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 | | After eighteen months of missionary work in Cochinchina, during which time de Rhodes learned the Cochinchinese-Tonkinese or Vietnamese language and familiarized himself with the religions, customs, and government of the country, he was recalled by his superiors to Macao, in preparation for a move in 1627 to Tonkin. |
 | | Because of his accomplishment in transcribing the language, which influenced the cultural development of Cochinchina and Tonkin in various significant ways, making it possible, for example, for the Vietnamese to interact more easily with European countries, using the Latin alphabet, 10 de Rhodes is even now remembered and highly esteemed in Vietnam. |
 | | De Rhodes was also familiar by this time with the methods of the religious and philosophical leaders in Cochinchina and Tonkin; he knew how heavily the Confucian apologists in particular relied on logical, systematic reasoning in their philosophical and theological disputations, and he knew how to confute their arguments, using the same technique. |
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