Learn Vietnamese Part 9 Some Family Terms

[mickeylehuynh]

Your Vietnamese is better than my English:))

[vuxuanhung]

wow! I'm vietnamese, and I confirm your vietnamese voice is so natural

[MagicMaximo]

@vuxuanhung Thank you for your kind comments.

[YoungYangsta]

con ut hai la con ca?

are you the youngest or are you a fish?. xDD

[MagicMaximo]

@YoungYangsta haha! Yes, gotta be care with the tone on the one!

[BabixStarr]

How does one address her father-in-law?

[anhthang1712]

con cả : is commonly used in the North, and " con đầu" is usually spoken in the South.

con cả = con đầu

[quangly6]

You are still passionate in teaching Vietnamese while married to a Filippino. That's awsome and hard to explain.

[ChibiDr3amz]

Wow, your vietnamese is pretty good!

[nguyenthithoainghi]

Dear Sir,

I love your video. Thanks for teaching a very difficult language like "Tieng Viet". I just want to sent you this small comment.

When you want to say "OR" you should say " HAY"

EX:

Instead of say " Anh la con ut (hai) la con ca?" you must say " Anh la con ut (hay) la con ca?"

Hai: number 2 (sound likes Hi)

Hay: or ( sound likes [Hei])

Cam on nhieu lam!

[MagicMaximo]

Thank you for your helpful comments. I really don't mind being corrected. That's the way I learn.

[blkfirsprk]

Oh whoops, I guess bon wouldn't make sense for third child since bon is four. I was tired and wired on caffiene when I wrote that.

mot, hai, ba, bon, nam, sau, bay, tam, chin, I forgot how to spell ten.

[aznworld1]

its not gieeeaa its like za dinh u speak it out like that

[somebodyquiet]

it depends on where you're from in Vietnam

[nokonoko90]

Sir. You have 2 part 9'es and no part 7.

Of your video about Vietnamesche.

Excuse me for my incorrect spelling i'm Dutch.

[thitheomamruot]

All those posting "anh" hai, ba, tu, etc... as first, second, third, etc child are incorrect. "Anh" is the term that younger siblings use to identify an older brother, male cousin, or respectfully to an unrelated male peer.

[ThienHaLe]

third child is: Anh tu

[whitelotus77]

Eldest Child: Anh Hai

Second Child:Anh Ba

Third Child:????

Im viet and those are terms for the siblings

[AleexKhangViet]

Third Child:Anh Tu or Bác Tu

Fourth Child:Anh Nam or Bac Nam

and it continues

[blkfirsprk]

Whys the third child not Anh bon, geez are the numbers different in northern and southern.

[cyclops2108]

the numbers are the same, it's just in the northern they start at one for the oldest person, while in the southern they start at two/second for the oldest one.

[MagicMaximo]

Wow! No, I didn't know that.Thanks for sharing!

[whitelotus77]

chao ong hai qua

forgive my spellin im vietnamese

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks so much for your helpful comments.

[qtran678]

oh I forgot this. They also use "con đầu lòng" (first born child), con trai đầu lòng, con gái đầu lòng.

I don't know if you know that the north name the child order like this: anh cả, anh hai, anh ba, anh tư etc

and in the south, they started out with "hai", for example: anh hai (first child), anh ba, anh tư

Isn't that weird? :D

[qtran678]

people in the south usually don't use the phrase "con cả"

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks for the comment. What word is used for the youngest child?

[qtran678]

The south also use "con út" for the youngest, but I heard most people use "con lớn" for the oldest. For example: con trai lớn của tôi (my oldest son).

by the way, your Vietnamese is excellent. I really admire you

[hct1802]

yeah he's correct, I've only heard con lớn for the oldest, not con ca :S

[cusuconalgon]

chao

[aloquyenday]

How many languages can you speak? Ông nói được mấy thứ tiếng vậy? Ông giỏi lắm :)

[MagicMaximo]

Cam on. Toi noi tieng Viet, tieng anh, tieng phi-li-pin (Tagalog) tieng tay-ban-nha (I forgot how to say Spanish in Vietnamese but this word pops into my mind!) Toi rat thich hoc tieng ngoai quoc!

[letters7777]

"tiếng ngoại quốc" is also correct but we usually say "ngoại ngữ" instead. (Sorry I'm not teaching you)

Thank you for your videos. I love my language and I'm glad you love it too.

[MagicMaximo]

no, you're the expert. I am glad to learn from you. Thanks for the helpful comments.

[stwabewy]

you're right, spanish is tieng tay ban nha (tay ban nha means spain), and it's also informally called tieng me for mexican. where'd you learn all your vietnamese? props to you for learning so many languages, it's pretty cool :)

[travpoet]

Do you know how to say "Canadian" ??

I've been there, and I'd love to go back some time...knowing how to say I'm Canadain would be great!

Thank you!

