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 Could you please translate these to English??
"Vao day nghe bai nay di ban."

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 Hoc hanh de thanh cong?
vui ve huong cuoc ...



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How was the country Viet Nam get its name?


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umm... that is "how did ..."

    



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Phoenix
Việt Nam went through so many names before it became Việt Nam.

Check out this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam


Pobept K- If you write it correctly as we (Vietnamese people) do. It's 2 words not one word. K?


ong jon
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it comes from "the viet people of the south"...nam means south.. and viet nam is 2 words in vietnamese language 1 word in english


TLT
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there are alot of previous names before the name "việtnam"
such as: đại việt, đại ngu, âu lạc...
nói chung thì bạn vào trang web này chi tiết hơn cả tôi nói nữa
http://vi.wikipedia.com
search with the key word: việt nam ( nếu bạn đọc được tiếng việt)
vietnam ( if you can read in english)


ケチャッパー
by oe Dynasty
it was Nam Viet...
now reversed

in Chinese characters (used by Vietnam some years ago)

it is 越南

越 means pass over
南 means south

Chinese reading is

Yue4nan2

Korean one :
wolnam

Japanese

Etsunan


linda
Viet Nam is one word "Vietnam"





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