Translation help - Relationship

I suggest you do not go this far and message her. By doing that you are giving her enough time to make a beautiful screen play against you which she can easily convince her husband. If your friend love her blindly, never accept your story even though you show that photograph. Yeah, this is high-tech age. It's simple to manipulate or recreate a professional quality photo with the help of image editing software! May be he is your best and long term friend. But in this case he should see everything with his eyes, closely. Until then hearsay is unacceptable for him like any courts 
If you are strongly belief that she is wrong, then just help out your friend directly to watch and see by himself and withdraw from her.
By messaging or talking her first, you are giving her a good opportunity to escape from wrong doings!

if she got married to an american guy,then you dont need to have someone translate the letter as she could understand english

Sorry to say that I have not responded to do the translation but to help you avoid a possible problem resulting in you losing your friend and his wife due to a misunderstanding.

The problem with your message is that it shows that you have decided that this meeting could NOT be innocent. You may be surprised to learn that this Vietnamese man is a relative etc.

I suggest that you change your messaage as follows.

Please understand that this is intended as a constructive crticism only.

Hi v,

I hope this message does not offend you and mean no disrespect to you regarding this matter. I recently saw you with a man who was not your husband, you were holding hands and kissing. Forgive me if I am making a wrong assumption about this matter but I was very shocked to have seen this. If this is not an innocent meeting i feel that I have to let your husband know about it.  I know that your husband will be deeply hurt when I inform him.  The reason I have contacted you is to give you the chance to tell your husband the truth, and if it is not innocent to end the other affair and fix your marriage. I know you love your husband and he loves you dearly. Please explain to your husband otherwise I feel it is my duty to tell him what I saw and show him the photos I have taken of you and the other man. I do not want to do this and am hoping you value your marriage enough to be the honest person.

Thank you

John, it's a shame you are caught in the middle. it's probably easier for you to confront your buddy than allow a moral conscience to take their due course. state the facts of what you've had seen and make no further assumptions. whether it is by you or the girl, your buddy is gonna get hurt. if you give the girl an opportunity, it will allow her to make strategic plans or maybe turn the situation against you. just my two cents.

Don't go further if you don't sure what you saw. If maybe broken their family by accident. I think you can go and talk to her personally and see what her respond. But I have to warn you, be careful on what you are doing.

sending the message to the wife is a mistake and only gives her an advantage. you would be doing a disservice to your buddy. unless of course you are actually the husband ? you need to give the photos to your buddy and let him decide his course of action...the best being retreat and exit quietly.

If I were u, I would give those photos to my buddy and let him find out the truth though truth may hurt.

This is the reality  as what you saw.  But unfortunately  Most of Foreigners  don't have a chance to  seem,  Most of Vietnamese  who are married Foreigners  look likes it's kind of gambling for them, ( Not All) one hands   they using forging husband Money  and other hand they play with Vietnamese man.

To dear John !
The translation is :
Chào V
Hy vọng rằng tin nhắn này không xúc phạm hay có ý thiếu tôn trọng bạn . Gần đây , tôi thấy bạn tay trong tay , ôm hôn một người đàn ông không phải là chồng của bạn . Tôi đã rất sốc và biết rằng điều đó sẽ rất làm tổn thương chồng bạn khi anh ấy biết được . Lý do tôi liên lạc với bạn là vì tôi muôn cho bạn một cơ hội nói sự thật cho chồng của bạn , chấm dứt việc ngoại tình và vun đắp cho hôn nhân của bạn . Tôi biết là bạn yêu chồng bạn và anh ấy cũng yêu bạn rất nhiều .
Hãy giải thích cho chồng bạn , bằng không , tôi cảm thấy có trách nhiệm phải nói cho anh ấy biết , và cho anh ấy xem những hình ảnh mà tôi đã chụp được : bạn và người đàn ông khác .
Tôi không muốn phải làm điều này , và mong rằng giá trị hôn nhân của bạn đủ để bạn trung thực .
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Dear John ! Think that is an accident ! Hope your friends can find out the good way to solve it !
Have a nice day !

I wonder why they have fallen in love w each other for more 3years but she can not understand what you mean.....btw dont go so far,maybe many reasons in their relationship you have no idea...

I am a Vietnamese man. In my 12 years that I stay in Saigon, I would say that it is really really rare to see a Vietnamese man and a Vietnamese woman kissing in the street. If they want to do something then that is where a short-stay in a small hotel will do, that industry is growing quickly though. I would bet you 10 to 1, you and I will scout thru Saigon for 3 days to each and every hotel and you will not find any man or woman kissing. It's a good bet. After all, it's an Eastern country. It's possible, but very improbable.

Hi there
I'm Hong nguyen
I live in hcmc
I just surf your sms and I think you are good friend
I can help you somethings but we need talk more to know and clearly the truth

Cheers

You do see them kiss. Mainly in dark parks and river.

That I would agree. I do that, too. But is it unusual for a married woman to kiss another man in broad day light in front of a hotel? I mean like I said before, it's highly improbable. I wonder if the story is true. I ponder the writer's motive.

Ah yes you're right, I missed your context. It is rare for couples to kiss in broad day light.

So imagine you were the writer, John, I believe. You have a good friend, married. One day you just trolling out the street and saw the scene. Two people kissing, I perceived. Not a very uncommon thing for a Westerner so there was no reason for me to focus. I would look away to give them their privacy. Oh no no, I was in Vietnam. That scene is not common. I must take a look. How far from them were I? Maybe 12 feet? maybe 20 feet. They were kissing. Ok. That woman looked strangely familiar. Oh, it was the woman that my friend got married to only a few months ago (maybe 4 to 6 months I guess). The first reaction that any sensible man would do in that situation would be to draw their big, fat Iphone out and take a good picture? That I am not sure. But I did it anyway. How long was the kiss, must be pretty long so I could take a good picture. How passinate was the kiss, must be pretty passinate. People would use both hands to hold the girl's head and neck when kissing so as to keep her long hair in place. I guess her hair was long, wasn't it? It must be very confusing to recognize a person from a kissing scene because we could only see a part of the whole head. It would be easier to recognize a person when they are taking an profile picture. Woman in Vietnam, one thing you must have noticed, are very protected of their precious skin. Therefore they would wear all kind of protection from face mask to sun glasses, even they wear a kind of long dress to cover their legs when they drive on a scooter because the sun is too hot. So when you see a woman on the street, you could see their face mask and sun glasses only. Good luck identifying them.

This guy's story doesn't smell right. A hare-brained excuse to get someone to translate a blackmail note? Risking getting beat up by some Viet dude (and girlfriend) instead of just telling his "best friend"? Who would concoct some weird plan like this? Oh yeah, a fiction writer. And, where is johnsimmons670 now? 16 responses to his very first post, 2 weeks later, and no followup? I calling this fake, you've all been tricked.

Fiction writer

gobot wrote:

where is johnsimmons670 now? 16 responses to his very first post, 2 weeks later, and no followup?

You are completely right. I've checked and johnsimmons670 never connected again...

Better closing this thread.

thanks everyone for your participation,

Julien