Comments on: Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong

By: langtula

langtula — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:52:21 +0000

Well Donnie i agree with you in appreciating that he took his time n hard work to understand and appreciates HXH. But that man’s version on some of the tranlastion is so shitty that if I read HXH’s poems in English i woulda have to question myself why it get to be translated. A lot of language and cultural limitation led him to such mistakes, plus there are some phrases in vietnamese that doesnt have anything equivalent in Enlighs. For example, he translated “Na(m thi` muo^i` hoa.” = “Once upon a while” “Co^’ dam’ a(n xoi” = “To take a beating”

By: Chu Nom is a form of Vietnamese

Chu Nom is a form of Vietnamese — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:11:09 +0000

Chu Nom is just the old form of writing of Vietnamese language. However, this form of writing is no longer taught in school. The current writing system of Vietnamese was actually created by Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), a French missionary. This alphabitical script or National script (chu Quoc Ngu). However, chu Nom was still widely used beside Chinese writing(chu Nho) until the early 20th century when chu Quoc Ngu became the official form of writing.

By: Xuan Le

Xuan Le — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:46:57 +0000

I’d like to know where I could research her book on the internet.

By: Donny

Donny — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:25:23 +0000

So I was wrong about Nom sounding like “Chu Nho.” Nom is just another way of writing Vietnamese. So if you already know Vietnamese, learning Nom calligraphy should not be too hard.

By: Donny

Donny — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:04:27 +0000

HH, my understanding of Nom is also limited, but if you visit Nom Foundation site and look up a word. You would know how it sounds like. For instance, I looked up the word “die” which is “chet” in Vietnamese but “tu” in Nom. So I am guessing that Nom sounds like “Chu Nho.”

By: hh

hh — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:06:34 +0000

How’s sounds (pronounce) between “Nom” and “Vietnamese” ?

By: hh

hh — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:48:17 +0000

How her works from a “Nom” to “present Vietnamese language”Who is a translator for that ….? The question go on go on those great poets such as “Kieu-Nguyen Du”,Nguyen Trai were written in “Nom” then Who are an translators..? .This topic alway fascinated me.