What is the second language in Laos? Thai?

Date: Jul 28, 2009

What is the second language in Laos? Thai?

Date: Jul 28, 2009

VIETNAMESE AND CHINESE ....WHAT DO YOU THINK????

Date: Jul 28, 2009

It is a French as a second Languages in laos, i don't consider Thai Language as a second language to Laos at all. Because Thai 's Alphabate and Sara almost the same as Laos.Different only Pronunciation that's all. and widely spoken right now is English especially teenagers,But French still dominated in all the Government Departments. Thirth and Fourth would be Vietnamese and Chinese.. anyway all of these Languages can be benificial to all Lao if they want to learn..

khonthakek · Guru

French and English are official foreign language in Laos, but probably will consider to use vietnamese to replace french and english very soon due to the increasing of vietnamese business and population in Laos.

Date: Jul 28, 2009

Maybe..... Thai-Esan Language as I heard many people talking like Esan people talk. And maybe we watching Thai TV dramas and Thai Game Shows everyday so that's why we can automatical speaking in Thai language. Thai language is not difficult to learn as we are very close to each other with cultures and languages.

Anyway, English and Chinese are also important and also Vietnamese.

Lao is a small country so we don't have enough things to fair trade with America, Europe or Japan so we only can trade through our neigborhood surround us likes Thailand, China and Vietnam

Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese-English is the most important to learn for next Lao generation

Date: Jul 28, 2009

official language : Lao

second language : French

then follows English

Date: Jul 28, 2009

khonthakek wrote:

French and English are official foreign language in Laos, but probably will consider to use vietnamese to replace french and english very soon due to the increasing of vietnamese business and population in Laos.

Ho ho ho ooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date: Jul 28, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe..... Thai-Esan Language as I heard many people talking like Esan people talk. And maybe we watching Thai TV dramas and Thai Game Shows everyday so that's why we can automatical speaking in Thai language. Thai language is not difficult to learn as we are very close to each other with cultures and languages.

Anyway, English and Chinese are also important and also Vietnamese.

Lao is a small country so we don't have enough things to fair trade with America, Europe or Japan so we only can trade through our neigborhood surround us likes Thailand, China and Vietnam

Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese-English is the most important to learn for next Lao generation

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Date: Jul 29, 2009

no choice we have to live our lives, no matter what languages u speak, more langauges u can speak is good for ur bizzzz!

Date: Jul 30, 2009

Any language can be a second language after Lao language, it depends on your interested to learn, and also part of working environments.

Nowadays, we have many foreign companies investing in Laos, such as: Korean, Chinese, Thai company and so on.

To make it’s easier to communicate with your foreign bosses we Lao workers have to know some of their languages.

For myself I speak 4 languages
1st Fluently Laos
2nd English as I learnt
3rd Thai as I live close to Thai border, I automatically speak
4th Khmer as I learnt to communicate with my family’s in law.

ban nok · Senior Member

As of 1998 the second most common language group was Austro-Asiatic languages at 24%. Chinese and Vietnamese though a tiny percentage made the chart. English and French too small a number of speakers to count. Interesting that many languages have less than 5000 speakers, they'll soon die out I'm afraid.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA

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