Learn Vietnamese: Ideas 3

Vietnamese Learning Accelerator

This episode exposes you to phrases, repeated in English and Vietnamese, to improve your Vietnamese vocabulary and help you to express yourself in Vietnamese.

These episodes are meant to accompany and accelerate your existing Vietnamese language studies, whether you're using an app like DuoLingo, or you're enrolled in a more formal Vietnamese class. The more you expose your brain to Vietnamese audio, the faster you'll learn.

View the full list of English and Vietnamese phrases in this episode.

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Phrases in this episode:

• The world is changing faster than ever.
• Now is a good time to rethink assumptions about the inability to change the world.
• Before criticizing the world, I make my own bed.
• The world needs enthusiasm.
• Anybody that loves anything is cool.
• Optimists tend to be successful and pessimists tend to be right.
• As people experience fewer problems, we don't become more satisfied, we begin searching for new problems.
• I have many flaws, like anybody, except perhaps a few more.
• I love doing difficult things with other people who want to do difficult things.
• In life we must choose our regrets.
• You can have anything but you can't have everything.
• People who focus on what they want rarely get what they want.
• People who focus on what they have to offer get what they want.
• If you make beautiful choices, you are beautiful.
• You don't truly know what you think until you write it down.
• Only that which is measured can be optimized.
• When a measure becomes an outcome it ceases to be a good measure.
• If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter which path you take.
• Consistency doesn't guarantee you will be successful. But inconsistency will guarantee that you won't be successful.
• Sometimes the demand for answers outstrips the supply.
• Sometimes things happen without anyone involved wanting it to.
• A friend invites you to a wedding, despite not wanting you there, because he thinks you want to attend.
• You attend the wedding, despite not wanting to, because you think he wants you there.
• One sentence that everyone should believe about themselves. I'm enough.
• I love aging and dying.