Vietnamese classes for Vietnamese-Korean families launched
Tuesday, 03/04/2018 16:58 (GMT+7)
A class was launched by the Overseas Vietnamese Association at Seoul Woman Plaza in Seoul, Republic of Korea (RoK), on April 1st to help children of Vietnamese - Korean multicultural families to study the mother language and preserve the traditional culture of Vietnam.
The children at the opening ceremony (Photo: VNA)
The Vietnamese community in RoK has about 170,000 people living and working across the RoK, more than 60,000 of whom are married with Korean men. However, most children of Vietnamese - Korean multicultural families can’t speak Vietnamese language, meanwhile mothers desire that their children can speak Vietnamese language, to tighten maternal love as well as to help their children understand more about the culture of Vietnam.
To ameliorate this situation, the overseas Vietnamese association in RoK has decided to open a Vietnamese class for the children. In the coming time, such classes will be opened for a total 80 students aged 6-14. The classes will be held every Sunday afternoon and last from April to December every year.
The curriculum is compiled by RoK’s Ministry of Gender Equality specifically for educating children of Vietnamese - Korean multicultural families. Teachers of these classes are six Vietnamese students, who are Doctors and Masters and studying at RoK universities and having experience in teaching Vietnamese language for children.
Funds of the program are partly contributed by multicultural families and the Overseas Vietnamese Association in RoK, and partly sponsored by the Asian Development Fund. According to the plan, the Overseas Vietnamese Association in RoK will open additional classes across provinces and cities in
RoK.
Particularly, the children entering Vietnamese classes will be followed through to adulthood. The association will continue to cooperate with the Asian Development Fund to support students after high school graduation, with further training in Vietnamese language and granting scholarships for students studying abroad in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese Embassy in RoK hoped that the second generation Vietnamese will become a bridge, contributing to the development of bilateral relations in the future, and expected that this classroom model will be replicated throughout RoK so that all children of multicultural families can have the chance to study their mother tongue./.
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