Thread:WhisperShade/@comment-44044902-20191212134502/@comment-38207171-20191218191547

It's not that hard, but it's very complicated. It's an entirely tonal language and even though English has a similar alphabet, we have different accents as well. More regional accents come from either North (Bác), South (Nam) or Middle (Miền Trung.) and those mainly have to do with pronunciation and interpretation of accent marks. Our alphabets have more vowels than the English alphabet (a, â, ă ), which can have their alphabet accent mark and an additional tone mark as well. Like this: normal vowel (â) and with another accent mark can be used in a phrase like this (anh ấy) meaning "him", or "that man".