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Việt H. Nguyễn So, after moving back to Vietnam, and no longer having access to my phone number while I was living in Germany, I kinda lost access to my Amazon account, which have all of my kindle ebooks.

I've also been busy with work, so that kinda explained why I've not been on goodreads for like nearly two years...


message 1: by Việt (last edited Apr 28, 2021 08:55AM)

Việt H. Nguyễn I talk and write normal standard English, like I've lived in America before and people mistook me for someone who was born there all the time. So, it came as a surprise to me when readers and reviewers keep saying Eyes reads differently than what they're used to. It took me a while but I finally figured it out.

Turns out, I'm so in tune with both Vietnamese and English, and when I translated for Nghịch Tử, my mind pretty much synced with his, so my translation was basically translating the sentence structure along with all the hidden meaning, wordplay and everything else in between. And since he has a habit of using stuff that's exclusive to the Vietnamese language, I'm fairly sure I invented a few new ways of using English without even meaning to... It reads differently because my best friend doesn't freakin' write like a normal person...


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