This video is all about the Vietnamese language! Special thanks to Nguyễn Văn Phi for his Northern Vietnamese samples, and Tô Lê Nam for his additional Southern Vietnamese samples.

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00:00 General info about Vietnamese
00:46 History of Vietnamese
03:41 French loanwords in Vietnamese
04:26 Vietnamese phonology - general
05:27 Vietnamese phonology - tones
06:26 Vietnamese grammar
12:24 Differences between northern and southern Vietnamese
14:43 Closing comments
15:09 The Question of the Day