Hey I just started to learn Vietnamese. I'm using the Rosetta Stone program. The problem is that I don't understand everything fully. I can get the just of the sentences but it is not enough because I want to know every word. It's quick and really easy and would help me out a great deal. Here's an example of the stuff that needs to be translated:

Em gái đang cầm một cái gì ở trong tay phải của em ấy.

Em gái đang cầm một cái gì ở trong tay trái của em ấy.

Một người đàn bà đang chỉ chỏ. Bà ấy đang chỉ bắng tay phải.

Một ngướ đàn bà đang chỉ chỏ. Bà ấy đang chỉ bắng tay trái.

Cấm rẽ trài

Cấm rẽ phải

Cấm đậu xe

Cấm rẽ hình chữ U

Coi chừng đại thứ

Coi chừng bó

Coi chứng trẻ em

Coi chừng nai



If you can help then PM me. Thanks a lot,
Eric

Em gái= A Girl, here she's the third person
đang= continous progress + cầm= hold => holding
gì = what?
ở trong =inside
tay= hand phải=right => right hand
của=of em=her ấy=particle to emphasize "em"

So -> A girl is holding what in her right hand?



A girl is holding what in her left hand?


Một =A/one
người =person
đàn bà =women
đang (-ing) chỉ chỏ= pointing
Bà = She, acts as a "pronoun"
ấy = emphasize "she" as the third person
đang chỉ = pointing
bắng =using
tay phải= right hand

=>A woman is pointing. She is pointing using her right hand


=> Forbid-Turn-Left


=> Forbid-Park-Car


=> Forbid-Turn-Shape-Letter-U= U-turn forbidden


I never heard of this one using by native vietnamese before in my life, and I don't understand what it means. However Coi chừng means Look out for


I never heard of this one using by native vietnamese before in my life, and I don't understand what it means


Look-out-children
look-out-deer

deleted my $hitty old post because Supernovasp did a better job than me 2


One question, what is your ethnicity,EMR ?

Thanks a lot Supernovasp! Next time I will pm you so we don't fill up these boards.


To Kenji shinoda, I'm white. My girlfriend is Vietnamese and her parents (especially her dad) want her to be with a Vietnamese guy. I'm Canadian. She told her Mom that I was trying to learn Vietnamese and her Mom thinks it's a good idea. We haven't told her that we're dating yet so I'm really trying to get on her good side. Plus it's always a good thing to know more than one language.

My best guess is that they meant "coi chu*`ng bo^'" for "watch out dad"

Coi chừng nai = watch this

or in a polite manner " watch this for me"

Coi chừng bó= watch out for your father.

meaning; look after your father-- take care of your father.



您越南語是慢的。 2



Thats because you came from a bastardly family 2

"Bó" doesn't make any sense at all. If you are talking about the word "father" in Vietnamese, it's "bố" not "bó".

probally typos
and i see lots of it

Here's the pictures. I'm pretty sure "bó" is bull. The other one looks like a kangaroo.





Coi chừng bó





Coi chừng đại thứ

watch out for cow
more like; yield for cow 2

and watch out for kangaroo

EMR I think you should go to a vietnamese site and chat to them. i do know a site and their all friendly + they know english too. The thing with this site is that we barely type in vietnamese but other site is full on >< so good luck.

[quote=EMR,Sep 3 2005, 04:57 PM]
Here's the pictures. I'm pretty sure "bó" is bull. The other one looks like a kangaroo.





Coi chừng bó<== wrong!the mean of cow in vietnamese is bo`not bo'





Coi chừng đại thứ <== kangaroo in vietanmese is chuo^.t tu'i not đại thứ

Em gái đang cầm một cái gì ở trong tay phải của em ấy.
A girl is holding something in her right hand
Em gái đang cầm một cái gì ở trong tay trái của em ấy.
A girl is holding something in her left hand


Cấm rẽ trài
Cấm rẽ tra'i not Cấm rẽ trài and This mean is " no turn left"
Cấm rẽ phải
no turn right
Cấm đậu xe
no parking any time
Cấm rẽ hình chữ U
no U turn