This study is devoted to the description of the ethnopsycholinguistic features of Vietnamese students, the study of their national and cultural specifics and language consciousness. Vietnamese language, like any other language, is associated with various forms of public consciousness that contain a large ethnic component. The authors study Vietnamese culture through the Vietnamese language consciousness, through the prism of the Vietnamese language, which, in turn, is considered as a form of fixing the culture and describe the verbal and non-verbal ways that the ethnocultural information is transmitted (language - consciousness - ethnos). The main task of the work was to describe the structure of the linguistic consciousness of Vietnamese students using the method of associative experiment, as it allows making the linguistic consciousness of native speakers visible. A large number of Vietnamese students at our university allowed us to conduct the associative experiment. For an associative experiment, words denoting emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, love, hate, fear, envy, jealousy and hope were taken. According to the ethics of the study, the principle of anonymity was observed during the experiment. As a result of the analysis of the questionnaires, some psycholinguistic features of the mentality of Vietnamese students were identified, which were confirmed by Vietnamese proverbs.