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How easy is it to learn Vietnamese?
Learning Vietnamese is neither hard nor easy. As we will see, many more aspects of Vietnamese grammar are dễ rather than khó. Realistically, it is more accurate to say that Vietnamese is mostly “an easy language” rather than “a hard language.” However, one aspect of Vietnamese, the pronunciation, is quite difficult.
What makes Vietnamese hard to learn?
Vietnamese. Why it’s hard: Vietnamese is a tonal language with six different tones that dictate the meaning of a word. The high number of vowel sounds also prove difficult for English speakers to nail down.
How long does it take to learn Vietnamese fluently?
According to the US’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI), for a native English speaker to be proficient in Vietnamese, it would take approximately 1,110 class hours. This means that if you dedicate 1 hour every day, 7 days a week to learn Vietnamese, you will be proficient after 40 months (~3 years).
How long does it take to learn to speak Vietnamese?
Can you learn Vietnamese in 1 year?
Having taught many people Vietnamese, I can see that most of my students can carry basic conversations after 4-6 months and may become fluent after 1 to 1.5 years of learning. That’s like half the amount of hours estimated by the FSI! Yes! You can definitely speed up your learning process by doing it smartly.
Is Vietnamese a hard language to learn?
In her view, Vietnamese is not harder than any other language to learn. But people tend to lack dedication because you can live a perfectly convenient life in Vietnam without speaking a word of the language.
Is it worth it to learn Vietnamese?
If your first language is English and you have been offered a job in Vietnam, for example, which involves working for an English speaking company, it’s still worth learning Vietnamese as it gives you more of a window onto Vietnam, which allows you to better integrate with Vietnamese people which may be good for your job.
What is the best way to learn spoken Vietnamese?
There are many ways to learn Vietnamese. You can learn from textbook, go to a language school, listen to Vietnamese music, watch Vietnamese movie,…But according to my experience successfully master two foreign language (English and Japanese).
How to read Vietnamese?
So, unlike Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Thai, Cambodian, Korean, Hindi, or dozens of other Asian languages, there’s no need to learn a new alphabet to read Vietnamese. All you have to do is learn a bunch of accent marks (technically “diacritics”), which are mostly used to denote tone, and you’ll be reading Vietnamese in no time.