Tieng Viet lovers club

[lordstriker]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Lidat also can???

People wan to do what they like also cannot?

City bans prep classes for first-grade intensive English test

bro don't u know that Vietnam gov will ban anything if they cannot control it? Like KTV, recently they banned all dancing activities in KTV, only sit down and sing allowed, no dancing ok

[jackbl]

出生男婴太多 越警告性别比例失调

（2009-05-13）

（河内法新电）越南当局昨天向国人发出警告，因为出生的男婴太多，可能造成未来人口的性别比例失调，还提出 越南应该吸取其亚洲邻国的教训。
吁吸取中日韩教训

　　据越南通讯社报道，副总理阮善仁在官方网上研讨会上说，越南目前男女婴儿出生比例是112比100，如 果这种状况继续下去，到2030年，可能会有300万越南男子讨不到老婆。

　　他还说，越南应该吸取中国、日本和韩国性别失衡的严重教训，并呼吁通过大众传媒引起人们对这个问题的重 视。

　　他说：“必须大量报道这类消息和传达关于这个问题的信息。”

　　胡志明市人民委员会副主席阮氏秋霞说，当地每出生113名男婴，相应出生的女婴只有100 个。

　　她还说，许多书籍、报纸和互联网都提供婴儿出生以前选择性别的信息，这违反了政府把胎儿性别差异最小化 的政策。

　　越南通讯社还援引卫生部副部长阮伯瑞的话说，因为有三个子女的家庭越来越多，所以性别不平衡的问题，也 变得越来越明显。

　　报道还说，造成越南人口性别比例失衡的原因包括，推行只准生两个孩子的政策、想要儿子、以及容易进行超 声波扫描（探知婴儿性别）和人工流产等。

Originally Posted by jackbl

baby makers busier than ever

[Oceanlee]

UPz this thread ... and clock 1 more post.

Sometime eat too much "Tiong Kok Cai" also must take some spicy foods.

Sao Nui Nui .... or

Cheers
A Novice for Viet

[jackbl]

I dont think vietnamese food is spicy but it is more towards salty... i still cant get used to their food

Originally Posted by Oceanlee

Sometime eat too much "Tiong Kok Cai" also must take some spicy foods.

Sao Nui Nui .... or

Cheers
A Novice for Viet

[jackbl]

Heard from someone commenting that this thread does not serve its purpose of "teaching"/learning vietnamese language... I dun know where to start from. Maybe from some sentence I came about Can Tho city:

Cần Thơ gạo trắng nước trong,
Ai đi đến đó lòng không muốn về.

Cần Thơ with white rice and clear water,
All who comes would never wish to leave

[jackbl]

Lesson 1 "In My Room"
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Đây là phòng của tôi (This is my room).

Trong phòng có nhiều đồ đạc (In this room, there are a lot of things).

Đây là bàn và ghế (These are tables and chairs).

Trên bàn có một cái máy vi tính, một vài đĩa CD, một vài quyển sách, một cuốn từ điển Anh - Việt và rất nhiều bút (On the table there are a computer, some CDs, some books, a dictionary and a lot of pens).

Đây là giường của tôi (This is my bed).

Trên giường có gối, chăn và một cái điều khiển ti vi (On the bed, there are pillows, blankets, and a TV remote control).

Kia là tủ quần áo của tôi (That is my wardrobe).

Tôi có nhiều quần jean và áo thun (I have a lot of jeans and pullovers). Tôi không có nhiều áo sơ mi (I don't have many shirts).

Dưới tủ là giày và dép (Under the wardrobe there are shoes and slippers).

Đây là điện thoại di động của tôi (This is my mobile phone).

Điện thoại này rất mới và đẹp (This mobile phone is new and beautiful). Kia là lò sưởi điện (Over there is electronic heater).

Trên tường phòng tôi có một cái máy lạnh và cái quạt máy và một tấm gương (On the wall of my room, there are a air-conditioner, an electronic fan and a mirror).

Phòng tôi có một cái ti vi nhỏ và một đầu đĩa DVD (I have a small TV and a DVD player).

Đây là cái tủ lạnh của tôi (This is my refrigator).

Trong tủ lạnh có nhiều trái cây, nước ngọt và bia (In the refrigator, there are a lot of fruits, soft drinks and beers).

Trên tủ lạnh có nhiều ly cốc (On the top of the refrigator, there are many cups and glasses).

Phòng của tôi nhỏ, nhưng tôi rất thích nó (My room is small, but I like it).

[jackbl]

More women give birth to third child
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The number of women in Vietnam delivering a third child continues to rise, reaching 27,453 in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 1 percent.

Dr Vu Te Dang with newborns at Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. The number of women having a third child continues to rise in Vietnam, worrying policymakers.
The number is expected to rise to 60,368 in the first half, also 1 percent higher than a year earlier.

At an online conference on May 11 between Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, and top officials from the Ministry of Health, General Office for Population Family Planning (GOPFP) and all 63 provinces and cities, Deputy Minister of Health and GOPFP head Nguyen Ba Thuy, said the increasing third-child rate is worrying since the 2008 rate was already the highest in recent years.

