Quốc Ngữ, Modern Written Vietnamese

More than once, I have been asked to write my name in "real Vietnamese" and not in "English". Most Americans expect the Vietnamese script to look like Chinese characters, or the written Korean, or the Japanese Hira-gana and Kata-ganạ My "English" name is actually written in the modern romanized Vietnamese - the Japanese equivalent is Romaji (1) - without the diacritic marks above, under or by the side of the vowels.