This will come as no surprise to serious students of the Vietnamese language … but there is a vast subtlety to various words that convey entirely different meanings. Take ba, ba, and ba. Depending on how you pronounce the words, they could mean: three, father, or...
Children and War
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A week from Tuesday, Vietnam marks the anniversary of the day North Vietnamese troops took over Saigon in 1975, a moment that “re-unified” the country. In America’s history classes, the conflict that ended in 1975 is called the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, we’ve learned...