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. ► Watch my video about VIETNAM (the country): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjId4gJ8iY ► Support Langfocus on Patreon: https://patreon.com/langfocus. Special thanks to the following patrons: AmateurTextualCriticism Auguste Fields Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C CFitz17 Clark Roth Colin Milner Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy J Choi Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kenny Kirk Kirkpatrick Michael Arbagi Michael Cuomo Mody Neil Sills Nobbi Lampe-Strang Paul Falstad Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Victoria Goh Vincent David Walter Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Yuko Sunda 19jks94 Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Powell Adam Vanderpluym Al Fung Alan Corley Alana Kalinowski Aleksei Alen Alex McKenzie Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alvin Quiñones Andrew Woods Anthony Kinread Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Arnoud Hoorn Ashley Dierolf Avital Levant Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Brent Warner Brian Begnoche Bruce Stark Chelsea Boudreau chris brown Christian Langreiter Christopher Lowell Connor Burns contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Daniel Young Darek David Eggleston David LeCount Dean Cary Debbie Diana Fulger Diane Young DickyBoa Dieter Raber digitalmobius Dina Trageser divad Divadrax Don Ross Donald Tilley Drew Gatewood Dulta Tracey Ed B Ed Heard Edward Wilson Elaine Salmon Eren Parla Eric Loewenthal Fabio Martini fatimahl Fawad Quraishi G Bot Grace Wagner Gregory Garecki Guillaume Brodar Harry Kek Helena Henri Saussure Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda Jack Jackson James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR Jay Bernard Jaye Ferrone Jens Aksel Takle Jesús Horacio Báez Ávila Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner Joe Dubya Johannes John E. McLaughlin John Flanagan John Gavin John Hyaduck John Lloyd Josh Rotenberg Julie Sriken Jón Elíasson Kate MacDonald Kimball Pierce kingvaeonic Kirk Vistain Kit Marcos Konrad Krzysztof Dobrzanski KW Lance Bedasie Laura Morland Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lincoln Hutton Lissette Talledo Louie dela Fuente Luke Jensen m maiku Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Margrét Mark Mark Bonneaux Mark Judge Mark Kemp Mark Rogers Markzipan Martin Blackwell Matthew Etter Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Regal Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Montassar Ghrairi Mário Pegado Naama and Geoff Shang Nadia B. Nicholas Gentry Nicholas Paul Nicolas Elsishans Nicole Tovar Niro noxialisrex Oleksandr Ivanov Ondra Oto Kohulák Patrick smith Patriot Nurse Paul Flynn Paul Shutler Pauline Pavon Paulla Fetzek Peter Andersson Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar piero Pudim de Cana Raymond Thomas Renato Paroni de Castro RetroSteamKnight Richard Kelly Robert Brockway Robert Williams Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ron McKinnon Ronald Brady Saffo Papantonopoulou Sergio Pascalin Sheila Perryman Sierra Rooney Sigbjørn Nerland Simon Blanchet Simon Jaglom sinastral SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Steven Severance Suzanne Jacobs Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers Tim Hopmann tommy dahill Tony DeSantis Ty Ovendale Vinicius Marchezini Vitor Waltraud Seemann Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal yasmine jaafar Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Zachary Root zhangyimo Éric Martin Вайзефакнот 洋平 木嶋 The following images are used under Creative Commons Share-Alike license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chu_nom.svg. Author: Tomchen 1989. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ph%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_ng%E1%BB%AF_ti%E1%BA%BFng_Vi%E1%BB%87t.png. Author: Hoangfinter123. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%B1%89%E6%9C%9D%E8%A1%8C%E6%94%BF%E5%8C%BA%E5%88%92(%E7%B9%81).png. Author: 玖巧仔. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_French_Indochina_expansion.svg. Author: Milenioscuro. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_T%C4%A9nh_H%E1%BA%A3i_qu%C3%A2n_and_early_years_of_Ng%C3%B4_dynasty.png. Author: TRMC. Still images which incorporate the above images are available for use under the same CC SA license. 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