GARLAND, Texas — At Hickman Elementary School in Garland, culture is woven into daily lessons. From classroom greetings in Vietnamese to science lessons in English, students in the school’s Vietnamese ...

Two Ivy League universities are offering beginning and intermediate Vietnamese courses for the first time in their history. About the courses: Brown University’s beginning and intermediate Vietnamese ...

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 ...

The Westminster school system in California’s Orange County has opened the state’s first English-Vietnamese dual-language-immersion program. Kindergarten students at DeMille Elementary School will be ...

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 ...

Home to more than 500 Vietnamese-language books, the Vietnamese Bookcase at Phat Tich Pagoda in Vientiane has become a ...

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 ...

Like Chinese, the Vietnamese language is tonal; that is, the meaning of words is changed by inflection. Vietnam used the Chinese writing system and Nom, a Vietnamese script derived from the Chinese ...

The Global Network for Teaching Vietnamese Language and Culture will be launched on September 29, building a map of Vietnamese classes around the ...

According to my local library system the Vietnamese language didn't exist, a frustratingly empty space between Urdu and Welsh in the stacks. I scoured Vietnamese restaurants in search of a tutor, and ...

One of the first projects on the new slate is a remake of the Indian survival drama 'Trapped.' By Gregg Kilday Freelance Contributor Ivanhoe Pictures, a division of the Los Angeles-based production ...