A delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has completed a working visit to Germany from July 15-18, aimed at promoting teaching and learning of Vietnamese language among Vietnamese people in the western country. During their stay, the education officials met with 40 teachers of the Vietnamese language who are currently working at different language centers for overseas Vietnamese in Germany. They introduced the trainers two new text books namely “Vietnamese For Fun” and “Viet Motherland”, the Vietnam News Agency said July 20. The mission also worked with the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany and the Cultural Association of Overseas Vietnamese to organize a workshop on teaching and learning Vietnamese language. Earlier, they had working sessions with the Vietnamese Consulate General in Frankfurt/Main and joined hands with the Overseas Vietnamese community in Dillingen, Bayern to put the new textbooks into use at language centers in the state. The need for teaching and learning of the Vietnamese language has become urgent among Vietnamese expatriates as parents want their children, who are born and grown up in Germany, to learn their mother tongue and not forget their origin. There are almost four million Vietnamese living, working and studying in 100 countries and territories worldwide, including 250,000 in Laos and Cambodia.
