Hello Mr. Thank you for compare and contrast the language/tone/accent in different region of vn. The Vietnamese language and vocabularies are much different before the 1975 compare to now. Nowadays a lot of nonsense/ignorant vocabularies that the communist regime added to the Vietnamese language in the last 20-30 years. Great video, yes the Vietnamese language is very difficult….. thank you

Excellent topic

Many languages are similar but come on you need to learn thousands of words it takes hundreds to thousands of hours of consuming content in the given language. Grammar is easy in these languages (compared to for example russian (extreme example) and even german languages as there are so many exceptions)

I felt sorry for learners of Japanese language by looking at this video espacially on keigo, kenjogo and sonkei go .. our language should be super annoying..

I am a native Japanese speaker and I also speak Chinese and some Korean. Between Chinese and Japanese, Chinese is much easier to learn. This is because Chinese has no verb conjugations, so you can construct sentences like arranging dominoes. On the other hand, Japanese has significant changes in word order and verb conjugations. Korean and Japanese are similar, but I think Korean is easier to study because it has fewer variations in characters.

To a native Serbian speaker, Bulgarian sounds like trying speaking Serbian without the knowledge of the grammar.

Mozambican is the best

I’m a native Polish speaker and I have never formally studied Russian. However, I watch some Russian KZfaqrs and I can understand most of what is being said without subtitles. Of course sometimes there are words I have to look up but I suppose that is to be expected.

Wow, this was a very thorough analysis. As a learner of Vietnamese and a teacher of English, I appreciate how accurately you framed everything. Especially pronouns and vowels. My wife's family are from Quảng Nam in central Vietnam and it's almost like having to learn the entire IPA vowel chart to learn each dialect of Vietnamese.

Now Ukrainian reality is from me. In Ukraine, more than 75% of people speak Russian in everyday life, with some insertions of Ukrainian words. This language is called Surzhik. Ukrainian is used only on TV and as a political language. 100% of Ukrainians understand Russian. Even residents of western Ukraine. Ukrainian is used in everyday life by no more than 25% of Ukrainians. Although this figure is most likely less. Recently, because of the war, people specifically speak Ukrainian, but it’s more like a flash mob that is gradually passing. Even the most notorious Ukrainian nationalists speak Russian at home. This is very funny. If you ask Ukrainians what their native language is, they will answer Ukrainian. This answer will be given even by those who have spoken only Russian all their lives. Therefore, all these Ukrainian polls mean nothing in reality. Moreover, if you find yourself among Ukrainian refugees in any country, you will be convinced that outside the cells they will also speak only Russian. Russian and Ukrainian are two branches of the Old Russian language.

My first foreign language i was forced to learn german. I am comfortable in speaking german, and can understand when someone speaks fast. After that i started learning Spanish, 3 months later i can have not so fluent but long conversations with spanish speakers. after 6 months or more i will hop on to portuguese while still learning spanish. I cannot express how joyful it is to learn new language. How i learn spanish is simple. I am busy person, so i walk to work everyday and listen to audio course on spanish. This way i get my both physical and mental workout

I think this is incredibly wonderful content and education. I'd go as far as therapeutic... Thank you!

You’ve spent so many years studying Slavic languages, and you have not managed to learn that Ukraine has no article THE, that its capital is Kyiv, not Kiev, and that the language of Belarus is Belarusian, not belorussian ? Wow! Such a scholar!

好好笑 明明是越南请中国人去治理，在现代却因为政治篡改历史。怼我就是你对。

As China is going to be more aggressive, the relationship with most of democracy countries is getting worse everyday, and their economy is also getting worse everyday, I don't think learning Chinese is a good idea nowadays. When I want to learn a new language, the most important thing is, I really need to learn this language or I want to learn this language to find more opportunity.

Greetings from Slovenia. Very interesting and well presented! Can't imagine how much effort went into this vid :D good job.

Thank so much Over thousands of years, many writing styles have changed, Chinese characters, variations of Chinese characters, Latin characters, but Vietnamese voice has not changed at all. For example, in the past, we held documents in Chinese but copied and read them in Vietnamese. Now we use Latin but the voice has not changed, Vietnamese is an important part that helps us preserve our identity and maintain our independence.

