Twelve years ago, when hearing children of Vietnamese speaking unclear Vietnamese when shopping with their parents in the Asian Center of Budapest (Hungary), Mr. Tuan and his wife came up with the idea of teaching Vietnamese to these children.

September 8 will become an annual day for honouring the Vietnamese language under a decision signed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the approval of a project to honour it among the Vietnamese community abroad in the 2023-2030 period.

A set of Vietnamese language teaching textbooks have been launched at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev.

A special publication in Vietnamese language will be launched in Busan city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on September 1, authorities of the city announced on August 31.

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With Vietnam-Republic of Korea relations having been tightened over recent years, demand for studying Korean in Vietnam and vice-versa has increased accordingly. 

A course providing free Vietnamese, Lao, and English language classes for Vietnamese expatriates in Laos opened at the Phat Tich Pagoda in the Lao capital Vientiane on December 22.

A Vietnamese language course for the 2020-2021 academic year was recently opened for children of Vietnamese people in the North Moravia region of the Czech Republic.

The Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a contest on compiling Vietnamese-language books and documents for overseas Vietnamese, at a ceremony in Hanoi on September 16.

Vietnamese is a challenging language for most foreigners, and for a visually-impaired person like Aun Apichit Mingwongtham from Thailand, the challenge was even greater.

UK Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward has recently made a clip in Vietnamese language, thanking Vietnam for its support for British citizens and tourists amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

For Vietnamese people living and working abroad, just listening to Vietnamese in the foreign land, the nostalgia for their homeland becomes more earnest. 

Can Van Kiet and Can Anh Claudine have spent over 20 years teaching Vietnamese to both Vietnamese and French nationals, with the desire to help overseas Vietnamese to preserve their homeland’s language. 

The defunct Thanh Chiem Palace (1602-1883) is seen as a cradle of romanised Vietnamese script, and the place was linked with Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) – the founder of the modern writing system of the Vietnamese language

Vietnamese language and culture have been officially included in the teaching programme of Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3 in France’s Occitanie region as part of cooperation between the university and the Vietnam National University – Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi University of Culture on Wednesday organised a ceremony to welcome 96 Korean students who will attend a Vietnamese language and culture course at the university.

As the country is celebrating the 250th birthday of legendary Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du, Professor Phong Le, Chairman of Vietnam’s Association for Kieu study granted an interview to Nhan Dan Monthly to share his thoughts on the great poet

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VietNamNet Bridge – Inspectors from the HCM City Department of Health recently appeared without notice at the Apollo Clinic in District 1 to inspect operations. The clinic was reported to be using a team of unqualified Chinese doctors.