The Embassies of Vietnam in Romania and Hungary recently held activities to response to the Day to Honor the Vietnamese Language in the Overseas Vietnamese Community (September 8).

Nguyen Hong Lien, Vice President of Women's Club, Vietnamese language teacher speaks at the event. Photo: Embassy of Vietnam in Romania

The Embassy of Vietnam and the Vietnamese Association in Romania have jointly organized an exhibition featuring photos and documents on the teaching and learning of Vietnamese in Romania, with many poems and handwriting made by the students themselves. After the exhibition was the launching ceremony of "Honoring the Vietnamese language in the Vietnamese Community in Romania" event.

Speaking at the ceremony, Nguyen Hong Lien, vice president of the Women's Club, Vietnamese class teacher briefly informed the delegates about the process of teaching and learning Vietnamese in the Vietnamese community in Romania from 1999 to the present. In spite of many difficulties and challenges, generations of children born and raised in the area continue to preserve and promote their mother tongue, preserving Vietnamese cultural roots.

Nguyen Van Toi, chairman of the Business Association, former president of the Vietnamese Association in Romania spoke highly of the Government's project to honor the Vietnamese language, emphasizing the demand for learning Vietnamese in the Vietnamese community in Romania. The Vietnamese language teaching and learning movement need to continue to receive the attention and support of the Embassy, ​​the Vietnamese Association as well as the entire Vietnamese Community in Romania in the coming time.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Romania Do Duc Thanh says the event is aimed at raising awareness of Vietnamese expats about their mother tongue and honoring the values of the Vietnamese language. Photo: Embassy of Vietnam in Romania

Ambassador Do Duc Thanh affirmed that the embassy will pay great attention to and create favorable conditions for teaching and learning Vietnamese in the locality and research, work with relevant domestic agencies, coordinate with Vietnamese associations in the host country, find out the appropriate organization, teaching methods, and curriculum to jointly promote this cause.

The diplomat expressed his hope that Vietnamese language honoring activities will be maintained regularly, not just wrapped up in one day on September 8, and believes that teaching and learning Vietnamese in the Vietnamese community in Romania will reap more results in the future.

He also proposed a preliminary review for praise and commendation, especially seeking envoys of Vietnamese abroad to promote the Vietnamese language.

Also within the framework of the ceremony, Ambassador Do Duc Thanh presented Vietnamese textbooks for foreigners and learning materials to the representative of the Vietnamese community in Romania.

The young generation, born and raised in Romania, attended the ceremony. Photo: Embassy of Vietnam in Romania

Vietnamese Ambassador to Hungary Nguyen Thi Bich Thao and other embassy staff recently attended the opening ceremony of a Vietnamese Language Center in Budapest.

Speaking at the ceremony, Ambassador Thao expressed her delight at the achievements of the students at the center in learning Vietnamese in the past year and appreciated the love and desire to preserve the Vietnamese language, the care and enthusiasm of the teachers and the community and especially the companionship of the parents.

This is an important foundation contributing to the strong development of Vietnamese language teaching and learning in Hungary over the past 10 years, from a classroom with a few students now becoming a center with two direct teaching facilities in Asia Trade Center and Thang Long Trade Center, and an online teaching program. Hundreds of students completed Vietnamese courses and this school year started with over 50 students.

The opening ceremony of the Vietnamese Language Center in Budapest is even more meaningful as it is the first event to respond to the Day to Honor the Vietnamese Language in Hungary.

Vietnamese Language Center in Budapest, Hungary opens the school year 2022-2023. Photo: baoquocte.vn

During this school year, the Center will organize 7 classes for more than 50 students of different ages. Photo: baoquocte.vn

There are more than 5.3 million Vietnamese overseas who live in over 130 countries and territories across the globe.

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on August 3 approved the project “Honoring the Vietnamese language in the overseas community in the period of 2023-2030.”

September 8 was chosen as it coincides with the anniversary of the date the provisional government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam launched a campaign to eradicate illiteracy in 1945. It also honors President Ho Chi Minh’s call on September 8, 1962, to preserve, respect, and popularize the mother tongue.

The project encourages and honors individuals and organizations that have made active contributions to preserving and spreading the language in the overseas Vietnamese community, maintaining the use of Vietnamese in Vietnamese families abroad in daily activities, and introducing the language to the local people of the host countries.

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