Vietnam Net recently reported on Vietnam's goal of having 100% of primary school students studying English from the 3rd grade onward by 2020. The drive to learn English among Vietnamese is strong and their proficiency continues to improve. A recent … [Read more...]
Traveling Viet Nam
Nice travel cheat sheet from the folks at WanderShare. … [Read more...]
The Drive to Learn English in Vietnam
BBC News Magazine has an interesting article, "Is English or Mandarin the Language of the Future". About two-thirds through the article, however, are a few paragraphs that give perspective on the popularity of English in Vietnam: That part quoted … [Read more...]
Unikey
Need to type Vietnamese on your PC? Here is some basic sofware that will help. Download the software at their site - Unikey . Once installed, you can type the necessary letters / accent marks by following the base letter with a number. The … [Read more...]
Online Vietnamese Keyboard
If you are learning Vietnamese and want a quick way to type some Vietnamese on your computer, you may find VNKeys a helpful spot. This site will also do text encoding conversions, but I don't find it as user friendly for that as the site here. Try … [Read more...]
Vietnamese Text Conversions
If you ever need to do much in the way of copying and pasting Vietnamese text, this is a site that you may find extremely helpful. Note - this is not for English to Vietnamese translations, but rather for converting the encoding of a given text that … [Read more...]
Vietnamese Dictionary
Lac Viet is a growing company with various interests related to computing. They have a great dictionary which you can purchase at their site here. Unfortunately if you don't read Vietnamese their site won't help much because the English version is … [Read more...]
