The Diplomat

More South Koreans Are Learning Vietnamese. Why?

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, ...
YourTango

I Ran From My Vietnamese Heritage — Until My Mom Revived The Childhood Ritual I’d Always Craved

Vietnamese is a useless language. Everybody in Canada speaks English. This is what I told my mom when she insisted that I take Vietnamese language lessons at school to honor our culture. I felt ...
Los Angeles Times

In Little Saigon, some Latinos are learning Vietnamese to get ahead

Nearly 25 years ago, Roberto Torres moved from the Mexican state of Guerrero to Orange County, landing a job as a dishwasher at a Vietnamese restaurant. Torres was part of a tide of immigration from ...
LAist

Teaching Vietnamese in OC classrooms brings challenges, rewards

Two flags hang in Van Vu’s classroom at Murdy Elementary School in Garden Grove: one red, white and blue, the other yellow with red stripes – the flag of the former South Vietnam that’s still widely ...
The Conversation

Personal histories shape how immigrant families transmit their home language to children

Thao-Nguyen Nina Le receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Pavel Trofimovich received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...