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?
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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.
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I mean, yeah, but Vietnam has kinda been put on the backburner because it's been rabidly anti-China since the 1979 invasion.
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