Learning Vietnamese is Hard

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I’ve always loved learning languages that are not my native English. I started with Spanish in high school, and then moved to Ojibwe in college, and passed my proficiency exams, but I would not claim fluency by any metric.

I’ve dabbled in Arabic, Russian, Japanese and Korean and grew up around a fair number of German speakers. I’ve put forth some seriou…