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I shall embrace my wraith lest my soul quiver. I have no voice: you slit my throat. I have no vision: you slashed my eyes. I have no touch: you abscised my limbs. Blind was I for your blindness and deaf for your deafness. God’s consort were you: entrenched in delirium and heedless to my pleas of reconciliation. My veins were your map of victimhood, and my heart, your confessional; yet I was the fatality in this cataclysm — nay, abomination — we christened <i>love</i>. I bore witness to your plummet into the fathomless bowels of disillusionment. Akin to my dismembered corpse are your otherworldly predilections; your reason is the m

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outhpiece for your nonage. A beast of burden have I become, unbeknownst to me: my reality that none can gainsay. I died. You killed me. We killed us, and our laurels have withered. An enchantress are you, a necromancer; may your mana never call to my spirit, for in my demise is your contentment — rife with fancy. Caustically will I grin at your obtuseness. Gods, too, die; veins, too, dissever. Thus, I say unto you: awaken from your reverie. Look upon the rose and cypress and aster and iris; watch them solely as them. You pitiful woman. I gave you sight; yet you failed to see. Behold the future you have wrought.</p></article></body>

Essential Vietnamese for Backpackers and Travellers

Learning Language

Can we speak English in Vietnam?

There are some people who can speak English in Vietnam, but it is not that everybody can speak English even in bigger cities.

I have been to Vietnam three times so far and I am going there again in December. Generally, people can speak basic English in tourist spots in cities.

You might not need any English speakers at food stands because you can point at the food on offer.

If you are going to the country area you cannot expect to meet English speakers. In local restaurants in small towns, they might not have an English menu. Therefore, it is useful to learn survival Vietnamese in advance.

When I crossed the border from China to Vietnam, people spoke Chinese in the border town. So, I imagine that people who live nearby the border speak neighbouring countries’ languages, but not much English.

Essential Vietnamese for Backpackers and Travellers

I have just started learning basic Vietnamese. As I said, I am going to Vietnam again in December. So, I will try to learn as much as possible before that.

Here, I will list the most useful Vietnamese phrases for backpackers and travellers in pursuit of leisure. When you travel, the essential phrases are limited. I will list them in my order of priority.

This list is live and I will build on it. The more I learn, the longer the list will become.

Note: If you are a Medium member, you can bookmark this page so that you can refer to the list offline when you are travelling as well, although audio files need to be online.

Good luck with your Vietnamese!!