Vietnamese+(Vietnam)

Vietnamese

=Cháo - Hello! =

Basic overview:
 * Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam, and is also spoken in parts of Cambodia and China.
 * It is classified as an Austro-asiatic language, and uses a latin script.
 * Its dialects include Northern Vietnamese (Hanoi), Central Vietnamese (Hue), and Southern Vietnamese (Saigon), but the northern dialect Hanoi is the accepted normal, and Central vietnamese is quite different than the other two.
 * There are over 80 million speakers world wide, and 73 million are native to Vietnam.





[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQIiLt7bquE] - Youtube Video of Common Phrases

[] - Youtube Video of traditional Vietnamese Music

Relationship to English:
 * The Vietnamese language uses a latin script, just like english, but it has 39 letters and lacks F, J, W and Z.
 * Vietnamese has 6 tones, which are signified by different markings, so one "word" can mean 6 different things based on the accent mark.
 * It is an analytic language, and relies heavily on sentence structure and word order.



[] - Link to source to help learn Vietnamese

[] - Vietnamese Pronunciation

[] - Crucial phrases and pronunciation