Vowel sounds in Vietnamese

[isthaithedude]

I was born in Vietnam, left for the states at the age of 6. I actually attended first grade there but left half way. My speaking and comprehending in Vietnamese is almost perfect and I consider vietnamese as my first language, but I can't read or write in Vietnamese

[koyaainoregon]

I'm going to Vietnam tomorrow, so this helps me a lot! Thank you very much!

[MsDjessa]

Thank you so much for making this because i have had problem´s remembering the vowel´s. And you have a cute voice.

[MsDjessa]

I´m so glad you made this because the vowel´s have been tricky for me to memoryse.

[sulheocon97]

cảm ơn bài này nhaz ;)

[Lite619]

How do you pronounce your Last name? Nguyen! xD. helps me!

[41cookiesbabe]

@Lite619 New Yen. For English

[Lite619]

How do you pronounce your Last name: Nguyen! xD. helps me!

[Hardbeez]

Why Vietnamese sound so sexy?

[satsumamoon]

1:39 is not like book (unless you have a strong regional accent from Yorkshire).

Rather, this Viet 'u' sounds like ooh in English - as in the English words 'loo', 'poo', 'goo', 'food' or 'you'.

It's also like the French 'ou'; as in louvre, jour, mouton or oublier.

Keep up the good work!

[Azn2thpic]

Thanks this helped!

[albstralian]

wtf that is hard and complicated i never wanna learn vietnamese lol xD

[RainbowedTrickster]

@albstralian Actually, I think learning english is much harder. XD

I'm vietnamese, but I'm just learning how to write and read now. The words are simpler.

[animeeloverr12]

This helped :D

[CATtie397]

thanks for posting this! a few of the pronunciations seemed incorrect to me, but you did a good job with this video. :)

[bluedestiny]

u say an(eat) as "ang"

[Quagelicious]

this is south ascent

[lovestoryim]

ha ha yeah,she says so funny

[viiietdude]

@bluedestiny That's because she is from the south of Vietnam. There is heavy nasalisation, ie. ăn is pronounced as ăng.

[treeofheaven7393]

@bluedestiny It's because she's from the south. Southerners will prounce eat " ang " while the northerners will pronounce it " an ". It's just the accent. We ( southerners ) always put " g " after " n " when we pronounce.

[MUSICAMIA3]

thank you for your help..i've been wanting to go back and learn vietnamese...its just occured to me to look into youtube..thank you VictoriaVickieNguyen...or should I say "cam on em"---yes I think i am older than you...lol

[baochungit]

you sound "e" like "a"

[aiwozhonghua]

i have a question...

VictoriaVickyNguyen, i've heard ppl say "S" as in S and others in SH. which one is correct or it's just the dialect? I haven't been to the North. But the South say the "S" differently.. I remember a lesson that tells you to be careful when you spell words with S and X....

[chihao148]

@aiwozhonghua

Your roll your tongue more when you sound S than you sound X.

Actually, the language in Northern side of VN is the standard one. Southern Vietnamese sometimes pronounce S and X similarly.

[viiietdude]

@chihao148 You are half correct. The dialect of Hà Nội for historic and political reasons is the "national standard". Nonetheless, there are different standards depending on region. For example, the Huế dialect is the standard dialect for central Vietnam as Sài Gòn is the standard for south Vietnam.

Hanoi people pronounce s and x as x. The same is happening is south Vietnam.

[viiietdude]

@aiwozhonghua Nowadays in colloquial speech, people from all over Vietnam seem to pronounce s as x. S is the spelling pronunciation. It's called sound change, it happens in all languages.

[baozeng]

lol E not A  0:38

[VictoriaVickyNguyen]

That's just how I talk, it's my natural accent from Da Lat, south Vietnam

[chinesevietguy]

I think u got the pronounciation of "E" as in "Cha" wrong ."E" as in "Che" which means cover. The "E" sound like "eah" in "yeah" or "air" .E for Che and "A" for "cha".Anyway your voice is clear and I wish u do all of the vowels :) 5 stars.

[chinesevietguy]

I downloaded this program and there was no mention of q,ă,â in the Viet Alpabet ;(. It just covers a - x,and aint vowels letters start from a -y? example aăâeêioôơuưy?U forgot to mention y or this program I got is worng? Anyway great vid and pronounciation ,just wish U do the pronounciation accent and tone for all the vowels and examples. GREAT 5 stars.

[chinesevietguy]

u= as in Cu more easy to remember ;)

[satsumamoon]

0.57 seems incorrect to me.

You are actually pronouncing the viet 'i' as in the English "u" as in English 'bun or fun'

[VictoriaVickyNguyen]

yes, you are right, my example is incorrect, I should have given you the example of "i" as in "Kim" (pronounced keem) or as in "tin" (news, pronouced teen) in the video, the "i" sound is right, pronounce it like "ee", but ignore the example, there is no such word as bi`n in Vietnamese.  Thanks for being sharp...there is usually at least one mistake in each video, only two have been pointed out so far, this is one of them

[viiietdude]

@VictoriaVickyNguyen Actually, the letter i changes into an ư in Southern Vietnamese. Đà Nẵng is located in South Vietnam, and as such i is pronounced as ư (except when standing alone like in bì). ie. Southerners pronounce tin tức as tưn tức.

[satsumamoon]

Cam on! Thank you!

[anhluancuaem]

this kinda bothers me iono y aha xD

[mrpaul1112]

@anhluancuaem There are literally ZERO good vietnamese teaching videos on youtube.

[Jiffs]

Exactly what i was looking for, thank you very much. :)

[ngsuching]

How do you pronounce the 'a' with the question mark like sign above it?

[aiwozhonghua]

ngsuching, Well, when the Southerners speak, you can't really tell the difference between A~ and A? because they tend to talk fast. But the North, you can tell the difference. A~ is longer than A?. when you say A~, you should make the tone goes as it is indicated... ~ (curly like that). i don't know if you already knew the answer to this, but i hope i helped. lol!

[GoodAnime]

Thank you for the video! It helps a lot.

[CobaltDragons]

I love all your videos!

[GoodAnime]

Thank you for the video!! It helps a lot.

[seolma]

Thanks, i've bought a book to learn it but i forgot about the recordings so i'm learning thr pron' on youtube^^

[berenicescott1]

thanks for this because im really intersted to llearn viet nam

gracias por estos videos

[VictoriaVickyNguyen]

de nada!