Ask for square nails with làm cho tui móng vuông. If it hurts, say đau quá. A little shorter is cắt ngắn thêm một xíu nữa. A different color is đổi màu khác cho mình nha. For a haircut, the question is ủa, mới cắt tóc hả?
The lines below are what you say, and what you will hear, at a nail appointment and a haircut. Tâm's nail salon videos are Southern. She says làm cho tui for 'do this for me.' Hoàng Trâm's hair video is Northern, so you will hear mình where Tâm says tui.
Tâm calls the shop a tiệm làm móng and the technician a thợ làm nail. Hear the nail lines in Nail Shapes and Ouch, It Hurts, then the haircut question from Hoàng Trâm. The hair salon videos name the tools on the counter.
Say the request with Tâm. It is always làm cho tui, then the shape. Làm cho tui móng vuông. Tui is her word for 'me.' After the shapes, she asks Bạn muốn làm móng gì? Answer with the shape you want. You will choose among these again in the nail art game, including móng ngắn on one hand and móng dài on another.
Use these when you want the technician to change something. Tâm says each line a few times, so let it land, then watch her act it out and match the sentence.
The shop is a tiệm làm móng. The person doing the nails is a thợ làm nail. Tâm names a tool, then asks you again a minute later. Part 2 is the polish, the glue, and the lamp. The decorations, phụ kiện trang trí, come back when she plays the color game.
Tâm picks a shape, a color, and something to stick on. The shapes are the ones from Nail Shapes. She chooses móng ngắn, then móng dài and móng nhọn. One hand is phong cách biển cả, a sea look, with seahorses and a pearl ring.
Someone's hair looks different from the last time you saw them. Ủa, mới cắt tóc hả? Did you just get a haircut? Cắt tóc is also what scissors do, in the tool section below.
For your own hair, say Mình có tóc dài. For someone else, change the person: Mẹ mình có tóc ngắn. Anh ấy có tóc thẳng. Bạn mình có tóc xoăn.
Listen for dùng để, 'is for.' Cây kéo dùng để cắt tóc: scissors are for cutting hair. With clippers she says hớt tóc. Cắt tóc is the same word as in mới cắt tóc hả?
These four are for parting, styling, shaving, and keeping hair out of the way. If the scissors and clippers are still new, watch Part 1 before this one.
Learn the bowl, the brush, the gloves, the cape, and the dye before you press play. The dye is thuốc nhuộm tóc, and thuốc nhuộm tóc dùng để đổi màu tóc: it changes the hair color. For a different nail polish, the line is đổi màu khác.
Give each tool one job as you watch. A dryer làm khô tóc. A curling iron làm xoăn tóc. A flat iron làm thẳng tóc. Xoăn is also how Hoàng Trâm describes curly hair.
Hear Tâm say the nail lines, then Hoàng Trâm ask mới cắt tóc hả? The tool videos name what is on the table while those sentences are going by.
Say Làm cho tui móng vuông. The same request works for the other shapes Tâm teaches: móng tròn (round), móng nhọn (pointed), móng vuông bầu (squoval), móng dài (long), and móng ngắn (short). If she asks Bạn muốn làm móng gì? (What kind of nails do you want?), answer with làm cho tui and the shape.
Say Đau quá. You will also hear Ui da, đau quá. A lighter touch is Làm nhẹ nhẹ cho mình nha. If the polish is chipped, say Bị trầy rồi, then Sơn lại cho mình nha (please paint it again).
Cắt ngắn thêm một xíu nữa. Một xíu nữa means a little bit more. Tâm uses this when she wants the nails shorter than they are.
Đổi màu khác cho mình nha. If you do not like the color, say Màu này không đẹp. Sơn màu khác cho mình nha means please paint a different color.
Tâm calls the shop tiệm làm móng and the technician thợ làm nail. Làm móng is getting your nails done. Nail stayed an English word.
Scissors are cây kéo. Cây kéo dùng để cắt tóc: they are for cutting hair. Clippers are tông đơ. Tông đơ dùng để hớt tóc. Thinning shears are kéo tỉa, for tỉa tóc. A comb is cây lược, for brushing, chải đầu.
A haircut is cắt tóc. If someone's hair looks freshly cut, ask Ủa, mới cắt tóc hả? or Bạn mới cắt tóc hả? Shorter than last time: Sao nay lại để tóc ngắn rồi? A compliment is Tóc bạn đẹp quá. Scissors are cây kéo. Clippers are tông đơ, and with clippers the verb is hớt tóc.
Tóc dài is long, tóc ngắn is short, tóc xoăn is curly, and tóc thẳng is straight. For color: tóc đen (black), tóc nâu (brown), tóc vàng (blonde). Talk about your own hair with Mình có tóc dài. For someone else: Anh ấy không có tóc xoăn, anh ấy có tóc thẳng.
Use cắt tóc with scissors: Cây kéo dùng để cắt tóc. Use hớt tóc with clippers: Tông đơ dùng để hớt tóc. When you ask if someone got a haircut, the word is cắt: Mới cắt tóc hả?