Good news if you plan on learning Vietnamese
Vietnam National University, Hanoi has been tasked to create an online Vietnamese language education site for members of the diaspora. According to the university’s website, the programme will feature six levels and some lessons will be launched this month.
I'm honestly surprised and only realizing now that large powerful countries like the US, China, and Russia don't provide free courses to learn their respective languages. I think that would help push their popularity a lot more. Though I don't think English is necessary because it's basically expected that you learn it as a child regardless of country.
Learning a European language: Cultural exchange
Learning Vietnamese: SOFT POWER
Oh no. Is Vietnam now getting the China/Venezuela/badcountry treatment?
Doesn't Vietnam also have a big textile industry that is based around American firms? I seem to recall that certain companies were moving out of China, because the rapid increase in living standards had caused the Chinese labour-market to become too expensive for labour-intensive products like textile.
I mean, yeah, but Vietnam has kinda been put on the backburner because it's been rabidly anti-China since the 1979 invasion.
I’m honestly surprised and only realizing now that large powerful countries like the US, China, and Russia don’t provide free courses to learn their respective languages.
US
free education
Well there’s your problem
Grammar wise I find Vietnamese super interesting, but I have a hard "no tonal languages" policy for myself. I can hardly pronounce English, including tone as part of the grammar is gonna fuck me up.
I already disappointed Colonel Qaddafi when I gave up on Arabic, I don't wanna make President Xi upset too.
I think every official South African language, of the 11 we have, excluding English and Afrikaans, is tonal lmao.
It's why westerners primary learn Swahili if they want to learn a language from sub Saharan Africa, as Swahili is not tonal, while something like Zulu is.
Afrikaans is like mangled Dutch, right? Not like Dutch wasn't mangled already of course.
It's evolved both as a pidgin of Dutch that was spoken to/by slaves and an actual version of the 1700s Hollandish dialect that was spoken by settlers at the same time. It's seen as a sister language nowadays.
I feel like the Dutch calling Afrikaans "mangled Dutch" is a cope. Afrikaans has way shorter words for a lot of things because needless syllables got stripped out when the language got transmitted, leading to it being way easier and quicker to converse in. Dutch tends to have a lot of sentences that feel like 2x longer than they should be, but they're just like that because there is no briefer way of putting something.
Kind of, like I can understand Dutch when I hear it. But Afrikaans is more like "why use many words when few do trick" in comparison
man I speak english and I spent like literally the first 15 years of mylife with my mom getting mad at me about some kind of "tone" I had and I'm like "i'm just talking"
It’s so fucking difficult. I can kiiinda tell them apart when it’s slow but if you speed things up to even half conversation speed I lose it immediately
That's so cool! Vietnam and Cuba are the two countries that always give me hope that there can be a socialist future for everyone, despite the odds.
the Catholic Church of Cuba is against it lmao
maybe they should do something about those guys
I’m honestly surprised and only realizing now that large powerful countries like the US, China, and Russia don’t provide free courses to learn their respective languages.
China does/did do that. They're called Confucius Institutes and they were opening up in a lot of places for a while. Then the :freeze-peach: loving West (who protects the right of Nazis to use slurs and fly Swastikas) started closing them down because of paranoia over "foreign interference".