The rate might rise sharply this year, he feared.

Mr. Thuy also warned of a critical gender imbalance, saying the sex ratio was 112 last year and is likely to rise further.

Participants also discussed population management in provinces and cities, which they admitted remains poor.

Deputy PM Nhan instructed provincial and municipal people’s committees to improve dissemination of information to heighten public awareness of population and birth control.

He told them to provide districts with computers to serve population and birth-control activities.

Mr. Nhan asked the health, internal affairs, and finance sectors to work together on drafting regulations for population workers and review the budget allocated for population programs.

A project to monitor the population in 28 coastal provinces has to be reviewed and instructions for implementing it issued, he said.

Population officials have to be trained further, he added.

He called on the Ministry of Health to develop a strategic program for population and reproductive health for the 2011-20 period.

By Trung Kien – Translated by Hoang Yen

[jackbl]

Lesson 2 "Go to School"
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Anh Nam là sinh viên (Nam is a student).

Anh ấy học tiếng Hàn ở trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ Hà Nội (He studies Korean language at the Hanoi University of Foreign Languages).

Sáng nay, anh Nam thức dậy lúc 6 giờ (This morning, Nam waked up at 6 a.m).

Anh ấy ăn sáng lúc 6 giờ 30 phút (He had breakfast at 6:30).

Anh ấy đến trường lúc 7 giờ (At 7, he arrived school).

Buổi sáng, anh Nam học Hội thoại tiếng Hàn (In the morning, Nam studied Korean conversation).

Anh ấy học với một giáo sư người Hàn từ 7 giờ đến 10 giờ (He studies with a Korean professor from 7:00 to 10:00).

Lúc 10 giờ rưỡi, anh Nam đi gặp bạn (At 10 and a half, Nam went to see his friend).

Bạn anh ấy cũng là sinh viên ở trường đại học (His friend is also a student at the university).

Buổi trưa, anh ấy và bạn ăn trưa ở căn tin trong trường Đại học (At noon, his friend and him had their lunch at the university's canteen).

Buổi chiều, anh Nam học từ 1 giờ rưỡi đến 4 giờ (In the afternoon, Nam studied from 1:30 to 4:00).

Sau đó, anh Nam đi uống cà phê với bạn. (After that, Nam went to drink coffee with his friends).

Buổi tối anh Nam học tiếng Anh ở một trung tâm ngoại ngữ (In the evening, Nam studied English at a foreign language center).

[jackbl]

Lesson 3 "Go Vietnam"
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Anh Lee đã đi Việt Nam hai lần, một lần để du lịch, một lần để học tiếng Việt (Mr. Lee went to Vietnam for two times: the first time for traveling, the second one for studying Vietnamese).

Anh Lee đi Việt Nam lần đầu tiên vào năm 2003 (In 2003, he had gone to Vietnam for the first time).

Anh ấy đã đi du lịch ở các thành phố lớn của Việt Nam: Hà Nội, TP. Hồ Chí Minh, Nha Trang, Đà Lạt (He traveled in the big cities of Vietnam: Hanoi, HoChiMinh City, Nha Trang, Da Lat).

Anh Lee đi Việt Nam lần thứ hai cách đây 6 tháng (Mr. Lee went to Vietnam for the second time 6 months ago).

Lần này, anh Lee đã đi TP. Hồ Chí Minh để học tiếng Việt (For this time, Lee went to HoChiMinh City to learn Vietnamese).

Ở đó, anh Lee đã gặp nhiều giáo viên và sinh viên Việt Nam (There, Lee had met many Vietnamese teachers and students).

Anh Lee thích nói tiếng Việt với sinh viên Việt Nam (Mr. Lee likes to speak Vietnamese with Vietnamese students). Ở TP Hồ Chí Minh có nhiều người Hàn Quốc (In HCMC, there are many Koreans).

Họ làm việc ở công ty Hàn Quốc (They work in Korean companies). Ở trường đại học, anh Lee cũng gặp nhiều sinh viên Hàn Quốc (At the university, Lee also meets Korean students).

Anh Lee rất thích TP. Hồ Chí Minh và rất thích tiếng Việt (Mr. Lee likes HCMC and Vietnamese language so much).

Anh Lee có nhiều bạn Việt Nam (He has many Vietnamese friends).

Họ không biết tiếng Hàn, vì vậy, anh Lee nói tiếng Việt với họ (They don't speak Korean language, so Lee speaks in Vietnamese with them).

Bây giờ, anh Lee đã trở về Hàn Quốc, nhưng anh Lee muốn năm sau trở lại Việt Nam (Now, Lee has gone back to South Korea, but Lee wants to come back to Vietnam next year).

[jackbl]

Hi people, i need feedback whether these lesson is useful. As you can see that, these lessones do not teach you pronunciation. Therefore u need to go on course or get a "teacher".

As these lessones are listed out in sentences, you need to go into VDICT to find out what each word means.

