VOA慢速英語：越南為YouTube的十大海外市場之一

越南是YouTube的十大海外市場之一。

It has become a major test area in Asia.

在亞洲，它已成為一個主要的測試區(qū)域。

YouTube announced the ranking at a Ho Minh City event celebrating the one-year anniversary of Vietnam's YouTube channel.

在胡志明市慶祝YouTube在越南盛行一周年慶典的節(jié)目中，YouTube宣布了該排名。

Three young Vietnamese girls use a laptop and smart phones to go online at a cafe in Ha Noi, Viet Nam Wednesday, May 14, 2013. Close to a third of Vietnam’s 90 million people are online.

Vietnamwas not close to the top 10 two years ago. Since then, young people thrilled by technology make YouTube popular in Vietnam. The website reports that 400 hours worth of video are uploaded per minute.

兩年前，越南并不位居前十位。從那以后，年輕人對科技的興奮使YouTube在越南開始流行。該網(wǎng)站報道每分鐘會有總共時長400小時的視頻上傳。

Vietnam's YouTube channel has debuted with "120 percent year-on-year growth in terms of watch time," according to Phuong Anh Nguyen, a YouTube official.

越南YouTube頻道已經(jīng)報道“在觀看時間方面，同比增長120％。根據(jù)一位YouTube官員Phuong Anh Nguyen所說。

Vietnamese are watching YouTube at a big rate. Females are watching British singer Adele's "Hello." Foreign situationcomedies, like Australia's "Thank God You're Here," get 3 to 4 million views per episode in Vietnam, according to the country's newspaper, Tuoi Tre.

根據(jù)該國報紙，青年報報道：“越南人瀏覽YouTube的次數(shù)快速增長。女性們正在觀看英國歌手阿黛爾演唱的“你好”視頻。國外情景喜劇，如澳大利亞的‘謝天謝地你來啦’，在越南，每集有300到400萬的瀏覽量。

The southeast Asia country is also a YouTube test site. The company tries out services for emerging markets in Vietnam. An offline option of saving clips began in April. Visit the website www.chinavoa.com to get more information!

東南亞國家也是YouTube的一個測試網(wǎng)站。該公司為越南的新興市場提供試用服務。于四月份將開始推行短片保存的離線選擇。

How did Vietnam and YouTube become so friendly?

越南與YouTube怎么變得如此友好?

Inexpensive data plans is one reason. Vietnamese own smartphones rather than laptop computers. Vietnamese connect their smartphones to wireless Internet.

廉價的流量套餐是其中一個原因。越南人使用自己的智能手機而非筆記本電腦觀看視頻。他們將他們的智能手機連接無線進行上網(wǎng)。

They also expect WiFi everywhere. Vietnamese tend to save videos. Their country's videos are featured on the site. They favor YouTube over other video services like Vimeo, Hulu or Netflix.

他們還希望WiFi可以無處不在。越南傾向于將視頻保存下來。他們國家的一些特色視頻展示在該網(wǎng)站上。與其他視頻服務相比，如Vimeo、Hulu 或者Netflix，人們更加青睞YouTube。

I'm Anne Ball.

我是Anne Ball。

Lien Hoang reported on this story for VOANews.com. Jim Dresbach adapted this story for Learning English. Kathleen Struck was the editor.

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Words in This Story

upload – v. to move or copy a file or program from a computer or device to a usually larger computer or computer network

comedy– n. a play, movie, television program or novel that is meant to make people laugh

laptop– n. a small computer that is designed to be easily carried