Thread: How I Learn a Foreign Language

Originally Posted by Borey the Bald

Originally Posted by Koojo

German and English are somewhat close though.
Vietnamese and English are not.

I make no excuses for my incompetence.....other than being an American.

My point was it's a LOT more difficult to pick up a language so dissimilar to ones first as it is one based in a similar tradition.
Some of the sounds in the Vietnamese language you would be hard pressed to write in the roman alphabet.