[stwabewy]

A Canadian person is "người Gia Nã Đại" (proper) and improperly it's just "người Ca Na Đa" haha hope that helped.

[travpoet]

stwabewy - Thanks! It does help!

I especially like knowing the improper version...it's so funny ;-)

[cyclops2108]

actually no one is using the proper version anymore in vietnam, it's too much to remember lol. the improper version is more simple.

[airbladefuture]

Yah nice!Your Vietnamese is kinda well, maybe you got Vietnamese dialect. But I wanna say something, I'm Vietnamese, and nowadays the Vietnamese rarely use word "Phi Luật Tân". That word's so antique, and I even don't know what is that country exactly, maybe Philippine :D

[MagicMaximo]

Hey, thanks for the comments. I always want to learn what's understandable and what's not. I've also heard Filipinos called "nguoi phi " Have you heard that one. If not, what do you call "Filipino" in tieng Viet?

[aloquyenday]

Yeah, you got it right. In Vietnamese, filipino is "Người Phi" hoặc "Người Phi líp pin" (hope you can pronounciate it). Your Vietnamese pronunciation is perfect!!!!

[aloquyenday]

Have you ever been to Vietnam?

[nalmun]

actually, "Phi Luat Tan" means philippin, nowaday, nobody uses that word any more

[Dowee89]

nice try man... I got everythang you said

[DestFinis]

Em la con ut - I'm the youngest child in my family of five children. Anyway, your pronunciation is very understandable even if it's not in the accent that my family speaks (they're from the south in Vietnam). I appreciate your learning or a language not spoken by the masses of the world. Thanks for this video.

[GuardianDemonX]

acutally not many ppl wanna learn chinese, most ppl wanna learn japanese and korean becuz they love korean and japanese music

[muffdriver69]

Vietnamese language is probably one of the least favorable languages people want to learn generally. Most favorable is Japanese and the Chinese language today. Now where's my flame proof suit. Anyway, good to see a rare person teaching Vietnamese. You don't get many people like MagicMaximo.

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks for your comments. People have different reasons for learning languages..traveling, business, boyfriends/girlfriends, etc. So, in my humble opinion, what language is "most or least favorable" depends on the motivating goal. :=)

[muffdriver69]

It's good that you speak of motivating goal to learn vietnamese. But did you know that some chinese who live in vietnam refuse to learn the vietnamese language and therefore refuse to communicate with the vietnamese locals at all? Even they forbid their vietnam born children to speak vietnamese. There are many reasons why this is the cause, but maybe the main instinctive reason is because vietnam is inferior language?

[MagicMaximo]

It's interesting that you mention that. I remember I was in the "Cho Lon" area and the people there (Chinese) insisted that I speak to them in Chinese or English. They didn't want to speak in Vietnamese. I always wondered about that.

[KatiushaVN4]

muffcriver69:

You fool don't know a thing. It's because the Chinese in Vietnam are discriminated by the Vietnamese government and those Chinese are monitored all the time by the Vietnamese government. Why? Because of the Sino-Viet War, and because the Vietnamese don't want the Chinese to spread out widely like in most of the countries in S.E Asia. That's why the Chinese in Vietnam start to hate Vietnamese people. Next time, if you don't know, you'd better stand still and just listen. No barking!

[muffdriver69]

@KatiushaVN4 thanks for your opinion, as it is just that.

[Kawii06]

I have to say I love what you are doing its very helpful.My boyfriend is Vietnamese and he told me to watch you because he only knew how to speak the language. He claims that he doesn't know much only enough to speak to his parents (and or others). He speaks perfect English and has no accent even tough his parents are immigrants. I'm not sure about this but viet seems to be a little easier then Japaneses correct me if I'm wrong.

[MagicMaximo]

Like all languages, there are easier parts and harder parts. Thanks for the comments.

[el87nos]

if u're wanting to learn japanese or vietnamese or just asking out of curiousity. i think vietnamese is much harder. i've been taking japanese for several years, and having learned vietnamese as a first language, i think it's a much harder language to speak. But as for writing, it's more straightforward than japanese.

[KentuckyFriezPanda]

Japanese hard part is that their writing of romanization isn't official and syllable can be tough just to pronounce one meaning at a time. Vietnamese official writing system is romanization and all you have to do is get your tone right since all words are 1 syllables h/o they can be really hard if your not native.

[bietphailamsao]

nice job!! your pronunciation is good!

[JayCei23]

still watching your vids...I love them.. My family is vietnamese but I'm white and I live on my own...never learned the language now I wished I had because when I visit they all speak vn and I can't :( also, I know a girl who is vn and I would love to surprise her one day by speaking w/ her :D

[Penguines]

My family how they do it is number for the relative. Aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, children. They say it from the first born which starts at one or two. Not really sure. It goes all the way down. Depending on how many children there were it goes down to that number. My dad was 3. So my family refers to him as 3rd. Ong Ba. I think. Not really sure. I never really thought about Vietnamese much. It's fluent for me so I don't have to think about it when I speak or that I'm butchering it. Nice video.

