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EPISODE · Feb 20, 2012 · 23 MIN

English In The East: Part Two

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012 · host BBC World Service

English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In part two, Jennifer Pak visits Hanoi in Vietnam to look at how the country, with a French and Russian colonial history, is now adopting English in preference to Mandarin, despite the growing neighbouring Chinese economy.

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