... in response to Lori: about vietnamese language, posted by dd on Aug 24, 2001hi dd,
I also bought the learning tapes. Actually I did'nt learn a thing. I only became very frustrated. i usually pick up languages pretty easy. I know a bit of tagalog, laos,spanish. But I have learned these by spending time with the people who actually speak the language. Don't ask me to spell anything, I can only speak it. I have a hard enough time with the english language.
I am lucky that Thai is an English teacher. Even though we sometimes had a hard time understanding each other. Thank goodness we had a dictionary we could refur to.
I have vowed to learn vietnamese. Thai will teach me when he comes to america. I want to be albe to go back to Vietnam and communicate with his family. Especially his Mother. She used to just smile at me from across the room. One time she had someone translate to me , that there was so much che wanted to say to me, but she could not.
Sometimes the language barrier was a little too much for me to take. Next time, I hope it won't be.