Differences Between Vietnamese And Chinese Culture

Even though Seiyap is a sub-dialect of Saamyap, people who speak the standard have a hard time understanding the harsher, village dialect of Taishanese. This is due to the difference in tones and the changing of certain consonants either before or after words. In order to more carefully evaluate the differences between the two dialects, I asked native speakers of each to give me sample readings of the same passages. I recorded their voices in hopes of identifying the major differences in word usage and pronunciation.

Growing up, I used to make fun of my father’s accent and I wondered why he couldn’t speak as well as my mother. But I came to understand they came from

A sound foreign to others but native to her. The difference between what is understood and what is not. Was it the accent? Or maybe it was inability to complete a sentence or two? Assimilation into a high standard culture, such as America’s, and learning to speak their native language is a difficult and demanding task. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan expresses the limitations caused by the use of imperfect English in society and her struggles to revitalize it into her life and her writing. Through the use of several rhetorical strategies such as expanding on her own credibility with the use of ethos, appealing to the audience’s emotions using pathos, stating statistics using logos and providing an example of repetition, Tan successfully manages to prove her point on the struggle of accepting and appreciating the language differences in her life.

For this paper I will examine Vietnamese culture according to the five essential questions all cultures must answer (according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck). I will then take those answers and compare then to out culture here in America. I realize that some might argue that using North American culture as a starting point is an attempt to simplify this writing, but I believe that any initial examination of something new is most effectively done in comparison to what one already knows.

America and Vietnam are two opposite countries with many differences. These countries are on completely different continents so of course they both will be completely different from each other. Their differences are what shows how America is a better country to live in. But on the other hand, Vietnam may not be a good country to live it, it is a lovely place to visit on a vacation. There are several similarities and differences between both America and Vietnam to show why America is the better place to live in.

It seems unusual to start from scratch with such a thing. With there being several types of accents, why must one feel like they should change theirs? As Text B illustrates, it seems as though it is celebrities in particular that are changing their accents to fit in with ‘showbiz’ and the latest trends or for a movie they will play a part in. Within seconds of meeting someone, we make judgements about who they are just by the way they sound. Attitudes towards accents are based more on social connotations and prejudices surrounding the location or social group associated with that accent than on the sound itself.

In our life, not all people speak the English language speak it the same way. A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent English language. "Mother Tongue," is the article based on the power of language; In her essay Mother Tongue, Amy Tan wrote some anecdotes of her mother and the influence of her mother's limited English on her early development, expressing her understanding of mother tongue. The evidence suggests that there are three messages conveyed in this essay, which is that mother tongue helped her understand her mother step by step, find her culture root and then achieve a balance between American culture and Chinese culture, and shape her thinking system.

One of the main factors that affects our understanding of the language is one’s regional accent. Although most words and phrases will be comprehensible some phonetics may have changed so much that all we can do is hope that the context of what has been said makes sense in order for us to ‘fill in the gaps’.

Amy Tan, a Chinese woman who throughout her youth lived with her mother, is speaking at an assembly of her peers. After this assembly, she is informed of the changes in her dialect that were present during her speech when her mother arrived. This information gave Tan incentive to check up on her own speech patterns in her home and at the workplace, accordingly. While Tan is walking with her mother, she notices the differences in her formal and comfortable Englishes distinctly. In her and her mother’s conversation, Tan discovers that the way she speaks around her mother is different from the way she would converse with a colleague. In a professional setting, Tan would carefully construct her sentences in saying things similar to: “The intersection

People living in America have different types of accents and dialects due to the groups of people who immigrated here from europe and inhabited in different regions of America. Also, other foreigners who moved from other different parts of the word and settled. The non native english speakers accent in affiliation with the native english speakers gave to the present number of dialects and accents. Today Americans speak a with a wide variety of accents and dialects because of the blending of the native dialect with the foreigners.

Introduction: People with different culture seems so. They have similar health issues. The health system need to make health care affordable. So these groups that is lack of insurance get some or can afford health insurance.

There are about 195 countries worldwide, yet if one were to be questioned about any one specific culture, they would not be able to answer. As already known, the United States is a country of immigrants. It could be described as “a ‘melting pot’ in which different cultures have contributed their own distinct ‘flavors’ to American culture” (Zimmermann, 2017). One of the most distinct cultures that have entered America would have to be the Chinese culture. China is a unique country in itself yet with so much to learn, it is safe to say that the average person would not know a small fraction of what makes up the Chinese culture. China, as every other country, is unique due to its tourism, customs, family life, and its government.

The article “A person’s Accent Can Change Your Perception of What He Is Saying” by Alice Robb was very interesting. The title of the article says it all. I agree with the author statement in the article “listening to a voice with a foreign accent can prime people to see a situation according to the values of foreign culture. The Chinese-English speakers voices seemed low, soft, scared, and did not stand out as independent, therefore when I looked at the picture of the fishes it made me think the group of fishes were chasing the single fish that was swimming ahead. Once I listened to the American-English speakers the voice sounded more at a higher pinch, strong clear, and independent, which made me looked at the picture differently than when

Let’s talk about my English accent first. I came to the United States when I was in high school. I considered my English, especially my spoken English, was close to native speakers among the other international students, like Mexican students and European students, because I could recognize their nationalities by hearing them spitted out the first word.

This year is my forth year that I has been studying in the United State. I’m already used to the U.S. culture and the U.S. living style. So in general, I didn’t experience any culture shock after I got here. If I had any culture shock, it’s probably three years ago. I couldn’t remember any of them. However I do have some thoughts about the differences between the U.S. and China after four years of studying in the United States.