Since Rosetta Stone programs cost a few hundred bucks a pop, I've decided to learn Vietnamese on the cheap. Here's the best I've found on youtube as of yet. This guy has many videos up. Apparently he was a translator during the war...
I also bought a Vietnamese dictionary and phrase book today.
Here's what I know so far: This language is going to be very hard to learn.
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Just found your blog. I'm impressed by all the research you're doing before you leave--you sound like some kind of responsible American.
Hearts and Minds is horrifying sometimes, isn't it? Guess you need all the facts before you leave. That last montage (cross-cutting including a burial of a Vietnamese child?) was brutal.
Anyway I'll be watching this closely. Hope all goes well.
In Africa I read of a tribe where the meaning of words varied not only in tonality but in body language as well. A word's meaning for instance changed by the attitude of the head toward the shoulder as uttered. The people of Kau.
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