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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese citizens fled their country after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when the communist-controlled North took over the American-aided South. The U.S. government accepted ...

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 ...

The campus is working to close a gap between what foreign languages it offers and those increasingly in demand by students in a melting-pot California. In recent years, UC Davis has rolled out courses ...

Roland Skinner just returned from a business trip to the Far East. He travels to Viet Nam three times a year to represent a Biloxi importer. Skinner said "I review his contracts when he gets into a ...

With more than 40,000 Vietnamese nationals living and working in the country, teaching Vietnamese to younger generations is essential to maintaining links with their national roots.

Garden Grove Unified is increasing its language offerings and outlining a path to creating a K-6 dual language immersion school by 2016-17 – one advocates hope will be the first Vietnamese/English ...

Student interest in Vietnamese language programs at two Garden Grove high schools has been below expectations, forcing school officials to scramble to save classes added to the curriculum after years ...

Advance Beauty College’s Nguyen: important for second generation “to be at least bilingual” California State University, Fullerton, plans to start a program that will offer business courses, ...

Teacher Lien Nguyen got up in front of a class of 3-year-olds and gave a lesson typical of a preschool: Where are your eyes, nose and hair? But Nguyen did something not heard in most classrooms: She ...

Minh-Duc Nguyen has helped orchestrate English-as-a-second-language classes, as well as Vietnamese-as-a-second language classes. But she has discovered that it is the computer-as-a-second language ...

In response to a growing number of Arabic- and Vietnamese-speaking students in The City's public schools, the San Francisco Unified School District is considering offering classes in those languages ...