2007-01-09 14:14:09 · 13 answers · asked by P Diddy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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2007-01-09 14:26:07 · answer #1 · answered by BryanB 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a huge question! I have studied for years about this question. And linguists don't know the full answer yet.
Every person who learns a new language after a certain age has trouble learning the language, and most people never get to a point where they sound like native speakers of that language. So it's not just Vietnamese people who have trouble learning English. In my experience as an ESL teacher, Vietnamese speakers often have accents that English speakers find very difficult to understand. This may cause people to believe that you don't speak English very well when you actually do.
2007-01-09 22:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard Vietnamese? It's very different from English. There are sounds in English that are hard for Vietnamese to make because they didn't learn them when they were growing up. An English speaker would have the same problem with some Vietnamese sounds.
When we are children we learn to make the sounds we hear from the people around us. As we get older, it becomes harder for us to learn new sounds. Most adults never get the hang on pronouncing correctly sounds they didn't grow up with.
2007-01-10 07:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most Asian countries, foreign languages are often taught more on the side of grammar and writing. In addition, Asian are introvert and this trait proves a huge obstacles to learning conversational skills. Consequently people there tend to write a lot better than they speak. You will find out a lof of them write much better native English speakers. By the way, Bryan B. and Reno are so childish with their stupid racist slurs.
2007-01-10 00:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, everyone has their own accent right? So I guess that they still have a heavy Vietnamese accent so that's why it makes it hard for them to speak and pronounce English.
2007-01-10 19:02:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I guess we would have trouble speeking Vietnamese as well. Plus they would pronounce their alphabet different so they would be learning everything they have ever known all over again in a different language.
2007-01-09 22:49:51 · answer #6 · answered by Cindy A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because those who went to school, never had the chance to learn to read/write English. In most of Asia, English has never been a compulsory subject taught in schools - only Singapore, due to our colonial background, most people speak fluent English
2007-01-09 22:22:45 · answer #7 · answered by PikC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do notice that, but as long as our English grammar is still better than many Americans, that's fine.
2007-01-10 00:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by FAUUFDDaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
second languages are always hard. Adults really struggle. Some have trouble spelling too.
2007-01-09 22:22:23 · answer #9 · answered by coka-ko-lah 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, how well do you speak Vietnamese?
2007-01-09 22:21:46 · answer #10 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
because when you are young and learning to speak you learn sounds that you hear.....if you don't hear them you can't say them properly...
2007-01-09 22:22:13 · answer #11 · answered by Tetsi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