Business Vietnamese — meetings, emails, follow-ups

Polite, professional Vietnamese phrases for the working day: scheduling, agendas, status updates, and the pronoun etiquette of Vietnamese business.

Business & meetings · 베트남어 · 🇻🇳

business & meetings 베트남어을(를) 왜 배워야 하나요?

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.

실제로 사용할 10가지 구문

이 10개의 문장은 베트남어에서 business & meetings의 약 95%를 다룹니다. 스피커 아이콘을 탭하여 발음을 들어보세요.

1
Hãy lên lịch họp cho thứ Ba tuần sau.
영어: Let's schedule a meeting for next Tuesday.
2
Anh gửi tôi chương trình họp được không?
영어: Could you send me the agenda?
3
Tôi sẽ liên hệ lại qua email.
영어: I'll follow up via email.
4
Tuần sau mình trao đổi lại nhé.
영어: Let's touch base next week.
5
Tôi muốn đề xuất hạn chót là [X].
영어: I'd like to propose a deadline of [X].
6
Mình dời cuộc họp sang [giờ] được không?
영어: Can we move the meeting to [time]?
7
Tình trạng [dự án] thế nào?
영어: What's the status on the [project]?
8
Tôi có câu hỏi về hợp đồng.
영어: I have a question about the contract.
9
Cảm ơn anh đã dành thời gian.
영어: Thank you for your time.
10
Mình quay lại vấn đề này sau nhé.
영어: Let's circle back on this.

샘플 대화

이 대화를 소리 내어 읽어보세요. 동일한 10가지 구문이 문맥 속에서 사용됩니다.

A
Chào buổi sáng. Cảm ơn mọi người đã đến. Tôi có chương trình ngắn.
Good morning. Thanks for joining. I have a brief agenda.
B
Vâng, mời anh.
Sure, please go ahead.
A
Đầu tiên, tình trạng ra mắt Q3. Sau đó, ngân sách. Cuối cùng, câu hỏi.
First, the Q3 launch status. Then, the budget. Finally, open questions.
B
Đã rõ. Tôi sẽ gửi chương trình qua email.
Understood. I'll send the agenda via email.

문화 및 에티켓

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.

이 시나리오 학습 방법

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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