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Vietnamese among the most spoken languages in Australia
Updated: 19:17, 24/07/2022
Vietnamese ranked third among the top languages used at home in Australia, other than English, according to the latest census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The census showed that Mandarin continues to be the most common language other than English with 685,274 people using Mandarin at home. This is followed by Arabic (367,159 people), Vietnamese (320,758 people), and Cantonese (295,281 people). The number of people speaking Vietnamese at home increased by 43,000 as compared to 2016.
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In 2016, with 277,400 users at home, Vietnamese was the fourth most common language in Australia (excluding English).
There are currently 429 languages spoken in Australia, including 183 indigenous ones.
The consensus also revealed that in August 2021, out of nearly 25.5 million people in Australia, 334,785 confirmed their Vietnamese origin.
A Vietnamese film week took place in the Tulio Febres Cordero culture centre in Mérida state, Venezuela from July 15-20.
A ceremony to see off the Vietnamese delegation to the 11th ASEAN Para Games was held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 20.
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- On the morning of July 17, at the provincial Convention Center, the
provincial Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation launched the
"Red Journey" programme in 2022 and the blood donation festival with
the message "Red blood drops of love". After 10 years of responding
to the cross-Vietnam blood donation campaign, the awareness of the blood donation
movement to save lives among people of all strata in the province has changed
positively.
A Vietnamese student in Japan was awarded a certificate of merit for saving the life of a man who fainted in a bathroom by summoning emergency assistance.
The Centre for Tropical Diseases of Bach Mai Hospital recently saved the life of a 32-year-old female Nigerian patient with severe malaria, who had been hospitalised in a critical condition.
Source: VNA
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