This Cambodian kid living on a farm in the jungle speaks better English than any Vietnamese kid.
She goes to a local school and learns English from a Cambodian teacher. Cambodians are behind Vietnamese on every education metric yet I was shocked to hear people in the jungles speaking better English than university graduates in Vietnam. (Ngoc our foreign correspondent was a law student and in a top university in Hanoi yet her English sounded trash compared to this fruit selling kid in the outback of Cambodia on a dusty road in the middle of nowhere selling fruit for pennies).
The English schools in Vietnam mainly rely on under qualified teachers from overseas who can't even speak Vietnamese. So decades later the average Vietnamese speaks absolutely rubbish English despite paying a king's ransom in tuition fees. Local teachers would be better value for money but a scandal years ago scared the locals off using local teachers.
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