"Khán giả của chúng tôi rất kiên nhẫn."

Translation: Our audiences are very patient.

[JanekKenti]

Should be "our audience is very patient" because "audience" is a collective noun

[JanekKenti]

Otherwise the Vietnese would be "Những khán giả"

[StewartMM]

I would think you are right.

[KirynSilverwing]

Unless you're referring to the audiences of separate events, like the audiences of all the concerts in the tour collectively, of course. "We've had a lot of technical problems in this tour, but our audiences have been very patient."

That being said, yeah, there's no indication that the Vietnamese sentence intended this to be plural.

[vngdhuyen]

khán giả can mean either the collective audience or the individual spectator

[Dan553966]

The problem is with the English translation. "Audiences" means different groups of spectators rather than plural spectators.

[wim.matthi]

Audiences doesnt make much sense in english indeed

[AnCatDubh]

Vietnamese-originated Sino-Vietnamese compound:

• 看 ‘look; see; watch’

Mandarin: kàn

Cantonese: hon

Literary Hokkien: khàn

• 者 (agent suffix)

Mandarin: zhě

Cantonese: jé

Hokkien: chiá

[caseycuong]

I had only heard cử tọa as a word for audience before this. Any difference in usage between the two?