Here for good
The conversations a phrasebook never covers
Nobody writes a travel guide for the water delivery, the building manager, or the Zalo message from your shipper. These are the situations that repeat every week once you actually live here — and the ones that decide whether people switch to English on you.
The situations
Each one starts from the situation, gives you the line, and lets you say it out loud before the real moment.
Water delivery
Weekly, and never in English
Shipper phone calls
They will call, not message
Help and repairs
Describing what broke
Banking and transfers
Where mistakes get expensive
Zalo etiquette
The app everything actually happens on
Office small talk
What people say at lunch
Becoming a regular
The point where prices change
Parking
A whole ritual nobody warns you about