After the Americans withdrew from South Vietnam in 1975, English began to lose importance and the number ofpeople studying English declined sharply, even though the government of Vietnam had never promulgated againstthe language (Do Huy Thinh, 2006). As noted by Shapiro (1995), the American Trade Embargo had isolatedVietnam from the rest of the world since countries feared political punishments from the US and dared notcooperate with Vietnam. People shifted to study Russian to move with the influx of Russian language and Russianculture via various forms of assistance from the former Soviet Union.
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