We got our first snowfall earlier this week, about 4 or so inches. Supposed to get another inch today and maybe 2-4 more tomorrow.
Ok, winter, we’ve said hello and now I’m ready for Spring!
The Vietnamese word for snow is tuyết, pronounced kind of like too-yit, but sometimes sounds more like twit or tweet depending on [...]
I haven’t posted an update on my journey to learning Vietnamese in a while.
It’s actually going pretty good. We have moved on from learning sounds/tones and are concentrating more on reading, vocabulary, and listening. Though, I’m always continuing to practice the sounds with my tutor – I’m getting much better, but still have issues with [...]
Last week we started on book 2 of the series I’m using to learn Vietnamese. The first 1/3 or so of this book continues presenting letter combinations and the sounds they make. Then, it moves on to some grammar rules, pronouns…those kinds of things.
Last week my tutor told me my pronunciation was improving – enough [...]
I started my lessons on March 22, ‘08. Every Saturday (except for maybe 3) for 2 hours my tutor, Hà, comes over to try to teach me Vietnamese. We started by using what is probably a 1st grade level text book that is used in schools in Viet Nam. It’s obviously designed to teach the [...]
I find the easiest way to put Vietnamese text into a blog post is to copy it from VDict. There are also programs for your computer that allow you to type in Vietnamese, but I find those are very slow for me to use.
If you know the Vietnamese word you are looking for, you enter [...]
I am making ok progress in Vietnamese. Granted, I’ve only had two 1 1/2 hour lessons so far. I’m pretty solid in the sounds of each letter and a couple of the letter combinations, but the tones….well, let’s just say they continue to elude me.
I have three of the tones down just fine. The rising [...]
It is very important to me that I be able to pass on as much Vietnamese culture and understanding to Parker as possible, assuming he shows an interest. I know it’s not going to be an easy task, and obviously the most I could hope for is for him to grow up with a sense [...]