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I can listen to Vietnamese, but I can't speak it
At home, my parents mostly speak their native tongue to me, but I respond in English. My good friend Riest's favorite comment on this was that we were planning to take over the world and he would never know it. Either that, or we plotted to poison him. Unfortunately, I never really developed my Vietnamese abilities because I only had American friends growing up. There are relatively few Vietnamese families in Ft. Smith.
However, I can understand about 90 percent of normal, everyday Vietnamese conversation. I'm a little lost on any kind of idioms, jokes, or references. So, how did I reinforce my understanding of Vietnamese? I watched many Chinese kung fu movies dubbed in Vietnamese when I was a kid. They're classics, like Journey to the West. My favorite is Jin Yong's trilogy of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre. Hmmm, sounds like a blog for the future.
I can read a little, but it's painfully slow. As for my writing abilities, they're terrible. I remember my mom trying to teach me some when I was a kid, but she was too busy to make sure I learned it all.
Going to the conference awakened something inside of me. It's like...I know I need to hold onto my culture. And the foundation of any culture is its language. So I need to work hard to improve my Vietnamese. Sigh, I first need to overcome my laziness.
However, I can understand about 90 percent of normal, everyday Vietnamese conversation. I'm a little lost on any kind of idioms, jokes, or references. So, how did I reinforce my understanding of Vietnamese? I watched many Chinese kung fu movies dubbed in Vietnamese when I was a kid. They're classics, like Journey to the West. My favorite is Jin Yong's trilogy of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre. Hmmm, sounds like a blog for the future.
I can read a little, but it's painfully slow. As for my writing abilities, they're terrible. I remember my mom trying to teach me some when I was a kid, but she was too busy to make sure I learned it all.
Going to the conference awakened something inside of me. It's like...I know I need to hold onto my culture. And the foundation of any culture is its language. So I need to work hard to improve my Vietnamese. Sigh, I first need to overcome my laziness.
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Journey to the West
Like all my favorite animes are based off that story.
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I've also watched Dragonball, DBZ, & DB:GT. They're sorta based loosely, so they count I guess.
Heh, you also live close to where I live. That's cool.