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Hello! Since I love languages, this page will contain anything and all things linguistic.
Mission: to become trilingual on this trip to Vietnam (According to my friend Anita, if you make grandiose declarations, they become easier to realize and may actually happen. And funny enough, that’s why I ended up going on this trip: she made the statement; I followed through and here I am 
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Feb 10/07 Hmmm, so how’s this mission going? It is HARD to learn a language that you have been exposed to as a kid cuz as an adult, we just learn differently. And in VNese, there’s so many vowels and I can hardly hear the difference between the 3 A’s or 3 O’s. And it’s disheartening to know that you’ve been pronouncing words incorrectly for most of your life. BUT I still like it and will keep plugging away….Very grateful to have a colleague teach me:)
New idea: several actually
As I sat in the Camosun office today, I thought to myself, why couldn’t I become trilingual? In fact, why couldn’t I even teach Vietnamese to foreigners in the future? Could the non-traditional Vietnamese girl rediscover her native language and actually teach others to excel in it as well? Yes! Bien sur! Da, duoc! Can you imagine Cathy’s classroom? It’d be a party in there!
Also, the linguist in me also wants to complete a study on borrowed French words in the Vietnamese language. I know that in the 19th century, French missionaries translated Vietnamese, which used to have Chinese characters, and implemented the use of the Roman alphabet, which makes up modern Vietnamese today. It would be super interesting to find out which words were inserted into the language and why. Go Cathy!
My cousin also told me that Nguyen has the same roots as the Chinese last name, Eng. Does that mean I’m M. Eng’s long-lost sister? hmmmmmmmm… Whoever can find out how to spell my name in Chinese characters wins a prize! BUT actually, I’ve now been corrected and it seems that Nguyen and the Chinese last name Yuen are related. I also know a Mr. Yuen who could be part of my family so that’s ok too
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