Hanoi (VNA) - The Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnameseheld a ceremony on June 24 to introduce a new Vietnamese textbook entitled “Xin Chao Viet Nam” designed for overseas Vietnameseand foreigners who wish to learn the Vietnamese language.
The textbook was written by Pham Thi Huong, director ofHannaspeak Training JSC and is published under the sponsorship of the Ntea Group.
It comprises 20 lessons on different topics via Hanna’s stories regardingfamily, occupation, the weather, going to hospital, shopping, traveling, and others.
“Learning and teaching Vietnamese is now an inevitable trend as there are 4.5 to 5 million Vietnamese who are living, working and studying inmore than 100 countries and territories around the world. Moreover, Vietnam is boosting integrationand more foreigners wish to learn about Vietnamese culture, understand theVietnamese language, and speak Vietnamese,” said Ambassador Nguyen Phu Binh,chairman of the Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese.
The Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese will promote and introduce the new textbook to the Vietnamese community abroad, Binh said,expressing his belief that more Vietnamese learning programmes will be developed to meet the needs of youngVietnamese people abroad as well as foreigners living in Vietnam./.