Tieng Viet lovers club

[PenguinChaser]

Originally Posted by vietboy

Wats CMND??

CMND :

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by vietboy

Aiyo, those cannot trust one lah. U know u can pay $$ to put whatever info u want into the ID?

If that cant trust, then words of mouth can trust????

U jio one 16yo vb for paid sex lor, then tell hotel operator the gal said she's 18. U see they trust u talk or ID/passport... in the eye of law, everything will depend on ID/passport.

[jackbl]

36 – Price: How much money? – bao nhiêu tiền?
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Also see # 11 – How much? How many? – mấy? bao nhiêu?

Asking the price: How much is this? (What is the price?)

Question:
Subject + bao nhiêu + tiền?
Subject + giá + bao nhiêu + tiền?

Answer:
the price
subject + the price
subject + giá + the price

Túi Louis Vuiton bao nhiêu tiền? Khoảng ba (3) đến năm (5) nghìn đô
Bag Louis Vuiton how much money? Approximately 3 to 5 thousand dollars

Anh thuê nhà một tháng giá bao nhiêu tiền?
You (male) Rent house 1 month price how much money?
How much does it cost you per month to rent a house?

Anh thuê nhà một tháng giá một nghìn đô
I (male) rent house 1 month price 1 thousand dollar
$1000 per month


When asking the specific price for a specific amount of goods: there are 2 ways

(1) put bao nhiêu tiền at the beginning and specify your quantity at the end

Question: Bao nhiêu + tiền + quantity + object?
Answer: Price
Quantity + object + price
Bao nhiêu tiền hai cái này? Hai cái này mười (10) bảy (7) xu
How much money 2 these things ? 2 of these things 17 cents

How much are these 2 things? Two of these things are 17 cents
Bao nhiêu tiền một (1) carat kim cương? Còn tùy
How much money 1 carat diamond? It depends

How much is 1 karat of diamond? It depends

(2) Using: giá + bao nhiêu + tiền at the end

Question: Quantity + subject + giá + bao nhiêu + tiền?

Answer: Price

Quantity + subject + price

Mười cây mai đó giá bao nhiêu tiền?
10 tree quince that price how much money?

Hai triệu ba trăm bốn mươi bảy nghìn
2 million 3 hundred 4 0 7 thousand

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by jackbl

If that cant trust, then words of mouth can trust????

U jio one 16yo vb for paid sex lor, then tell hotel operator the gal said she's 18. U see they trust u talk or ID/passport... in the eye of law, everything will depend on ID/passport.

Da, thay giao jackbl!

[leovirus88]

Wats "na anh" x.x

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by leovirus88

Wats "na anh" x.x

NA = the phrase we say when we point middle finger
Anh = address a elder guy... in this case its you


so "na anh" = fcuk you

[forgotoldnick]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

NA = the phrase we say when we point middle finger

tats the first thing tat came to my mind also....lol

[ilovedoggie]

Originally Posted by forgotoldnick

tats the first thing tat came to my mind also....lol

it would bring different meaning when the vb open up her shirt and show her boobs and say, " na... anh!"

[leovirus88]

Lol I got scolded by my viet gal then zzz

[forgotoldnick]

Originally Posted by leovirus88

Wats "na anh" x.x

Originally Posted by ilovedoggie

it would bring different meaning when the vb open up her shirt and show her boobs and say, " na... anh!"

or even better, spread her legs and say, "na...anh"

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by leovirus88

Lol I got scolded by my viet gal then zzz

not really... i dont know the context so the translation is just what i think so.
it may be what ilovedoggie and forgotoldnick had translated also

[jf66312]

Originally Posted by forgotoldnick

or even better, spread her legs and say, "na...anh"

or could also be she tilt her perky butt to you and say , " na...anh"...

or while doing the deed and when you about to cum , she open her mouth and say , " na....anh"....

[jackbl]

Ho Chi Minh City’s top 100 list not so interesting
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The Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism has recently announced a 20-catefory list featuring 100 interesting facts about Vietnam’s most populous city. However, to many, the list is too long and boring.


The “HCMC – 100 Interesting Facts” list which is the result of a poll launched by the department includes typical landmarks like museums, historical and cultural sites, traditional markets, nightlife and entertainment venues, food, special cultural, sports and tourism events, shopping places, and typical souvenirs...

However, to many people, many “interesting” things that were listed are not so interesting.

Water puppet shows not included

The 100 interesting facts include five typical convention centers and five typical transportation operators, which organizers call an improvement compared with a similar list launched by the department in 2010. The two categories have raised objections from those who say they don’t find transportation means and convention venues interesting.

“Tourists will not care about the places people hold meetings,” said Ton Nu Thi Ninh, former Deputy Head of the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and former Vietnamese Ambassador to the EU.

Huynh Minh Son, CEO of local APEC tourism company told Phap Luat Newspaper that listing transportation operators is not necessary since international tourists coming to Vietnam have their own tour operators who will take care of their travel.

Nguyen Viet Anh, head of a travel management section from the city’s Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism disagreed.

“Tourists coming to the city need taxis to travel while unlicensed cabs in Vietnam are really causing a mess. That’s why we bring typical transportation operators into the list,” he explained.

The list consists of “five typical luxury hotels”, on top of “five luxury hotels for businessmen”. The two categories are roughly the same.

Meanwhile, some opinions expressed that the list lacks cultural values as well as services which tourists really need.

According to Huynh Minh Son, there are many listed places where local tour agencies rarely take their customers to.

“For example, in the category of night entertainment, there’s little likelihood that foreign tourists visiting HCMC would come to cinemas [Megastar cinema chain is in the list]. 90% of Japanese tourists coming here via our company like to watch Vietnamese water puppet shows which were not listed,” he stated.

