Originally Posted by jimbo99
This is even more impressive when you consider that the UK is not the natural choice for many VN - Australia, Canada, US etc providing choices which are cheaper or where there are more family ties.
Or France?
For a bit of a laugh...
A little bit off topic, but one of my friends (white) learned French in high school from a Vietnamese teacher. On their class trip to France, they got laughed and constantly insulted by the Parisians because they had a "peasant" Vietnamese accent in their French.
I guess it's the similar to learning English from Jackie Chan.