Overseas Vietnamese in Laos respond to Day for Honouring Vietnamese Language

Vietnamese Consul General in Luang Prabang province Kieu Thi Hang Phuc (in traditional long address) presents gifts to disadvantaged students in Laos’ Oudomxay province. (Photo: VNA)

The event attracted a large number of overseas Vietnamese living in the locality.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Vietnamese Consul General in Luang Prabang province Kieu Thi Hang Phuc said the Day for honouring the Vietnamese language aims to enhance the overseas Vietnamese community’s awareness of the Vietnamese language’s beauty and value, while honouring individuals and organizations that make positive contributions to keeping it as a language for communicating among the Vietnamese families abroad and spreading it to foreigners.

She underlined the need for Vietnamese associations in northern provinces of Laos to coordinate with local authorities to introduce the Vietnamese language into the curricula in educational establishments with large numbers of Vietnamese students, as well as to support universities and research institutes that have a Vietnamese language department towards making Vietnamese an official foreign language subject along with other languages in Lao schools.

The Consul General also proposed diversifying methods to promote the teaching and learning of Vietnamese, including cultural activities such as poem composing or story telling contests.

On the occasion of the beginning of the new school-year, the Consulate General of Vietnam in Luang Prabang presented gifts of Vietnamese Ministry of Defence and the Consulate General to disadvantaged students in the locality./.