At the end of summer my family and those of some of my high school friends gathered on the Mediterranean coast. It had been a while since our children met and spoke together in Vietnamese. It is not ...

Last month I was invited to a dinner in France. It was a traditional meal to finish the Lunar New Year ceremony at a Vietnamese family's house. It was my first invitation to a meal like this since I ...

When Dannie Dinh moved to the United States at age 13 with her family, she refrained from speaking in her native language even though Texas had a large Vietnamese community. Newly-arrived immigrants ...

Two Garden Grove high schools will offer foreign-language courses in Vietnamese starting in September, joining the few public schools in the state that teach the language as an elective. Students of ...

School girls hold Vietnamese and South Korean flags while waiting for arrival of South Korean President Moon Jae-in before a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam (March 23, ...

Van Lang School Enrollment: 630, a 20 percent increase since 2006-7. The school is using 23 of Portland Community College's classrooms in Southeast Portland with an average class size of 27. Budget: ...

MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- The Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., has junked its Vietnamese language program, focusing its resources instead on Arabic. In 1969, the school trained ...

Inside the modest lobby of the Nguoi Viet Daily News hangs four framed newspaper clippings. The headlines tell of a war’s toll. “100,000 refugees in southeast Asia picked up by U.S. Air Force,” one ...

The Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam has once again expressed concerns that the quality of foreign language instruction in the country is preventing English proficiency goals from being ...