Learn how to check the business hours of a store
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Hello and welcome to Southern Vietnamese Survival Phrases brought to you by VietnamesePod101.com. This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Southern Vietnam. You’ll be surprised at how far a little Vietnamese will go. |
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Lesson focus |
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| Southern Vietnamese Survival Phrases lesson 39 - What Time Does it Close? in Southern Vietnamese. |
| In today’s lesson, we’ll introduce you to a phrase that you will need on several occasions. We all know you want to see the sites in Vietnam and this phrase is essential to plan your day. |
| In Vietnamese "What time does it open?" is Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| Let’s break this down by syllable: Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| You may recall, the first two words, mấy giờ, means "what time." |
| mấy giờ |
| mấy giờ |
| This phrase ends with mở cửa, mở cửa which simply means "open the door." |
| mở cửa |
| Mở cửa are both the falling-rising tone. |
| mở cửa |
| mở cửa |
| So all together, we have Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ nó mở cửa? |
| Literaly, this means "What time does it open?" |
| If the previous phrase was easy for you, then you already got the next one. To ask, “What time does it close?" you say, Mấy giờ nó đóng cửa? |
| Mấy giờ nó đóng cửa? |
| Let’s break this down, Mấy giờ nó đóng cửa? |
| As you can see, we only changed one word from the previous phrase. Instead of saying mở cửa, we say đóng cửa which means "close the door." |
| đóng cửa |
| Đóng is the rising tone. |
| đóng |
| đóng |
| cửa |
| Đóng is the rising tone. |
| So all together, we have - Mấy giờ nó đóng cửa? |
| Mấy giờ nó đóng cửa? |
| Literally this means "What time does it close?" |
| To ask what time a store opens, you can say - Mấy giờ tiệm mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ tiệm mở cửa? |
| tiệm |
| Tiệm is the low tone. |
| tiệm |
| tiệm |
Outro |
| Okay, to close out today’s lesson, we'd like for you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for shouting it out loud. You’ll have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so chúc may mắn, this means “good luck” in Vietnamese. |
| Okay, here we go! |
| “What time does it open?” - Mấy giờ mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ mở cửa? |
| “What time does it close?” - Mấy giờ đóng cửa? |
| Mấy giờ đóng cửa? |
| Mấy giờ đóng cửa? |
| “What time does the store open?” - Mấy giờ tiệm mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ tiệm mở cửa? |
| Mấy giờ tiệm mở cửa? |
| All right, that's going to do it for this lesson. Remember to stop by VietnamesePod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF lesson notes. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. Bye! |
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