nghe, nói. Các bạn nên tiếp xúc với người bản xứ. Nói chuyện với họ, nếu có lỗi sai thì nhờ họ sửa giúp là tốt nhất. Nếu tự học, cực kì khó vì chúng tôi có 6 thanh trong phát âm, các bạn nghe không quen và dễ phát âm sai nếu tự học. Vậy thôi.

thanks

Wait i don't understand. So he wrote the Vietnamese word elephant for an hour? How does that make sense? Then he says an hour or two writing and an hour or two practicing tonal. That's up to 4 hours a day

^ Vietnam boi i pretty much speak English even know im vietnam , sometime i heard "Xin chào" is like "Xin Chảo" while watching other vid game

I’m Vietnamese and think it’s so easy but people who are not Vietnamese say it’s soo hard

Dude, which exact Anki app? There’s literally 7 of them!?

Ôi, anh chăm vậy viết quyển vở trông chằng chịt quá! Em học tiếng Anh cũng không khổ thế.

I am Vietnamese. I am studying English . I just want to find a partner who want to study Vietnamese everyday and he/she can help me learn English . Thank you :)

As many have mentioned the main issue is the phonics...grammar is retardedly easy and vocab is quite easy since most are max 2 syllables but those phonics...dayumn. I can't remember the sound of the words (yet) because I can't even conceptualise them.

Mình là người Việt Nam... Xin lỗi vì người Việt Nam chúng tôi cười khi bạn tập nói tiếng Việt....Nhưng đó là vì chúng tôi cảm thấy tự hào và hạnh phúc khi được người nước ngoài quan tâm tới ngôn ngữ của đất nước mình nên chúng tôi cười bởi vì cảm thấy vui chứ không hề có ý chế giễu ai cả

xin chao, ban rat la gioi va toi tin, ban se co the lam hon ca nguoi khac\\ co len

Great video. What are "inkey & quizlet"?

I went to New Zealand to learn English and I practised 4-5 hours a day for 3 months in a language school. It's the most efficient way. Nothing hard about it. it's just being consistent and it works...

Is it just me or does Vietnamese look like a glitched out english keyboard lol

Damn ._. I didn’t realise

Im out here saying how vietnamese is so easy... not sure bout ThAt anymore. The tones are musst be so difficult for foreigners but I didnt really think about it that much cause I hear them so clearly so I was judging it based on grammar only which isn't fair.

Im from Vietnam and I knew how to speak it but now I like completely forgot Im trying to speak it again

I am Vietnamese but sometimes I don't understand what Vietnamese people are saying because Vietnam has 3 regions: the west, the south and the north, and 54 other ethnic languages.

I will travel to work in Vietnam but i need to learn language of Vietnam.. Is it very difficult?!?

Bạn người Mỹ, nhưng accent của bạn mang hơi hướng British English, ko biết tôi nhận xét thế có đúng ko

In USA children take about two years to learn to read. but I can't imagine how long poor Vietnamese children will have to spend in elementary school just to learn to read. I am sorry to mention that in Spanish schools children only spend one week to learn to read. .

Yup I’m from 🇻🇳 and I’m trying to learn Vietnamese, right it and say it XD

I'm from America, but my parents are native vietnamese so my vocal cords are still wired with a native tongue.

I’m Vietnamese. If you want to learn Vietnamese, I can teach you. Can you help me to practice my English?

:D You should make a video speaking fully Vietnamese, Cameron.

I'm Vietnamese, i really want to improve my English, if someone interested in Vietnamese, we can practice with each other

I am a native Finnish speaker and more or less fluent in English. I just started learning Vietnamese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Khmer and Thai with free phone app. I don't have any real need learning any of them, my Thai and Vietnamese friends can speak good English and it is unlikely I will ever go there: it's just challenging my brain. However, I can tell already that for me, Vietnamese is the hardest.

If you don't mind me asking ... Why did you move to Vietnam ?

Hi. I'm Vietnamese ❤

Are you still in sigon

I can confirm to you that you are awsome