video starts at 1:32

我昨天去商店了 我昨天去了商店 昨天我去商店 我去商店了昨天 昨天去商店 去商店了昨天 昨天去了商店

**Mandarin

The tonal variations between Northern, Central and Southern Vietnamese accents, I like to compare them to the UK English - "proper" British (Northern), Irish (Southern) vs Scottish / Welsh (Central). The Central dialect is difficult, in the same way most English speakers have a hard time understanding Welsh or Scottish "English". There's also accented variants - like Bac 54 (North 54) - those who fled North Vietnam to the South in 1954, when Vietnam was divided. You'll find a lot of the Vietnamese diaspora (refugee / migrant communities) in Western countries - like US, Europe, Australia etc, speak mostly this Bac 54 accent - it's also considered the most "correct" pronunciation of the Vietnamese language - because Northerners often don't pronounce properly the "r" and have a z pronunciation for r, "d" (there are 2 d's in the Vietnamese alphabet) and "gi" - while the South tend to not pronounce their Vs properly (instead it sounds like a y sound) and pronounce their n and nh as the English ng Examples: in Southern Vietnamese pronunciations, Thien (sky/heaven) sounds like Thieng, Anh (big brother) sounds like the English "Ang" and Viet Nam is spoken as Yiet Nam, or vui (happy) sounds like youi.

Mandarin pronunciation is much harder than Japanese.

You have done an excellent video about Vietnam. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge.

I was surprise when i knew students have to learn a lot of grammars and vocabulary many years in their school in USA. We learn spelling Vietnamese language and basic grammars such as question phase, negative sentence, comma, period. all those just for basic not dive deep, Correct writing is emphasized gather than pronunciation in school. After 2nd grade we are no longer learn grammars and vocabulary. We have main subject in school is literature which learn everyday. reading essays and the teacher guides how to write essays and then correct it. We have to do it for the remaining 10 years of school. That how we learn to know to describe and say things logical. I just say we don't have gramma technically as long as we say and write it logical, make sense and enough information. Concepts such as present continuous, past perfect, ect ... those are very new to us. I don't know how about other languages.

As a Czech....have you seen the grammar of slavic languages....Like almost all of us have weird rules. Still I hate that these two: i, y have the same pronunciation and you have to remember all the rules. 😑

Slovenians understand Serbo-Croatian as we can understand 80% Slovak language. Also some Russian words are same as in Slovenia

Du Ma

Chinese is quite easy for Vietnamese speakers

The pronoun system is very complicated. Not every family adopts the same system. The North and the South got their own systems and sub-systems. I have to face a bigger challenge than most Vietnamese for being half-Chinese 😂 The relatives on the Chinese side, the relatives on Vietnamese side 😂

You are knowledgeable, but you need more practice getting the tones right.

Whatever anyone says the mother language of all slavic languages is old Bulgarian or the so called "Church Slavonic ". But Bulgarian has evolved alot over time and now russian sounds more old Bulgarian that regular nowadays Bulgarian does. Respect Bulgaria, the mother of all slavic languages 🇧🇬♥️♥️♥️

Im vietnamese n i dont know why im watching this video

Anyone who studied Japanese and Chinese knows that Japanese is way, way more difficult language.

THE CHINESE IN MACAU ARE ALSO USE THE TRADITIONAL FORM OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

AS A CHINESE, I FEEL THE GRAMMAR OF WESTERN LANGUAGE IS DIFFICULT. I OFTEN GO WRONG IN GRAMMAR

AS A CHINESE, I FEEL THE WESTERN PHONICS WRITING IS DIFFICULT. I OFTEN FORGOTTEN THE SPELLING OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY

AS A CHINESE, I FEEL THE WESTERN PHONICS WRITING AND GRAMMAR ARE DIFFICULT

HOW THE CHINESE LEARN THE TONE OF THE WORDS？ THE CHINESE DO NOT LEARN THE TONE DELIBERATELY. THEY LEARN THE READING VOICE OF THE CHINESE CHARACTERS, WORD BY WORD. THEN, THEY HAVE LEARNED THE TONE OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

AS A CHINESE, I JUST KNOW ABOUT 500 COMMON CHINESE CHARACTERS BUT THAT IS ENOUGH FOR READING BOOKS AND NEWSPAPER

The Hue accent sounds nice, the Southern one sounds awful.

Vietnamese is pretty to learn. The people are amazing, great family value and overall cool. Nothing really bad I can say about Vietnamese people, except they have a culture of being late.

As native Ukrainian speaker I must correct you - Ukrainian does have a vocative case, so 7 in total.

I searched up and found this video because people online often called me out that I sound like Indonesian, even though I'm Thai.

I'm not sure you are aware, but you are pronouncing it "VietMaNese". I listened to it several times over the first 7 minutes. I'm curious about that...whether it's deliberate or if there's some nuance I'm not aware of.

white teacher lmao

Are you constantly saying vietmanese instead of Vietnamese? Or am I mis-hearing

#4 might be the reason why the Viets found communism so compelling. 😂

That flag at the start of the video does not represent Vietnam Nam. The yellow flag with the 3 red stripes does. Other than that your video is very informative. Danke schön.

Vietnamese being a language from the East with the alphabet from the West literally allows me as Vietnamese to learn English, French (barely) , Japanese (N3) easily and i counts that as a blessing 😊

japanese 因为我会说拆腻子