Hello! My english name is Traci and I am Vietnamese. I was born and grew up...

[Traci.nguyen]

hello every body, my english name is Traci and i am vietnamese. I was born and grew up in Hochiminh city- 1 of 2 bigest city in vietnam. I had an opportunity to learn English as my Mom sent me to her friend's class when i was 10. But i haven't improved my english since i am not hard studying enough. I am glad to be in this forum so that i can practise more with you all. Hope we can help each other to improve ourselves. Sincerely, Traci.

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[Torsten]

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[Laura Bright]

Hi, Tracy. It's so nice that you have joined us.

When I was a young girl in school at an American school for the Blind, we had many students from other countries, particularly from South Vietnam. A woman named Genevive Caulfield had established a school for blind children in Saigon. Then some American soldiers decided that they would get money together to sponsor some children so that they could come to America and learn some of the skills that they would have not been able to learn in their country.

One of the girls became my roommate. She had an English name too, her name was Anna. But her full name was Anna Nguyen thi Kim Lan. Anna was a beautiful girl, tall and slim. She was a wonderful seamstress and made her dress for the senior prom. We had three other girls, Chan thi Hoa, Theresa le thi Quang and Maria Chen. There was a boy too but I did not know him well. All of the students seemed to be highly motivated to study and learn and they went to college. Anna is in Hawaii but I have lost touch with many of my school chums because I went to a special school, the first school for blind children in this country, and we hosted many students as well as seeing students who were studying to become teachers so that they could teach blind people in their countries. There is still such a need in that area in so many countries and even getting the most basic of supplies, special writing slates and paper for writing Braille, Braille books, and sometimes there are few printed books in the Braille systems in countries which do not employ the Roman alphabet such as Japan, China, Russia, Germany etc.

But when I read your post, Tracy, I thought back to the day I first met Anna. She was about my age or a little older. I was ten and she was eleven or twelve. Like Theresa who came with her, she was an orphan. That first night when we were getting ready for bed, Anna asked me for something. I didn't understand her. She was still having difficulty distinguishing between the sounds for the letter R with sounds for the letter L. What I heard her say was, "Do you have a losaly?" (I am not making fun of Anna! I've been teaching ESL for several years and some of my Chinese and other Oriental students deal with this issue as well.) She asked me three times and we were both getting frustrated. Finally, I remembered that the school she had attended in South Vietnam was a Catholic school. Suddenly everything fell into place. Although I was not a Catholic, I had been given two rosaries, one by an aunt who is Catholic and one by a beloved teacher, also a Catholic.

"Oh!, you want a Rosary!" I moved quickly to my bottom drawer and gave her one of the rosaries. She wanted me to say the rosary with her. Since I knew it in English and she wanted to practice her English by doing it that way, we went through it and as long as we were roommates, we closed our day with the saying of the rosary.
Later, in college, I had a wonderful Vietnamese friend who introduced me to the joys of Vietnamese food. I am always interested in other countries and what they are like. We all have some things in common and then there is all that makes a person unique. I hope you will continue to post messages here. Everyone is very thoughtful and helpful. I think Alan writes the most wonderfully humorous stuff! I don't know how I'd make it in life without a sense of humor.

I must get back to work but I just wanted to let you know that I am glad to meet you and look forward to hearing from you soon.

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[Shammy_Nguyen]

hello traci, i'm a Vietnamese people too. Actually i'm not good at english and sepcially the Vietnamese people can make some trouble in speaking more than writing.I just have been in Canada about eight months and studying at High school in calgary canada. I want to make some friends to improve my own english.