Syllable (Vowels with vowels)

We can combine vowels together to form rhymes:

a, ă, â, e, ê, o, ô, ơ, i, y, u, ư

Some examples for common rhymes with pictures:

• AO, AU sounds similar with “AO” and ÂU sounds similar h wit“AU” in English (The difference of these 3 mainly bases on the lenght of the sound)

 

        Chào – Hi 

       /Chao/

        Tàu – Ship

       /Tao/

 

          Cầu – Bridge

         /Kau/

• AI sounds similar with “AI”

       AY sounds similar with “AY”

       ÂY sounds similar  with “EI” in English

(The difference of these 3 mainly bases on the lenght of the sound)

     Hai – Two

    /Hai/

 

     Cay – Spicy

     /Kay/

 

           Tây – West

           /Tei/

   (Vietnamese use “Tây” to call westerner or white people too)

 

• OI, ÔI sounds similar with “OI” in English (The difference of these 2  bases on the lenght of the sound.)

 

 

 

               Nói – Speak

 

              /Noi/

 

          Tôi – I/me/myself

          /Toi/

• OE and OA have O as middle vowel so E and A are the main vowels, it sounds like

W in between

Khoẻ – Fine (Greeting)

/Khwe/

     Hoa – Flower 

    /Hwa/

• EO sounds similar with “EL” in English

      Heo – Pig (Southern Vietnamese)

     /Hel/

• ÊU sounds similar with “EW” in English but with Ê mouth shape

             Lều – Tent

/Leu/

• ƠI sounds similar with “OI” in English but with Ơ mouth shape

          Trời ơi – OMG

          /Troi oi/