kianegon
French expat in Thailand
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French
Registration: 07 March 2019
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Thieves, robbers and any other species of them... by Sorin.d
I have a nice bad story and experience, which I want to talk about for a bit. The story is started somewhere in December, when one guy tried to steal my phone, from my hands, not far from the way where I live in HCM. I knew, around Christmas time ...
Never stay in tourist place as an expat :-) . Thailand/Cambodia are very safe for expat tourist. Vietnam is closer to what you have in Europe. This being said like in Europe most of the trouble occurs in the tourist place. Tourists are the perfect ... Read More
Learn Vietnamese by dscherwitzel
Hi, My wife and I am are keen on learning Vietnamese to talk and write and read as we shall be moving to Hanoi for work in a few months. Do you have any recommendations for us and anyone that could do this with us over Skype? Thanks & ...
Yes learning take several weeks, the way I did it is : - read texts in English doing only one tone. Like read but doing a low tone on each syllable. Doing tone is muscular control. None tonal language has, in fact, tone but they are not fixed on ... Read More
Learn Vietnamese by dscherwitzel
Hi, My wife and I am are keen on learning Vietnamese to talk and write and read as we shall be moving to Hanoi for work in a few months. Do you have any recommendations for us and anyone that could do this with us over Skype? Thanks & ...
On PC Praat is a good tool and free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praat It is used by the therapist/researcher mostly. On the phone ( easier to use than the PC) I am using "voice analyst " a 5$ app. My Vietnamese teacher was ... Read More
Learn Vietnamese by dscherwitzel
Hi, My wife and I am are keen on learning Vietnamese to talk and write and read as we shall be moving to Hanoi for work in a few months. Do you have any recommendations for us and anyone that could do this with us over Skype? Thanks & ...
The difference in tone between the different region will translate to different patterns with the voice analyzer. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Vietnamese_phonology#/Six-tone_analysis Read More
Learn Vietnamese by dscherwitzel
Hi, My wife and I am are keen on learning Vietnamese to talk and write and read as we shall be moving to Hanoi for work in a few months. Do you have any recommendations for us and anyone that could do this with us over Skype? Thanks & ...
Tone are variations in pich/ frequency. A voice analyzer shows you those variations. Each tone has a pattern, so it is pretty useful for checking your pronunciation in real-time. Like at the beginning of my training, I was thinking I was doing ... Read More
Learn Vietnamese by dscherwitzel
Hi, My wife and I am are keen on learning Vietnamese to talk and write and read as we shall be moving to Hanoi for work in a few months. Do you have any recommendations for us and anyone that could do this with us over Skype? Thanks & ...
To test your Vietnamese pronunciation you can use a voice analyzer. Tons are variation in pich, a voice analyzer show them to you allowing for direct feedback Read More
looking for Vietnamese Lessons in Thu Dau Mot by iremhan
Hello! I have been living and teaching English in Thu Dau Mot for more than a year now. I am interested in learning Vietnamese but my attempts of self-learning is going so slow. I am looking for a center or an individual to teach me. In the case of ...
I started to do in School, but going there was time consuming. Now I just do Duolingo and online lesson. No secret for learning language, the results are directly proportional to the amount of hour you put into it. Whatever method you use (app, ... Read More
Why don't Vietnamese understand Vietnamese spoken by a foreigner? by I do believe
Having lived in Vietnam for 6 years and studied Vietnamese at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities it never ceases to amaze me that if I speak and pronounce a Vietnamese phrase perfectly to most Vietnamese, they don't understand me. ...
Very long thread so perhaps this has already been said. But I have found that for the Thai language, showing that you could write help a lot. If someone was not understanding, I would start writing, seeing that I could write magically they would ... Read More