Given that English is an Indo-European language and Vietnamese is an Austro-Asiatic language, there is almost no relation between the two whatsoever.
Realistically speaking, I know that the Colonial French merely conquered Vietnam and, as they usually did, simply tried to replace it. However, I do know that the Chinese and English did develop a trading pidgin language in the 17th century, and I suspect the process would have been similar in Vietnam.
Given their relative positions at the time period, English would have been the dominant form, and its lexicon would have been used over Vietnamese grammar, much as it did with the Chinese.
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