Actually, they pronounce it as one syllable VYET NAM.
Tina
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Jez Cunningham <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Vi Et Nam ?
>
> Jez
>
> On 11 Sep 2014, at 23:00, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> One thing I learned about Vietnamese is that no word has more than one
> >> syllable, so it's Ha Long Bay, not Halong Bay and Viet Nam, not Vietnam.
> >
> > I like that a lot. Words should be brief.
> >
> > A G
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