| A, Ă, E, Ê... It's so confusing, right? |
| But don't worry, today I'm gonna show you how to pronounce Vietnamese vowels properly. |
| Hello, my name is Linh and welcome back to VietnamesePod101.com, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Vietnamese. |
| Now let's get started. |
| In general, the normal tone in Vietnamese is a little bit higher than the general tone in English. |
| So instead of saying like A, B, C in Vietnamese, usually we pronounce like A, B, C. |
| Now let's take a look and see how we pronounce them. |
| Number one I like to introduce is the letter A. So in Vietnamese we have three A's. |
| You pronounce A, A, Ă, Ă, , okay? A, Ă. |
| So I think that you can see in general the way to pronounce the vowels correctly is about the shape of your mouth. |
| So you actually don't have to use the movement of your lips and your tongue, but it's just the movement of the shape of your mouth. |
| Like that. |
| Now let's take a look at some examples. Xa, Xa, Ma, M, Ba, Ba |
| Now how about letter Ă? Ăn, Ăn. |
| In Vietnamese we don't spell the letters separately, but instead we spell them together. |
| For example, Ă- n- Ăn. Ă- n- Ăn, okay? |
| So we don't say it like A, N, but we pronounce Ă- n- Ăn. |
| Măng, Măng. |
| Ă-ng-ăng, m-ăng-măng. |
| MĂNG. Xăng, Xăng, Xăng. |
| Vâng, vâng, vâng. Nâng, nâng, nâng. |
| Good. Now, let's see what happens with the letter E. |
| So, in Vietnamese, we pronounce E,E,E and the second letter E is Ê, Ê, Ê okay? |
| Now, let's take a look at the examples: Xe, xe, xe. |
| Xe is transportation in general. Next one, Mẹ, mẹ, mẹ is mom, right? |
| But this one has the dấu nặng, the strong tone, so it has to be down and it's had to be stronger a little bit. |
| Em, em, em |
| Okay, next one is Ê, Bê, Bê, Bê. |
| Bê is letter B, that's how we pronounce B in Vietnamese: Bê. |
| Ghế, Ghế, Ghế is the chair. |
| Nghề, Nghề, Nghê, Nghề is a job. |
| Okay, next one is I, Y. Example, mì, mì, đi, đi, |
| đi thi, đi thi, |
| quý vị, quý vị means like ladies and gentlemen, so you guys can say kính thưa quý vị và các bạn. |
| Kính thưa quý vị và các bạn. |
| The letter O in Vietnamese, we have three ones. |
| O, Ô, Ơ. O, O, O, To, to, to. |
| Next one: Lo, lo, lo. |
| okay, the next O is Ô, Ô, for example ô tô, ô tô, ô tô. |
| Ơ, ơ, ơ, for example mơ, mơ, mơ. |
| Another one is thơ, thơ, thơ. U,u, u mùa thu, mùa thu, mùa thu. |
| vũ trụ, vũ rẹu, vũ trụ. |
| The second U letter is Ư, Ư, Ư. |
| Alright, in example hư, hư, the letter thư,thư. |
| How does it feel? Is it confusing or too difficult? |
| But I hope that you have an overview about Vietnamese vowels today and I think that we're gonna see each other soon in the video which talks about Vietnamese consonants. |
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