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 [...]
By Mildred Loving (1939-2008)
When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn’t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married.
We didn’t get married in Washington because we wanted to marry there. We did it there because 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 a bit of progress in Vietnamese. The tones are still a little hard - but, there’s only one that is really causing me any real trouble, the one called dấu nặng, it’s the dot you see under a vowel. My tutor noticed that when I say the word xe đạp (bicycle), I [...]
I think this is the new theme I’m going to use…I just need to create a new header image instead of the default one, and I need to do a little editing of the theme to make it work just how I want.
I have trouble understanding people losing hope in the current adoption situation.
As I said in a previous post, the current situation is definitely uncertain and tenuous and stressful and emotional. But, it is not a time to lose hope. It is a time to push on and work to make progress. I have been in [...]
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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 [...]