How popular is the French language in Vietnam today?

There are still people studying French in Vietnam nowadays, but only a few. Back when I was in secondary and high school, there are classes specialized in teaching students French (I am 27 now). read more

French became the governing language of French Indochina, which included present-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Many Vietnamese began learning French, which replaced the native Vietnamese and royal court Chinese languages and eventually the Vietnamese language's official script was in the Latin alphabet. read more

French is a foreign language in contemporary Vietnam, it plays no special role, it is not spoken natively by Vietnamese in Vietnam, it is a school subject that is learned by some students as a foreign language, but probably far more learn English than French. Ethnologue does not even mention French among the languages spoken in Vietnam. read more