The daughter of a couple who immigrated from Vietnam in the 1980s, Dao Quynh Trang, has graduated from a Russian high school in the province of Pskov with the highest grades.

Trang was the only student among her classmates who graduated with honours this year, said the Russian Ministry of Education. 

In a conversation with Russian National Television that was broadcast throughout the country, Trang revealed that she achieved the high results thanks to the help of her teachers, family, friends and a lot of luck.

Some of the Russian sounds were especially difficult for her at first, noted Trang, and she had to practice very hard, until she learned how to pronounce them correctly.

Trang now speaks Vietnamese and Russian fluently. She said that she has two homelands — Vietnam and Russia, and she dreams of returning to her native country in Southeast Asia one day.

VOV