because Vietnam was a French colony and the Vietnamese population at the time was forced to learn and speak French. Even though the French are gone now a lot of French historical monuments remain. Most of the people of the now grand-parent generation speak French. The signs on the bus in Hanoi are still in French. However, French is loosing its popularity at the expense of English.
During the Vietnam War, the second language of the Vietnamese people was French. The Catholic religion appeared to be the second most common religion. Some French built paved roads and buildings were still present through out the country.
During the war: 1. French was the second language of Vietnam (Saigon was the called the Paris of the Orient). 2. Catholics were the second religion of Vietnam.
Vietnam. Because of French colonial rule, lots of people in Vietnam, particularly older people, speak French as a second language. It is a Francophone county.
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Spanish is the second most common "spoken" language. The second most common language is sign language.
The second most common language in America is Spanish.
During the war, French was a second language in South Vietnam. Many churches were Catholic with French speaking Vietnamese chaplains (to most GIs any religious man was a Chaplain, since that's what was in the US Army).
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French is a common second language that is spoken by educated people in Brazil. About 7 million people speak French there from time to time.
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Arabic is the second most common spoken language after Chinese. Hindi is number three, and English is the fourth most common.
Some French students learn German, but this is only the third-taught second language (English is by far the most common, then Spanish)