Vietnam has the biggest French- speaking population in Asia, followed by neighbouring countries Cambodia and Laos. All three countries were once French colonies.
C’est intéressant ! In Vietnamese French,
the vous form of ‘you’ is used in both formal and informal situations.
La capitale : Hanoi La monnaie : Le dong vietnamien
Des montagnes : Le Phan Xi Păng, Sơn Trà, Tà Cú
C’est intéressant !
Although the majority of the population now speaks Vietnamese, many words in the language have their roots in French. For example, the Vietnamese word for ‘spoon’, cùi dìa, is closely related to the
French cuillère. Ga tô, Vietnamese for ‘cake’, is pronounced almost identically to gâteau.
Des rivières : Le Mékong, le fleuve Rouge, la rivière Noire, la rivière de Saïgon
