Vietnamese Slang and Idioms #1: 5 common expressions in Vietnamese (Lesson 1) Video Lecture | Learn to speak Vietnamese (Basic Level)

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the first expression we can learn today
is day let's talk about pronunciation in
Vietnamese language is tone language so
it is very important for you to copy the
tone of the word exactly if you want to
make yourself understood as you listen
the word do carry a low tone which is
pronounced with a lower register so one
more time
join and then what I carries a neutral
tone the neutral tone doesn't exist in
writing but it does in pronouncing so
when you pronounce the tone you just
keep your voice in a straight line
don't raise or lower your tongue okay so
one more time do it so let's talk about
a meaning in Vietnamese the word die
means the sky or the supernatural and
the word is a function word which is
used when you want to call somebody for
example in English when you want to call
somebody you just simply call somebody's
name only like Peter or Steve but in
Vietnamese you have to add a word early
up to the name so we say my I or LAN
Holly so this expression joy I simply
means oh my god or oh my goodness it is
used to express
all right so this expression can be used
in a wide range of conversations so
let's look at some examples for example
when you you have a friend and she or he
is kind of nasty if you don't like he or
him or her at all so she or he always
gets on your nose so you can say
generally I crazy or an additive example
when you're a female co-workers wearing
a new dress and you want to pay a
compliment you can say do it and it can
go which means oh my god you're
extremely beautiful the second
expression is wickedly normally with
enemies people pronounce it rather fast
as MIT Utley in which the third word
thing seems longer and stronger than the
others but first let me show you how to
pronounce it slowly and accurately the
word me carries the highest tone in
Vietnamese
so we pronounce be and then the word the
word get with the same high tone so we
say yeah and then the third would put a
lower tone so we say leave as in done we
studied before so the whole expression
will be pronounced be yeah leave one
more time be yeah leave all right about
a meaning the word be means do you
understand or to know something
how can you say for example you say and
we can means I knew you or I know you
then the word yet means to die or to dad
to be dead the last word lean means
immediately so the whole expression
means literally means if I knew I would
die immediately so when you wanna say
that you don't know or you haven't heard
of something or someone you can say
wickedly it's a funny and exaggerated
way or not alright let's have some
examples I don't know much about
technology so one of my friends asked me
Oh have you heard of Galaxy s3
coming to Vietnam so my answer will be
wickedly so another example is you meet
a Vietnamese girl you happen to like her
but then you realize that she's not the
one so you decided not to keep in touch
with her but then by accident you meet
her on the street so she comes to you
artists are you take United no no no I'm
not not then she asks you again do you
know me
do you say wickedly and then run away I
hope that you won't get in such a
situation another expression I want to
introduce you today is hen suey this
expression is kind of easier to
pronounce than the two expressions of or
both of two words carries the neutral
tone hen soon
one more time hen suey
so I hope that they won't get any
trouble with the tone it's
expression so let me repeat one more
time and soui okay then let me explain
about it meaning the word hand with the
neutral tone is spoken in this world
normally we don't gives it much in great
and right writing but it spoke at Middle
East it is very common especially in the
south of Vietnam this word means lucky
at that the second word
Suey put the neutral tone to you has the
opposite day meaning unlucky so when it
go together can you guess the meaning
yeah
the meaning is you're not sure or you
don't want to say something in advance
or it's very difficult for you to
predict something okay so to help you
better memorize it I have some examples
first two of your police or in love and
come a couple another clue me ask you do
you think that that relationship will
last long you can say and so we
Siddhant your classmate asked you about
the result of the same any do you think
that you will pass this day but I did
not a really good job in that it's
saying so I'm not sure about a result
right so I can say hustling let me say
there are many many more situations for
you to apply this expression whenever
you receive a question and you want to
express you want to show something and
serve 10 the next expression I recommend
you to learn in Vietnamese language is
but I it is very very common among young
people and nowadays it even spread south
to older people even my mom likes to use
it
ok so let's discuss how to pronounce it
and what does it mean the first word Bob
carries the highest tone in Vietnamese
language as in big oh yeah
we studied before you still remember
right so we say Bob one more time Bob
this word means too tight or too
attached and then the second word by
carries the neutral tone as in a or hand
or soui which did it before this word
means that means hand or arm all right
so the whole expression literally means
to tight your hands
okay so can you imagine that when your
hands are tight what will happen yeah
chances are there is nothing you can do
or you just give up doing something
sometimes we Vietnamese people combine
the expression ma bow tie with the first
one who stood it the earth so we can say
do it
hi MA hi so one more time faster do it
Oh a bow tie okay here are some examples
for you one very beautiful day I feel
like when I cook something for my daddy
but I'm not a good cook you know then
the dish takes back after that I ask my
mom for help
so she's tasted I replied
both I which means that there is no cure
from a dish another example is I have
one roommate this really really callous
there always borrows my stuff and
destroys them
last night she borrowed my mini mirror
and then had it broken
I was very upset because he's so so so
Palace so I said to her the last
expression for today is called toy let's
talk about the pronunciation first this
expression consists of three words the
first cone can raise the curve or wavy
town in my opinion this is the most
difficult home in Vietnamese language so
please be careful when you pronounce it
we have gotten one more time come the
second word who carries the low tone
in done or leave so we can say who one
more time
cool the last word Poli carries the
neutral tone as in early or die or hen
suey
so we can pronounce toy one more time
poet okay so the home expressions can be
pronounced as oh cool toy one more time
oh cool toys okay so let's talk about a
meaning the first word poem has several
meanings in Vietnamese but in this
expression it means you wanna implies
that something is not better than what
we already saw knew the second word who
is the short form of the word winter
which means that what means something
just normal or average or mean and the
last toy is a fashion world
we used to emphasize or confirm that
something we mentioned before is nothing
than normal okay so let's have a look on
some context that you can apply this
expression for example you have you have
some seven several venomous girls
friends and then they pay a compliment
to you such as too early and if Tigra
which means oh my god you so handsome
so you try to be to pretend that you are
modest
you say oh boy she means no no not I'm
just now more okay but the important
thing is when you say this expression
you are 75% modest and 25% proud to do
not 100% modest
okay so the second example is your
coworker pays a compliment to a girl but
you don't like that girl so you don't
want to admit that she's pretty or she
pristine we prettier than you so you say
Oh
goat oh boy which means oh she's just no
more she's not a morning me okay
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