{"id":6809,"date":"2016-11-03T10:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2024-06-13T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T09:43:11","slug":"vietnam-greetings-etiquettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/vietnam-greetings-etiquettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Greetings & Etiquettes| How to Say Hello in Vietnamese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings play a significant role in the spiritual life of Vietnamese. It is not only a communication etiquette but also a mental expression of community. With historical and cultural traditions over a thousand years, greetings represent national characters such as respecting elders, teachers or appreciating other social relationships.\u00a0 For Vietnamese, a greeting is not a simple sentence. There are many different ways to give the signal that you are greeting other people. If you are planning to make a Vietnam vacation packages<\/a>, let’s take a quick view of Vietnam greeting and etiquette.<\/p>\n

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Knowing the local language is highly appreciated when you when traveling to Vietnam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do You Say Greetings in Vietnamese?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Say \u201cXin chao\u201d as a common greeting.
\nThis greeting is more appropriate for non-native speakers because it is the easiest and the most polite way to greet Vietnamese people. Native speakers do not usually say that because it sounds formal.<\/p>\n

Say \u201cChao ban\u201d when you are close.
\nIf you get a close relationship with the person you are talking to, let\u2019s use \u201cChao ban\u201d as a greeting. \u201cBan\u201d is an informal way of meaning \u201cyou\u201d in English. It can be used for both genders but in approximately the same age as you. Therefore, do not say that to elders or someone you want to show your respect.<\/p>\n

Use \u201cChao anh\u201d, \u201cChao chi\u201d, \u201cChao co\u201d, \u201cChao chu\u201d, etc for elders.
\nThese phrases are only used for people who are older than you. Remember that you say \u201cChao anh\u201d and \u201cChao chu\u201d if the listeners are male. If they are female, let\u2019s say \u201cChao chi\u201d or \u201cChao co\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cChao em\u201d to younger people.
\nFor younger people, say \u201cChao em\u201d when you meet them. Do not use that for someone older or the same age as you.<\/p>\n

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Vietnam Greetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vietnam\u00a0Additional Greetings<\/span><\/h2>\n

Say \u201cAlo\u201d when answering the phone. If someone calls you, let\u2019s say \u201cAlo\u201d that have the same meaning to \u201cXin chao\u201d. This way is common for phone calls not for communication in face-to-face.<\/p>\n

Greetings based on the time of a day.
\nVietnamese people do not usually greet others according to the time of the day because it sounds relatively unnatural. These greetings are:
\n\u201cGood morning\u201d is \u201cChao buoi sang\u201d
\n\u201cGood afternoon\u201d is \u201cChao buoi trua\u201d
\n\u201cGood evening\u201d is \u201cChao buoi toi\u201d<\/p>\n

When you want to say “How are you?” in Vietnamese, it means “B\u1ea1n c\u00f3 kh\u1ecfe kh\u00f4ng? “. You can change flexibly the word \u201cban\u201d into other words like \u201canh\u201d, \u201cchi\u201d, etc. to make it appropriate for specific situations and relationships. To reply to this kind of greeting, you inform them of your health status then you can ask them again with a question \u201cCon ban?\u201d like \u201cAnd you?\u201d in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings play a significant role in the spiritual life of Vietnamese. It is not only a communication etiquette but also a mental expression of community. With historical and cultural traditions over a thousand years, greetings represent national characters such as respecting elders, teachers or appreciating other social relationships.\u00a0 For Vietnamese, a greeting is not a […]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tradition-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.govietnam.tours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}