Vietnamese phrase

How to say “Go slowly” in Vietnamese

Go slowly” in Vietnamese is

Đi chậm thôi

Hear it in both accents

Vietnamese sounds noticeably different north to south. Both are recorded so you can match wherever you are.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Used in a sentence

Xe đông quá, anh đi chậm thôi.

There's a lot of traffic, please go slowly.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Worth knowing

Word by word: Đi (go) + chậm (slow) + thôi (just/only)

When you would use it

This line comes from the Crossing the Street situation pack in XinChao (Beginner) — the moments you actually run into in Việt Nam, not textbook drills.

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