Footbridge to Vietnam

#2 (The Vietnamese Language) - Is Learning Vietnamese Difficult?

Episode Notes

“Tiếng Việt khó quá! (Vietnamese is tough!)” Or is it? If you’re learning, or thinking about learning Vietnamese, then this episode will give you a look at what makes this language difficult (and not so difficult). 

Language difficulty is an slightly tricky topic, as it's difficult to measure and the answer differs depending on your mother-tongue. So in this episode, we look at:

1. Language difficulty - how do we measure it, and what does it say about Vietnamese?
2. What makes Vietnamese difficult/easy?

For the language nerds (like me) we dig into some of the phonological and grammatical aspects of the language, but there are some cultural and other linguistic points about the language - which is what makes the question so interesting! Tune in for the full story.

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