Yeah Vietnamese is often a very literal language. The names of many Vietnamese dishes are just a description of what's in the dish and how it was prepared. "Bún

Yeah Vietnamese is often a very literal language. The names of many Vietnamese dishes are just a description of what's in the dish and how it was prepared. "Bún thịt nướng", for example, just means noodles with grilled meat. You can handle past and future tenses with just a couple of modifier words. In a lot of ways it's a pretty elegant language and the only really hard thing about it is getting the tones down and learning all the slang people use in everyday conversation.