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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.

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