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VIET NAM

Viet Nam – special symbols

Viet Nam - on the map

Viet Namese celebrations

• Moon festival –

• Spring Festival • Songkran Festival

Viet Namese

Cities Famous

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Viet Namese Cities – Hanoi – The capital!

• Is the Modern Capital of Viet Nam. It is full of ‘old’ Victorian style housing.

Viet Namese Cities - Hue

• Was the Imperial Capital of Viet Nam in the Nguyen Dynasty.

Viet Namese Cities - Dalat

• Dalat is a beautiful central city in the hills

Viet Namese Cities – Ho Chi Minh City

• Used to be called ‘Sai gon’, is very modern and has really tall buildings!

Viet Nam – Famous people and legends• Hoi Chi Minh – Famous

President 1951-69• Dinh Bo Linh – First Emperor of Viet Nam

– 968 AD

Viet Namese Language - Now

• 17th century, a French missionary named Alexandre de Rhodes developed Quoc Ngu, the Romanized Vietnamese alphabet that's used today.

• Unlike other languages in the region, Vietnamese looks almost readable to a Westerner• The system of accent marks is complex and pronunciation is difficult.

Vietnamese words are almost identical except for the marks mentioned above. These marks are essential for the written Vietnamese because the words are pronounced differently, and have different meanings.

• For example:

• ma ghost • ma' mother (southern accent) or cheek • ma` who, which, that, whom • ma? tomb • ma~ horse or appearance • ma. young rice seeding, or mother (central)

Viet Namese Language – In Ancient times was called Chu Nom

• Chu Nom

Miss Branch’s Viet Nam

Hoi An

Hoi An

Sai gon

Ha Long Bay

Speaking…• English Greetings Vietnamese Greetings: • Hi! chào • Good morning! chào buổi sáng • Welcome! (to greet someone) Chào mừng bạn • How are you? bạn có khỏe không?, khỏe chứ?• ( informal ) I'm fine, thanks! Cám ơn bạn tôi khỏe • And you? Bạn thì sao? • Good/ So-So. Tốt / cũng tàm tạm • Thank you (very much)! Cám ơn ( rất nhiều )• Goodbye Tam biet

• http://mylanguages.org/vietnamese_phrases.php