Tenth graders meet a feature that makes Vietnamese special — classifiers (loại từ). Before a noun you add a little word that tells what kind of thing it is: con for animals and living creatures (con chó = dog), and cái for objects (cái bàn = table). They sort nouns by their classifier.
Students will be able to…
con or cái? How does Vietnamese use a little word to classify every noun?
Project this and sort each Vietnamese noun by its classifier — con (living things) or cái (objects).
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How does Vietnamese classify a noun?
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Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-Low).
Compare classifier systems.
Interpretive: identify a noun’s classifier.
Presentational: use classifiers.
Interpersonal: use nouns correctly.
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Have students write two Vietnamese nouns with the correct classifier (con / cái). A printable Vietnamese classifiers sheet is in the World Languages library.
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