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1.every year on the lunar calendar that the person passed away they have the death anniversary where the family gets together and you know does the prayers gives the offerings of food and the paper money and whatever that family member liked so they can enjoy the afterlife what's up everyone podcast slow and Clear G what's up English in today's podcast you are going to learn a ton of words and phrases to talk about your family but also to talk about family traditions and things related to family culture in Vietnam so first you will learn pretty much all of the words you need to talk about your family members of your immediate family but also your extended family and after that we'll talk about the differences in culture between Western families and Vietnamese families for example do westerners have a death anniversary and how many generations live together in one house so between Vietnamese families and Western families there are a few big differences about the culture and the 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really appreciate your support and I hope you love the product and thank you to everybody who has supported my channel uh by buying the product or by commenting on my videos liking even just watching thank you everyone for all of your support I really really appreciate it thank you okay so let's start the podcast cast first you're going to learn the words for talking about your family like all of the members of your family and other words to do that I'm going to tell you about my family all right so in my immediate family I have a mother and a father who are both in their 60s and I also have a sibling a sibling just means a brother or sister so my sibling is an older brother he's about 3 years older than me and I also have a stepbrother a step sister and a stepmom in English when we put step before sister or brother or Dad or Mom what that means is that person is a family member who is not blood related to you not biologically related to you but they are related through marriage so when I was young my parents divorced and then my dad got a new wife but she already had kids and so her kids be became my step brother and step sister and we could say she became my stepmom to recap in my immediate family I have a mother a father an older brother a step sister a step brother and a stepmom and I am the youngest out of all of them we don't really have a specific word to describe the youngest child we just say the youngest child like we don't say or anything like that if there are three kids and you are in the middle that child is called the middle child and the oldest one is the oldest child so there's the youngest child the middle child or the oldest child so now let's move on to the extended family so my brother my biological older brother has a wife and a daughter so his wife would be my do you know she would be my sisterinlaw sisterin-law so an in-law is someone that is also related to you by marriage so for example if you get married to your husband or to your wife their parents are your mother or father in-law right if your brother or sister gets married their spouse is your brother or sisterin-law all right so my brother he has a daughter and she is my niece my niece now if my brother had a son he would be my nephew so your siblings children are your nieces and nephews and to them you are there uncles or aunts right so now I'll talk about my extended family on my mom's side so in Daily English you can talk about the family on your mom's side or your dad's side simply by saying on my mom's side for example my granddad or my grandfather on my mom's side or if they are your dad's father you can say my grandfather on my dad's side but you can also use the word maternal which is an adjective that means on your mom's side or paternal which is an adjective that means on your dad's side so your mom's mom would be your maternal grandmother and your dad's mom would be your paternal grandmother maternal paternal so now I have one remaining grandparent who is my grandfather and he's on my mom's side so I have a maternal grandfather I also have a few aunts and uncles who are my mom's brothers and sisters and all of them live in England because my mom is English she was born and raised in England as for my father's side of the family from what I know uh I have an uncle um and a few cousins who live in montre all Canada and the rest of the extended family on my father's side live in Italy because my father was adopted by my grandfather who was from Italy he has now passed away but because he came to Canada in I think the 1940s and he adopted my father in around 1960 but all of his family is still in Italy because he's from Italy so I could say that my grandfather he was not my biological grandfather but we still consider him like a blood relative I don't consider him as any different at all all right so that was my family let's recap on the words we just learned so for for your immediate family you have a mother a father you have siblings and your siblings are your brothers and sisters also if one of your parents divorced and remarried then you might have a step brother a step sister a stepmom or a stepdad as for your extended family you can have a grandmother grandfather uh Aunts Uncles cousins nieces nephews and those are the main words we use in English so one big difference and a mistake that Vietnamese people often make is they call their cousin their sister or their brother because in Vietnamese you call them your sister or your brother right but in English your sister and brother is only the child of your mother and father you have the same mother and father your cousin is a different word and we don't call our cousins our sisters or brothers so that's one thing to remember because it can cause a bit of confusion I remember with one of my friends she said I'm hanging out with my sister and I said what I thought you didn't have a sister and she was talking about her cousin and then I realized okay yeah your cousin so it can cause a bit of confusion in English all right let's move on to some differences in Tradition and culture between the west and Vietnam so firstly let's talk about extended families versus nuclear families in the west most of the households are just the parents and children and when the children move out then it's just the parents but in Vietnam many extended families live together so there are a lot of different Generations in one house sometimes three even four generations can live in the same house with the great grandparents or something like that and in the west that is extremely rare so that's one thing that is different the next point is how westerners take care of the elderly versus how the Vietnamese take care of the elderly so when when someone reaches the age of not being able to take care of themselves in the west often people will put that family member in a retirement home or a nursing home and these places if it's a good one they can be very nice because they take care of that family member and then they get to live in a community with other people who are the same age as them so they can be around friends and of course the family will go in and visit them but in Vietnam usually the elders live at home and they are taken care of by the family so I think that's a great way of doing it but just you know different cultures different societies I think it depends on the family with how they want to do it I'm not going to say which one I think is better or not cuz it just depends on what that person wants if they want to be in a home or with their family okay so another thing that is different between Western families and Vietnamese families is the parental involvement so in Vietnam it seems like the parents are a little more strict with their children than in the west these days I'm not so sure because I see a lot of parents these days not strict with their children at all um and then some are very strict so it just depends also in Vietnam it's often expected for the children to send money back to their parents but in the west you pretty much never hear about the kids sending money back to their parents as for marriage I'm not sure if this is still very common these days I think it is but kids are more pressured to get married than kids in the West for example I'm not married and my family will just ask me are you dating anyone and that's about it they won't say oh you should you know you should find someone you should get married they don't they never say that and most western families don't say that they ask am I dating anyone if I am how's it going if not then that's it we move on to the next part of the conversation here's one thing I want to go over briefly not too long but one big difference between the west and Vietnam Nam is in the west you have a death anniversary in the west we don't have this death anniversary so guys I'm not an expert on this okay if I say anything kind of wrong or if you want to add more information please feel free to leave a comment I talked with a few friends and tried to understand this part of Vietnamese culture as much as I could so from what I know after someone in your family passes away then there will be 49 days and in that 49 days the family maybe will go to Temples we'll pray we'll leave offerings for that family member because after 49 days it is decided how they will reincarnate how their next life will be and again I'm not an expert I've heard there are lots of different Traditions some do it after 49 days some do it after a 100 days and then every year on the lunar calendar so every year on the lunar calendar that the person passed away they have the death anniversary where the family gets together and you know does the prayers gives the offerings of food and the paper money and whatever that family member liked so they can enjoy the afterlife and in the west we do not do that we simply have a funeral when someone passes away and then maybe some people will go to their grave and and leave flowers or leave something for them but it's not a big uh celebration I'm not sure if celebration is the right word but it's not a big event every year for the anniversary of their passing all right so I don't want to make this podcast too long but I think we are going to end with that I hope you learned a ton of useful words to talk about your family and again guys please don't forget to leave a comment if you want to correct something I said or if you want to tell me more about your culture because I think in different parts of Vietnam they might do it differently so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed the podcast uh check out the Thousand most common words in the description below and I will see you guys in the next video goodbye