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    Sapa - lost in translation

    By Mark Bowyer / Last updated 09 Jun 2014
    On my last visit to Sapa, I set myself the modest goal of learning a couple of words of the indigenous Hmong language - "hello" and "how are you". I got chatting with some local Hmong sellers in the downtown square. We were speaking in Vietnamese at the time. This is how the lesson worked out.
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