« Kem », « sôcôla », « actisô », « sơ mi », « cà ra vát », « cao su », « buýt », « ampli », « xăng », « xi măng », etc.. These Vietnamese words sound more or less French ? A part of vocabulary of the Vietnamese language comes from French which marked Vietnam from its presence by the French colonization for about a century (XVIII-XIX) in Indochina in general and in Vietnam in particular. Today, the colonial regime raise from history books but these French traces persist still in actual linguistic uses in Vietnam. However, these sociolinguistic resources, opening a rich potential for linguistic and cultural material, are ignored in teaching French to Vietnamese learners. In order to verify the importance of these elements, particularly through their social perception by the Vietnamese currently, a sociolinguistic survey was conducted in the field. Didactic proposals then presented permit to confirm that the highlighting of these French or French origin resources in Vietnam is a facilitator of appropriation of French in this country and opens to a dynamic multilingual didactic
