getting to know you conversation starters

Learn Vietnamese with Bao

Getting to know people

freestyle speaking practice with a partner

Each person choose a speaker from the table and practice greeting/getting to know each other.

If you don't have a speaking partner, then pretend to be one of the people in the table and practice introducing yourself and some of the other people.

name	age	occupation	place of work	nationality	marital status	partner name - age	family
Peter	34	engineer	Viettel company	French	married	Marie - 34	daughter - 9 daughter - 6 son - 4
John	36	teacher	Foreign Trade University in Hanoi	English	married	Anne - 28	daughter - 5 son - 2
Lan	36	police officer	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnamese	married	Huy - 28	son - 2 brother - 24
Makoko	22	student	Vietnam National University in Hanoi	Japanese	single		mother - 58 father - 60 grandmother - 84 sister - 24
Hải	36	doctor	Bạch Mai hospital	Vietnamese	married	Hoa - 33	daughter - 3 mother-in-law - 52
Minh	36	driver	Vũng Tàu city	Vietnamese	married	Hồng - 30	daughter - 3 father - 80
Sumi	36	journalist	CNN television station	Korean	partnered	Tùng - 28
Hoa	33	teacher	primary school	Vietnamese	married	Hải - 36	daughter - 3 mother - 52

Topics and models for conversation

Meeting for the first time

Meeting someone you know - basic greetings

Finding out where people are from

Finding out what people do

Finding out about people's families

Introducing yourself and others