Nearly 565 candidates of different age groups took the second Vietnamese language proficiency exam at the Japanese College for Foreign Languages in Tokyo, Japan, on June 24th, a surge from the previous exam which drew 379 candidates.

A Vietnamese language class opened at the Embassy of Vietnam in Algeria’s capital city of Algiers on May 12, meeting the demand to learn the language and explore Vietnamese culture of students in Algiers and neighboring localities.

It opened by showing that 800 Koreans took the language proficiency test Vietnamese Oral Proficiency Interview in 2017, jumping by 15 percent from 2016. Meanwhile, a Vietnamese language course at the Seoul-based online language education Siwon School saw a 4-percent increase in the number of students and an 11-percent increase in sales every month since it was first launched in November 2016. The article said the number of RoK people learning Vietnamese is not huge, but its growth is not a coincidence, regarding the context of the two countries fortifying their ties, particularly in trade. RoK’s exports to Vietnam rose by 46.3 percent last year, and more than doubled over the last three years. Vietnam is now expected to become RoK’s second largest export market by 2020. At the end of 2017, about 5,500 RoK firms operated in Vietnam. This makes the RoK the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam, with total direct investment reaching a record-high 7.4 billion USD in the first 11 months of 2017. The article noted Vietnam’s rapidly growing economy played an important role in the economic ties growth. It said Samsung is taking the lead of RoK investment in Vietnam, followed by other firms such as Lotte and CJ. Smaller players have also targeted the Vietnamese market. The Seoul-based general cooking and food company Ourhome has recently begun to provide Vietnamese language courses for its employees ahead of its expansion to the country. By the end of 2017, only 4.9 percent of high school students in RoK decided to take Vietnamese as a second language test for their university entrance exam, lagging behind Chinese and Japanese at 5.4 percent and 8.1 percent, respectively. However, the article said the situation might change soon./.

They are diplomats, lecturers, entrepreneurs, consultants, fresh graduate looking for job opportunity in Vietnam. From different part of the world, they flocked to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Vietnamese language faculty in Korea.

(VNF) - The Palestinian Ambassador to Vietnam is constantly searching for the unique features of the Vietnamese language although he has pursued this language for more than 37 years.

A new school year ceremony has been held at the Vietnamese language class in Kiev, Ukraine, aiming to preserve national cultural values.

(VNF) – He is the one who has been learning Vietnamese in the last five decades and has taught the language to nearly 3,000 Korean students in over 30 years. He is also the author of the first-ever Vietnamese-Korean dictionary which contains 60,000 words. Who is he?

Solutions to improve the teaching and learning of Vietnamese language among overseas Vietnamese people were proposed at a seminar in Hanoi on August 22.

Beginning next year, Vietnamese will officially be listed as a foreign language available to Taiwanese students in grades 3-12, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Ho Chi Minh City has announced.