Tag: The Chinese and Vietnamese Languages
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Can Vietnamese Speak Chinese?
China controlled Vietnam for over 1,000 years. Walking around many parts of Vietnam, particularly in north Vietnam, you can find many Chinese written characters on old buildings. Chinese and Vietnamese are not the same languages. A Vietnamese person cannot automatically understand Chinese, and a Chinese person can not understand Vietnamese. Even though the languages have…
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How Similar Are The Chinese And Vietnamese Languages?
I have studied both Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese, so I know how similar both languages are; even though they are very different, they have similar characteristics. Vietnamese and Chinese are Asian languages, though they come from different language families. Vietnamese and Chinese are both tonal languages and have similar sentence structures. They are monosyllabic languages,…