On 8 September, which is the Vietnamese Language Day (for Vietnamese overseas), ECIR member Van Tran attended the conference on Teaching Vietnamese Overseas. In the evening, Vietnam Television and the State Committee of Overseas Vietnamese organised a Gala to celebrate Vietnamese as the Mother Tongue, which was broadcast live on Vietnam Television (VTV2, VTV4) from 8-9.30pm. At this event, they awarded 5 people with the Title/award “Ambassador of Vietnamese” (Van was one of them) for their contribution to maintaining Vietnamese overseas. Van was interviewed by newspapers and media and talked about the CSU VietSpeech project related to home language maintenance.
Further details:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I00qaa4_dtY