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Difference Between Personal Pronouns

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Many people have faced many problems while learning other languages. One of those problems is personal pronouns. They are very important because they reflect the cultural communication. This research will give an overview of similarities and differences between personal pronouns as subject and object pronouns in English and Vietnamese.
Introduction
We know that learning other languages is the best way to transmit what you are thinking and your feeling to your other countries’ friends, so that you can build and improve your interconnected relationship. Moreover, you can also learn many and various cultures around the world. But it is not easy to learn a language. Therefore, Comparative Linguistic is a subject which discovers similarities and differences among languages to help our learning be …show more content…

Both languages have the category of politeness.
More than that, English and Vietnamese have respectful pronouns.
In English, we have Mr, Sir ( use for the man ), Mrs, Ms, Madam ( use for the woman ).
In Vietnamese, we have đức, quý, ngài, đấng, bậc, etc. expressing the person that have the high position you really respect them.
Differences
English and Vietnamese personal pronouns also have many different aspects.
Firstly, when we discuss quantity of pronouns of two languages, we realize that English pronouns have limited quantity is about thirty-three pronouns as subject and object while Vietnamese pronouns do not have any documents giving specific figures on the number of their quantity.
Secondly, a discussion about the first-person pronouns show us the English pronoun I must be written uppercase at all times in order to maintain the speaker’s ego, but Vietnamese first-person pronouns do not need to uppercase except when they locate at the head of the sentence. Besides that, there are many pronouns such as tôi, tao, tớ, ect. as first-person in Vietnamese, but there is only one the word I in

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