[Penguines]

I saw a dictionary and how they pronounce it and "yell" isn't really the word that I learned it.

[Penguines]

How I say family is

"YAA Dinh"

The AA is like the word "yell" in Vietnamese. LAA

[bonfirree]

Con ca, I've never heard of that one. Eldest child could also be con đầu [more common], as in head, literally translate into head child in English and tranlates into eldest/oldest child in Vietnamese.

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks for your helpful comments.

[huecitylite]

"con cả" (northern) - "con lớn" or "con đầu" (central or southern).

[CAPITALIST1000000000]

Very good. You have a northern accent (nguoi bac).

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks for your comments. Yes, my Vietnamese teacher was from the north.

[supliladolf]

i know an American guy slang in vietnamese lol, he has a south-viet accent.

[danglong77]

between the oldest and the youngest is : con thu

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks. I didn't know that! Yeah, I love learning something new!

[kucerarich]

These videos will help me a lot, I might remember something :-) Encouraging...

Thx

[rewritable]

you pronouce pretty good though

[KCVHenry]

Thank you Bud Brown for posting these video's, i'm really learning more from my Vietnamese heritage. Keep up the good work

[kakoen]

Thanks a bundle, Mr Brown. I'm not American, neither am I Vietnamese, I'm a French sixty-year-old student who's having difficulties with learning the tones of the language. Your videos are a great help to me.

Cam o'n ong.

[danamazon]

The oldest child is con ca You need to draw out the "a" sound like in "dad". Eliminate the "o" sound like in "tall."

[MagicMaximo]

Thank you for your helpful comments.

[duth67]

ong noi tieng vietnam rat ranh va giong noi cua ong phat am tu mien nam nghe rat ro

[MagicMaximo]

Cam on nhieu!

[xxxkcbxxx]

very good work... im vietnamese but you can speak it better then me im 23 lol

[MagicMaximo]

Thanks. :=)

[aznb0y00]

dam duble2me kool thanx i neva new dat i now 1& 2

[MagicMaximo]

very good! thanks!

[Bdog]

did you stay in vietnam for 6 months ors omthing? i feel like i met you when i went to vietnam

[MagicMaximo]

The last time I was in Vietnam was Aug 1971..a loooooooooooooooong time ago!:=) I really would like to return in the near future.

[Xytos]

you seem to have a mixed accents from southern and northern... great Vietnamese!

[MagicMaximo]

You're absolutely right! My teacher was from the north and I lived in the south. Plus, I'm sure I have an American accent! Choi oi!

[poohbearfreak77]

youngest sipling is pronounced con ut(ut is pronounced oop but the p is almost silent

[AAparallel]

your pronunciations use the southern consonant sounds. he uses the northen consonant sounds, so the "gi" sound is pronounced like the american z sound and the t in ut is actually pronounced

[poohbearfreak77]

when you say family its pronounced ya din

[Bdog]

your vietnamese is better than mine, good for you :]

[rednick06]

About the name of the Country..like Filipin..just say filipin..That's the way I know..don't try to change it to VTN because each part of the country said it differently..great job!

[MagicMaximo]

Thank you vienxu! That's it. You're hired as my official interpreter! When are we going to tour Vietnam? :=)

[MagicMaximo]

Yes, thanks for the corrections. I appreciate them I understand exactly what you're saying(chup anh??..what was I thinking!) P.S. While I have your ear..what's the difference between "cai nay HAY cai kia" and "cai nay HOAC LA cai kia". After reviewing the video I noticed I said both and I don't know why? (I'm nuts!)

[vienxu]

Hay and Hoac are basically synonyms . For example , ''Are you American or British ?'' which can be translated as 'Anh la nguoi My Hay La nguoi Anh ' or 'Anh la nguoi My Hoac La nguoi Anh' . But ''Hoac' is commonly used in sentence that used the words ''either or in English ''And the word ' Hay' has more meanings

Phim Hay = good movie

Toi Hay di choi = i often go out

[vienxu]

'Chup anh' is a verb meaning ''to photograph'' or to take pictures buc anh , buc hinh , tam anh or buc hinh , all these nouns mean picture or photo

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

the word "or" is "hay" not "hai" (just one more fyi...)

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

Thanks for the nice video! One thing: "chup anh" is more "to take a picture"...the classifier for picture is "buc", so we say "mot buc anh"... (it is the you that "u" with the "hook" on it and it is in "sac" tone...anh has a "hoi"). You pronounced "con ut" and "con ca" perfectly!!!

[MagicMaximo]

thx! :=)

[xXjiraiyakidXx]

nguoi nhat is japanese xDDD

Great vid =]