Learning and teaching English in Vietnam

hi my dear Sculp
I thank you have nice people .

ambitious -Yemen

Got stuck in Bangkok as I had no entry visa for Vietnam. Seems impossible to get one on arrival. Tell us about your lovely country. The food is marvellous.

u c i'm viet 2
but have no clue about vietnamese
i was born here in america n my parents r
tryin 2 teach me. i been to viet this summer
it was great n all but the english that is being
spoken is horrible. maybe i'll learn how 2 read n write
in vietnamese someday n come back 2 viet. 2 teach

i totally agree with ambitious on the idea that the Vietnamese are very nice people.
I also agree with that America-born Vietnamese about the Pronunciation problem. must be focused on pronunciation more.

I personally think its all up to the person whether they want willing enough to go the extra miles of learning their language and culture. i'm viet as well, born in New Zealand, yet my accent is as great as a native vietnamese ... the difficulties I have are the vocabulary and all the jargons that they use! I agreed that the english accent in Viet is not as great...i guess its becaust they (n

I was born and grow up here in Vietnam. I agree with some of you that the accent is not very good but not all the learners. 10 years ago, the most prominent foreign language is Russian and now it is English. French is studied and well used by a lot of people here for nearly 100 years. Anyway, things are changing, and the accent is being improved. So I myself believe that the pronunciation proble

Hello/Xinjaou,

Please correct me on my Viet spelling ;o)

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I teach english here in Vietnam @ Viet My ( VATC) Classes run all year round. There are no terms. It was easy to get hired on here, but I hear the government want to make some changes in regards to what qualifications teachers need to work here. I don't know what the changes in qualifications are, but I heard that out of 752 foreign teachers here, only 2 would qualify under the new rule. I

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