Pourquoi le vietnamien par business & meetings ?
Business Vietnamese is the language of one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economies, and a small set of formal phrases reshapes how you are read in a meeting room in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese is built on a pronoun hierarchy that encodes age, gender, and status into every sentence — choosing between 'tôi-anh', 'tôi-chị', and 'em-anh' is not optional grammar but the social glue of the workplace. LangOria's business deck is built around the ten phrases that come up in every meeting and every follow-up email — scheduling, agendas, status updates, and the relationship-first etiquette that Vietnamese business culture expects. What separates professional Vietnamese from conversational Vietnamese is not grammar but register and pronoun choice: the same idea said with 'tôi' and 'anh' sounds respectful; said with 'mày' and 'tao' it sounds like a family quarrel. Vietnamese meetings open with ten minutes of personal warmth — family, hometown, food — before the agenda, and skipping it reads as cold. Master these ten phrases and you can walk into a Vietnamese meeting and hold your weight even at A2. The same phrases double as the opening lines of the follow-up email you send that night.
10 phrases que vous utiliserez réellement
Ces 10 phrases couvrent environ 95% du business & meetings en vietnamien. Appuyez sur l'icône du haut-parleur pour entendre la prononciation.
Dialogue exemple
Lisez cette conversation à voix haute — elle utilise les mêmes 10 phrases en contexte.
Culture et étiquette
Vietnamese business culture runs on 'thể diện' (face) and hierarchy. Address an older man as 'anh', an older woman as 'chị', and a senior as 'ông' / 'bà'; 'tôi' is a safe neutral 'I'. Meetings open with ten minutes of personal small talk — family, hometown, food — before business; cutting to the agenda reads as rude. A direct refusal causes loss of face; expect 'để xem lại' (let's review) or silence to mean a soft no. Exchange business cards with both hands, receive with both hands, and study the card before pocketing it — do not slide it into a back pocket. Relationships come before contracts; expect coffee (cà phê) or a meal before any deal is signed. Hierarchy is pronounced: the boss decides, and public disagreement causes loss of face for everyone. Friday is a normal working day; lunch runs 12:00-13:30. Emails open with 'Kính gửi' (respectfully to) and close with 'Trân trọng' (sincerely). Red ink is for the dead — never write a name in red. Avoid the 1979 border war and politics in early conversation.
Comment étudier ce scénario
Spend five to seven days on the business deck before your first Vietnamese-language meeting. Review the ten phrases with spaced repetition until they come out cold, then drill the email templates out loud — pay attention to the pronoun pair in each, because 'tôi-anh' and 'tôi-chị' are not interchangeable. In real life, listen for the register your colleagues use and mirror it. The ten-minute daily loop plus one real meeting per week is enough to reach working Vietnamese in three months. Layer three habits: (1) Before each meeting, read the agenda once and underline the two phrases you will most likely need ('mình xem lại status nhé', 'dời sang thứ Năm được không?') — your pre-rehearsal. (2) After each meeting, write the follow-up email in Vietnamese, even if a colleague would accept English — the register is locked in by writing. (3) Once a week, rewrite one email you would normally have written in English. By week two your email turnaround should be faster; by month three you should reply in Vietnamese without translating.
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