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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 42 - One Ticket Please in Southern Vietnamese. |
| There are times when access to some must-see places require an admission ticket. So today, we're gonna work on buying tickets. For those of you that have been following the lessons, you’ll be surprised at how much you already know. Today’s phrases contain words we have used in previous lessons. |
| To ask for “One ticket, please” is Xin cho một vé. |
| Xin cho một vé. |
| Let’s break this down by syllable: Xin cho một vé. |
| Once again, Xin cho một vé. |
| The first word, xin, means "please." |
| xin |
| xin |
| This is followed by cho, cho, which means "give." |
| Xin and cho are both the flat tone. |
| xin cho |
| xin cho |
| Let’s take a look at the next word, một. |
| Một means "one" and is the sharp falling tone. |
| một |
| một |
| The last word is vé, which means "ticket." |
| Vé is the rising tone. |
| vé |
| vé |
| So all together we have, Xin cho một vé. Literally this means "One ticket please." |
| What if you need more than one ticket. Before we look at how to ask for more than one ticket, let’s recap the numbers 1 through 5 here. |
| 1: một |
| 2: hai |
| 3: ba |
| 4: bốn |
| 5: năm |
| So to ask for “Two tickets, please,” we say Xin cho hai vé. |
| Xin cho hai vé. |
| As you can see, you simply change the number of tickets you want. Let’s try asking for “Four tickets, please.” Xin cho bốn vé. |
| Xin cho bốn vé. |
| Let’s review asking for the price. To ask for “How much is one ticket?” is Bao nhiêu một vé? |
| Bao nhiêu một vé? |
| To ask, “How much for all of us?” Bao nhiêu tất cả? |
| Bao nhiêu tất cả? |
| Let’s look at another way to buy tickets. “Please give me two tickets for two people” in Vietnamese is Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| We already know that cho means “give” but the second cho we have here means “for” or “to” as in to do something for somebody or give something to somebody. |
| Let’s break it down by syllable: Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
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! |
| “One ticket please.” - Xin cho một vé. |
| Xin cho một vé. |
| Xin cho một vé. |
| “How much is one ticket?” - Bao nhiêu một vé? |
| Bao nhiêu một vé? |
| Bao nhiêu một vé? |
| “How much for all of us?” - Bao nhiêu tất cả? |
| Bao nhiêu tất cả? |
| Bao nhiêu tất cả? |
| “Give me tickets for 2 people.” - Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| Cho tôi vé cho hai người. |
| 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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