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In the previous post I mentioned a main word list for students wanting to comprehend English, the General Service List. A sister list to the GSL is the Academic Word List (AWL) which contains a further 570 words which are important to university students and aren’t contained in the GSL. At that Wiktionary link, the words […]
Once you’ve learned how to pronounce Vietnamese and have a handle on the relatively simple-to-learn grammar, learning Vietnamese is mostly a matter of picking up vocabulary. What you’ll learn in books is the the tip of the iceberg, and may even include a lot of words that aren’t so frequently used.
For English, there is the […]
Before the present day Vietnamese writing system, Quoc Ngu, based on the Latin alphabet with diacritic marks for vowels and tones, there was a writing system based on Chinese characters called Chu Nom. Chu Nom, like Japanese kanji, used Chinese characters with localized pronunciation and original meaning. But this was more or less just a […]
Vietnamese and Khmer are the two well-known languages in the Mon-Khmer language group which is most of the Austro-Asiatic language family, the only national languages in the family. Languages in this family are mostly in Southeast Asia but are also found in India and Bangladesh. The map of the haplogroup O2b-M9 may explain why and […]
Curious how speakers in other countries including non-native speakers pronounce English? Check out the Speech Accent Archive.
Sure, it’s natural to make fun of someone’s accent. But what makes someone’s English sound non-native? From a linguists point of view, this site breaks down various speakers accents and makes generalizations about their phonology, how they mispronounce things.
For example, […]
