Vietnamese Learning/Appreciation Thread - Talking to trees are cool and so is blasting Fortunate Son and cursing in a Northern Vietnamese accent

[NaggotFigger]

Brief PL:

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I am a national Vietfag.

So, I have been speaking it for since I was a child, and it was fun and interesting to speak with other people of my blood in a Central/Southern-esque dialect with a inconsistent usage of Northern, Central and South Vietnamese words at the same time. Here they do not discriminate regardless of your dialect, North or South. Also, it is okay for us to admire Vietnam war memes and blasting Fortunate Son or femdom memes. Vietniggers are massive shitposters and are proficient at cursing at your parents and family. If you speak it, you prove that you are a thằng giang hồ siêu nhây đệ nhất ha.
Also, my Vietnamese is not smooth, much comparable to an overseas Vietnamese retard (Việt Kiều) that uses English as their main language.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

How many cumbodian women have you rizzed up?

 

[NaggotFigger]

How many cumbodian women have you rizzed up?

As much as we kick ass against the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot back in '79.

 

[Vect]

I like Vietnamese culture but the language isn't exactly music to the ears. Every time I hear it spoken it's like a mosquito singing with a bad cold.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

How many dong am I gonna get with that?

 

[NaggotFigger]

How many dong am I gonna get with that?

999 billion đồng for unlimited bánh mì, phở, bún đậu mắm tôm, bánh xèo, bánh bèo, bánh cuốn, bún bò Huế and the list goes on.

 

[Breadbassket]

Is it easier or harder to learn then Chinese?

 

[NaggotFigger]

Is it easier or harder to learn then Chinese?

Vietnamese is between easy and hard because of its usage of its own Latin based from Romance language originally developed by a Portuguese missionary according to some sources. Mainly modernized by Frenchoids in the late 19th century when it becomes French Indochina, thus replacing Literary Chinese. It is going to be hard for foreigners and English-speaker mastering Vietnamese, max/min 44 weeks to master this rather unpleasant and nasal-sounding language. You mainly end up speaking either Northern/Central/Southern Vietnamese dialect as a foreigner. In Vietnamese we call them Quốc Ngữ, and some Vietnamese words still uses Hán, Nôm and Nho. Quốc Ngữ was then modified by a French missionary.
Northern and Central dialect tend to sound more louder and boastful than the more quiet and soft-sounding southern accent. Mainly foreigners that want to say hi to Vietnamese people, they always say "xin chào" and needs a person that has a grasp on Vietnamese to help communicate for them.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

Pho. I like Pho. I really like Pho. I really fucking like Pho.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

Pho. I like Pho. I really like Pho. I really fucking like Pho.

Cosign. It is the #1 thing to ever come out of 'Nam. Why is it that the tetchier the owner and more ghetto his shop is, the better the pho?

Though since we got an actual Viet-kiwi here, let me ask, is pho as we Westerners know really considered a regional dish in Vietnam, like we only know one style of it?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I had a math teacher in high school, Mr. Tran, who was born right as the war was ending, so he grew up dirt poor under communism. Had some survival stories he'd rattle on about instead of teaching lol, mentioned stealing his neighbor's chicken to feed the family one night, said he didn't feel bad about it simply because she was a catty bitch.

Got into the army to escape the country, essentially, and married his wife whose maiden name was Tran. We all went "wut" until he explained how there's only like 40 Vietnamese surnames and they made sure they weren't related before getting engaged. I do have to ask how it is you can distinguish between families with the same surname in that regard, is it more-or-less based off of village records?

Meanwhile I knew a Dang in middle school (she's like second-gen if I remember right), and I saw some years back the percentage of Dang surnames is like 3% or something, and I thought that was neat.

 

[NaggotFigger]

Cosign. It is the #1 thing to ever come out of 'Nam. Why is it that the tetchier the owner and more ghetto his shop is, the better the pho?

Though since we got an actual Viet-kiwi here, let me ask, is pho as we Westerners know really considered a regional dish in Vietnam, like we only know one style of it?

By itself, yes. Many westerners consider Phở as a regional dísh in 'Nam, specifically they strive the taste of both Northern-styled and Southern-styled phở. Here in Hồ Chí Minh city and other cities, we sell surprisingly affordable food under the term "bình dân". There are a lot of good restaurants here in HCM, but none matched the authentic style of eating in a boor/ghetto house/outdoor vendor that has plastic stools and tables for customers to eat.

For what you have asked, no. There are again, North and South-styled phở that shared very subtle differences, and even fused both into a hybrid kind of way to enjoy both styles. Rural citizens here pour a lot of passion much like passionate chefs when they want to start a phở shop, normally at an old rundown or average house affordable for poor and working-class citizens/countrymen close to various houses for lease with a good price. Mainly because if the food is full of richness and a lot of ingredients blend well, as well as good price, the shop would get bustling really quickly, the tetchier the owner because of how busy they are and they tend to serve it fresh from cooking and hot quickly to serve waiting customers. Technically many districts have good food are usually in the alleys where ghetto houses are here and there. They prioritze passion, quality food, richness instead of quantity. Vietnam has wide arrays of cuisine that is not phở alone. Even there are my people recommended me ghetto houses that serve good fucking authentic shit every single time, and Vietnamese people prefers eating cheap instead of going to restaurants.