Lesson #10 - Apologies

August 10th, 2007

Learn Vietnamese travel phrases with SurvivalPhrases.com! A little Vietnamese can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, survivalphrases.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we cover a high frequency Vietnamese phrase sure to be of use on your trip, travels or vacation to Vietnam.

As you are traveling in a foreign land, things may not go as planned and you may want to ask forgiveness or apologize for something that resulted in an unfavorable outcome. For this reason and many more, today we’re looking at apologizing in Vietnamese. Be sure to stop by SurvivalPhrases.com and leave us a post!

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3 responses to “Apologies”

12 08 2007

Sindy (13:16:26) :

Hi Mien!

Thank you for today’s lesson and keep up Vietnamese languages lessons coming please, you do a great job and I enjoy Vietnamese very much.

Well I like all Asian countries, people and their languages so I’m going to learn the four of them offer here for now at Survival Phrases. S_R_C

28 10 2007

Erica (12:05:04) :

vietnamese is soo hard to learn. but im tryin, thanks to you! keep it coming plz

22 02 2009

Brian (16:30:16) :

How common is apologizing in Vietnam culture?
I know from spending over a year now between Laos and Thailand (and some time in Cambodia) that even though it is common to learn how to say “sorry” it is actually not very commonly used.
In contrast to American or European or even Japanese culture where saying “sorry” or an equivalent “excuse me” can happen dozens of times a day, in Lao or Thai culture you really only say “Sorry” for a truly significant reason, it would be surprising to say it multiple times in one day or even once in many cases.

How is Vietnamese culture regarding this?

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