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Monday, March 12, 2018

Learn Vietnamese, Culture: Cây sung / Sống sung túc - To live in comfort (Intermediate level)

"Sung" in sung túc, đầy đủ

Đầy đủ -> Enough (money, etc)

Sung túc is an adjective -> enough. Cuộc sống sung túc - A comfortable life. / Sống sung túc - To live in comfort

Sung túc is a Sino-Vietnamese word - Chinese: 充足 - Korean: 충분하다



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Monday, April 13, 2015

Ăn cơm = Dùng cơm = Eat rice?

Vietnamese people eat rice for lunch and dinner (And a lot of people also eat rice for breakfast, especially they eat "Cơm tấm sườn bì"

Eat rice (steamed rice/boiled rice) = Ăn cơm

When a Western person meet someone, he/she will ask "How are you / How are you doing". Vietnamese people will ask "Ăn cơm chưa?" or "Ăn sáng chưa?"

Ăn cơm is used widely 

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