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Day to be chosen to promote mother language among overseas Vietnamese

Some experts and officials have voiced their support for the date September 8 to be selected as the day in honour of the Vietnamese language in the overseas Vietnamese community.
Day to be chosen to promote mother language among overseas Vietnamese ảnh 1A Vietnamese language class for children in Ekaterinburg city of Russia (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Someexperts and officials have voiced their support for the date September 8 to beselected as the day in honour of the Vietnamese language in the overseasVietnamese community.

Speaking at a workshop heldin Hanoi on November 30, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Hieu, whois also Chairman of the Foreign Ministry’s State Committee for OverseasVietnamese Affairs, said to the 5.3 million Vietnamese living in over 130countries and territories, the Vietnamese language is a national pride and alsoa “solid fulcrum” for the country’s culture.

The maintenance and promotionof the language, which is a tool for spreading cultural values of the nation,is an important task holding practical, scientific, and human significance, henoted.

Other participants in theevent underlined the necessity for a day in honour of the Vietnamese languageso as to enhance the love for and pride in the mother language and encourageexpatriates to maintain and bring into play the homeland’s cultural identity.

Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam, formerdean of the faculty for Vietnamese studies and language at the University ofSocial Sciences and Humanity (Vietnam National University, Hanoi), said September 8 should be chosen as the day in honour of the language amongoverseas Vietnamese.

He explained that this wasthe day when the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (nowthe Socialist Republic of Vietnam) launched the “Binh dan hoc vu” (masseducation) campaign in 1945. On that day in 1962, then President Ho Chi Minhdelivered a speech on the Vietnamese language at the third congress of theVietnam Journalists’ Association.

Echoing the view, an officialfrom the Continuing Education Department of the Ministry of Education andTraining supported the date September 8 to be chosen for the purpose. He also recommendedorganising a competition on books and documents teaching the language foroverseas Vietnamese, and developing a language teaching website for theexpatriates.

Meanwhile, a representativeof the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism suggested commending theindividuals, organisations, and communities with substantial contributions to popularisingthe Vietnamese language abroad./.
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