Ton Nu Thi Ninh also agreed “The poll’s organizers should have listened to people’s opinions and eliminated unnecessary things”.

“I think we should list five typical charity foundations or five typical galleries. Many tourists coming to Vietnam buy paintings as well as do charity,” she added.

100 interesting facts or PR trick?

After two months, the organizers received 35,000 votes from local residents and tourists visiting the city through surveys handed out at malls, entertainment places around the city and via the website www.saigon100dieuthuvi.vn.

However, the fact that local tourism and service enterprises can nominate themselves to the list has raised doubts that the poll was a golden opportunity for PR.

“The list does not impress me… I agree with many people saying the poll is a way for enterprises to polish their reputation”, historian Nguyen Nha told Phap Luat.

According to Nguyen Thi Hong, deputy chairperson of the city People’s Committee, the poll aims to introduce the city’s unique tourism products that bear cultural values to domestic and international tourists, as well as to encourage local tourism enterprises to improve their products.

Too long

Some people wonder how the authorities could promote the list to tourists.

Director of a local travel agency said that 100 is big number and hard for tourists to remember. “I don’t need 100 interesting things, if I were a tourist, I would like to know where to go, what to eat and buy. That’s enough. There’s no need to go for 100,” he added.

In response, the cultural department informed that it will produce brochures, leaflets and video clips about the list’s 100 facts and send them to local travel agencies to hand over to their customers, as well as to foreign consulates in HCMC.

They also plan to make a short film on the ‘100 Interesting Facts’ and show it on Vietnam Airlines flights.

[jackbl]

Smoker’s paradise
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To someone who has never smoked a cigarette in their life, living in Saigon can be a trying experience. Cigarettes are everywhere, and it seems that nearly every Vietnamese male in the city smokes constantly. This is a far cry from back in the US.


To be sure, there are plenty of smokers in America, 46 million of them, according to some estimates. However, even with such a huge number of smokers, you don’t run into clouds of cigarette smoke as often as you do in Saigon. There are several reasons for this.

First, it is considered rude to light up around non-smokers. Many people will ask if those around them mind if they smoke, and they will be sure not to exhale in their direction. The negative health effects of second-hand smoke are common knowledge, so common courtesy dictates that a smoker shouldn’t blow cigarette smoke at people, especially children. That courtesy doesn’t exist here. Xe om drivers blast clouds of smoke at you while waiting at red lights, and patrons at restaurants blow smoke over their shoulder and right into our face in order to avoid blowing it on their own food. Men (and it is always men here) smoke with babies on their laps.

Second, as the potentially deadly side effects of smoking have become better understood, many American cities and states have passed laws governing where people can smoke. Many cities have banned cigarettes from restaurants and basically any indoor area besides certain bars. In some places the only location someone can legally smoke a cigarette is outside. As a non-smoker, I love these laws. Cigarette smoke hurts your eyes, smells terrible, and makes your food less enjoyable. Smoke-free restaurants are fantastic, and few things are more disgusting than eating a meal in Saigon while eight people at the table next to you are chain-smoking. A small handful of restaurants here are smoke-free, but they are few and far between, and mostly expensive downtown eateries. Your standard Vietnamese restaurant often looks like it is on fire thanks to all the cigarette smoke.

Cigarettes are also very expensive in the US thanks to taxes. Progressive cities like New York have tried to deter people from smoking by making it financially ruinous. In NYC a pack of smokes costs over US$10, and a carton costs nearly $100, and other major cities aren’t far behind. From what my friends tell me, in Saigon a pack of cigarettes can cost less than $1. Why would anyone quit smoking when it’s so insanely cheap?

Saigon, then, seems to be a smoker’s paradise. You can do it everywhere, it’s absurdly cheap, and no one will tell you not to do it around them. I can only imagine how many people suffer from lung cancer or other smoking-related diseases here. If something were done to reduce the prevalence of smoking in Saigon it would make this a more pleasant, not to mention healthier, place to live. I don’t see anything of the sort being done anytime soon though, so I guess that dream will go up in smoke.

[jackbl]

Scary images, scary cigarettes
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I’ve been smoking for a long time, therefore I really appreciate foreign cigarette packs which my son usually gives me whenever he returns to Vietnam to pay us a visit.

Last July, my son gave me a cigarette pack he had bought in Taiwan. However, I had to deprive myself from enjoying those Taiwanese cigarettes due to the scary images on its packaging, which featured on one side a woman carrying her child in her right arm while her left arm covered her mouth; the cancerous heart of a smoker was shown on the other side.

My son told me that these images were the least scary ones. It is no wonder that on his trips to Hong Kong and Thailand the scary images printed on packets of cigarette caused him not to buy cigarettes as a present for me.

Yet he bought foreign cigarette manufactured in Vietnam for his friends upon his departure. He reasoned that on these cigarette packs there are only recommendations against smoking printed in Vietnamese, and in a very small size at that, so hardly anybody takes notice of them.

It is obvious that smokers do not use only their mouth to smoke, but also their eyes. Consequently, in many countries around the world, such “impressive” packets of cigarettes seem to be very efficient in demonstrating the damaging effect of smoking, as well as reducing the number of smokers.

Whereas in Vietnam, the recommendations on cigarette packs are no longer effective. Shouldn’t they be replaced by scary images in order to reduce the number of smokers?

At present, tobacco companies in 43 countries are forced to print graphic warning images about the damaging effects of cigarettes on their products. This is considered to be an efficient solution aimed at reducing the number of smokers.

A survey carried out by the World Health Organization showed that the majority of smokers pay attention to these images, and more than 25% of them consider stopping smoking. In another study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US found that about 25 to 50% of smokers said these images are capable of making them stop smoking.