Missing tone marks
Tôi muốn mua ma.
Tôi muốn mua mã.
Ma, má, mà, mả, mã and mạ are six different words. Dropping the diacritic changes the sentence.
Vietnamese · Xin chào
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Nhà bạn có nuôi thú cưng không?
Tôi có hai mèo.
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Original:
Tôi có hai mèo.
Suggested:
Tôi có hai con mèo.
A counted noun needs a classifier. Animals take con; books take quyển, flat objects take tờ.
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Pronouns by relationship
Bạn khỏe không, chú?
Chú khỏe không ạ?
Age and relationship decide between anh, chị, em, cô and chú — and you address the other person by that word, not by bạn.
Overusing tense markers
Hôm qua tôi đã đi chợ.
Hôm qua tôi đi chợ.
With a time word like hôm qua already in the sentence, đã is usually redundant.
Choosing the wrong classifier
một cái chó
một con chó
Cái is for inanimate objects; living things take con.
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Yes — they are part of the spelling, and missing ones are flagged like any other mistake. Most phones add them with a Vietnamese keyboard.
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