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donuts4evry1 · 2 years ago

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Not to point out other Vietnamese words that people tend to mispronounce, but I often hear “Banh Mi” (Pronounced something like “Bahn Me”) pronounced “bon me”

I know people are trying their best because Viet is a terrible, terrible language but it does always surprise me a little bit lol

#Vietnamese tends to be a lot more consistent when it comes to pronunciation #the vietnamese normal 'a' sounds like the a in ''action'' rather than the a in ''father''#then of course we have the dialects but we won't talk about those #im not a big fan of a lot of viet words but banh mi is actually one of the good ones #with the accents it's spelled bánh mì which means you say the 'a' with a rising tone and the 'i' with a falling tone #so it goes up and down :)#it's also another reason why the squiggly line accent (~) is my favourite accent #you say the vowel with a falling tone and then a rising tone in quick succession #it's a little embarrassing for me to be rambling about vietnamese when i can barely speak the language but the things I do know about it ar-#-e pretty cool #i'm working up to a sort of... syncretic form of vietnamese #talking in both English and Viet in the same sentence #my mom says I speak very well but it's not enough 😭😭#i want to at least get to a point where I can read articles in vietnamese #that being #vietnamese jellyfish wikipedia articles #like YEAH i could just use google translate but Viet is just one of those languages that never works with google translate #it's ... mehhh for nouns but god forbid you try to translate a sentence. or a paragraph #lol #mun rambles

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