Originally Posted by jackbl

Lesson 3 "Go Vietnam"
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[jackbl]

Southeast asia citizens are not consider international tourists.... so they dun need apply visa

Oversea tourists exempt from visa fees
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International visitors traveling to Vietnam under the “Impressive Vietnam” promotion program will be exempt from visa fees.


Passport holders from every country in the world who book a tour which is included in the program from May 15 to September 30 will be eligible for the fee exemption, according to a document issued by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism on May 14.

Tourists can now be issued visas at border gates or at Vietnam’s representative agencies overseas and will receive a free-of-charge stamp, said the document.

Those who arrive after September 30 or who want to stay in Vietnam, longer than their visa allows, will not be eligible for the fee exemption.

Information related to these tours is available at Impressive Vietnam!.

Source: VNA

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by zhu star

Hi bro:

I have replied to your msg. Dont know if you have receviced it. Do let me know.

Cheers

Hi Bro Zhustar. I had reply u liao

[jackbl]

Chinese dim sum with a Vietnamese twist
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Mon Ngon Viet Nam
Ha cao, a thin skin containing various stuffings, has won the hearts of millions of Vietnamese, especially students Photo Courtesy of Mon Ngon Viet Nam Magazine

Vietnam has borrowed the famous Chinese dim sum cuisine and turned it into a cheap and cheerful roadside snack.

Dim sum, which literally means “touch the heart”, refers to a wide variety of Chinese dishes, usually snack-sized dumplings stuffed with meat, seafood and herbs or desserts in thin wheat flour skins.

The cuisine was first served as breakfast at tea houses in Guangzhou Province in China.

Originally consisting of only few dishes, dim sum has grown in both variety and popularity.

As well as ground meat, seafood, mushroom and herbs, other more unconventional stuffings, such as caviar and jam, are now added to dim sum to give it a more international taste. Some restaurants in China offer more than 100 different types of dim sum every day.

At Chinese dim sum restaurants, the dishes are usually served in small portions in miniature steamer baskets or on small plates. The items can be ordered from a menu or from trolleys wheeled around by servers.

But in Vietnam, most people are unaware the small fried dumplings and stuffed buns they order from roadside vendors are dim sum.

The buns and dumplings are known by Vietnamese names, such as ha cao and sui cao. The Vietnamese versions of dim sum are mostly inexpensive treats for students and young couples. Vietnamese aficionados usually go to family restaurants or roadside stalls for dim sum.

Most well-known dim sum in Vietnam are ha cao, a thin wheat pastry stuffed with either meat or seafood, and sui cao, with similar stuffings but a different type of pastry, often eaten in noodle soup.

In Ho Chi Minh City, people love the simple Chinese-origin snacks that are available at luxury restaurants and street stalls.

A small area in HCMC’s District 3, bounded by Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Cao Thang, Dien Bien Phu and Nguyen Thien Thuat streets, is the go-to area for ha cao.

The inexpensive ha cao sold on the streets don’t have as thin a pastry as those served at high-end restaurants. Instead, the skin is soft and chewy and delicious enough for people to come back for more.

A plate of ha cao usually consists of five to six bite-sized pieces garnished with herbs and fried slices of onion. A small bowl of sauce, usually the cook’s own secret recipe, adds a little sweet, sour and spiciness to the dish.

Ha cao can be served fried or steamed, according to the customers’ tastes.

Sui cao, a loosely-wrapped wonton that contains a whole shrimp in the stuffing, is mostly found at Chinese noodle soup restaurants and noodle stalls.

Chinese noodle stalls are distinctive with their black trolleys decorated with colored glass. Most stalls sell both sui cao and the more traditional Chinese won ton, which are both made from the same kind of wrapper.

Sui cao is said to taste best in extremely hot soup. It can be eaten with clear soup, with noodle soup or with noodle soup and various cuts of meat and seafood.

The fried version of sui cao can be served with noodle soup or a special type of sweet and sour sauce.

The noodle soup restaurants along Ha Ton Quyen Street in HCMC’s China Town in District 5, known as the home of top-grade sui cao, are always crowded with food lovers.

A wide variety of Vietnamese-styled Chinese dishes are served every day in restaurants and homes in Vietnam. Dim sum, in the form of ha cao or sui cao, remains a simple treat that has won a place in the hearts of millions of Vietnamese people.

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Cheongster learn Vietnamese while clubbing
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He also revealed that he recorded every conversation with the viet gals and listened to them again to practice speaking.

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This was supposed to be my secret weapon. Now it is no more.

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Cheongster learn Vietnamese while clubbing
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“The cheongsters’ eagerness in studying foreign languages has persuaded me to recruit even people speak no Vietnamese language” said SBF V,killer, LDG chairman, adding that they have made an obvious improvement through their courting skills.

Reported by SBF KangTuo

Originally Posted by v.killers

Troi oi, since when this LDG Group exist??? LDG CHAIRMAN

And you still highlighted it in red? Scared other people dont know ha?