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hardly any of its people want to learn French. The lingua franca of world trade, in Vietnam as
elsewhere, is English. At every level of Vietnam's educational system, students learning
English outnumber those studying French roughly 10 to .1. Not even the most ardent
Francophiles see much hope of reversing that ratio. "We are not crazy enough to think French
can replace
English," concedes Alain Fleury, the French embassy's cultural counsellor. France's first
priority in Vietnam is only to keep the language from becoming extinct.
22. It is inferred from the passage that...................
a) French has fallen into disuse in Vietnam.
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