Japanese language in Vietnam’s primary schools

[Viet]

Wednesday, 03/02/2016, 12:15

VOV.VN -The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) have agreed on the teaching of the Japanese language in Vietnam’s primary and secondary schools.

Accordingly, the teaching of Japanese will be piloted in three primary schools in Hanoi as from the 2016-2017 school year . The two sides will base on teaching results to expand Japanese classes to schools in other provinces and cities.





Japanese will be considered the first foreign language for students from thirdgrade within the framework of Vietnam’s National Foreign Languages Project 2020.

The Embassy said that Vietnam is the first Southeast Asian country to pilot the project.Currently, there are 46,000 students in Vietnam learning Japanese.

 

[vtnsx]

i prefer english. I hate learning characters.

 

[Aepsilons]

Wednesday, 03/02/2016, 12:15

VOV.VN -The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) have agreed on the teaching of the Japanese language in Vietnam’s primary and secondary schools.

Accordingly, the teaching of Japanese will be piloted in three primary schools in Hanoi as from the 2016-2017 school year . The two sides will base on teaching results to expand Japanese classes to schools in other provinces and cities.





Japanese will be considered the first foreign language for students from thirdgrade within the framework of Vietnam’s National Foreign Languages Project 2020.

The Embassy said that Vietnam is the first Southeast Asian country to pilot the project.Currently, there are 46,000 students in Vietnam learning Japanese.

How about this?

@Viet --- the tones are hard!

 

[Viet]

How about this?

@Viet --- the tones are hard!

speaking vietnamese is very challenging. 5 tones. not easy for foreigners at all. an exile viet group in America conducted recently an interview with the US embassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius. it reveals a bit how the US sees Vietnam and other nations in the region. he speaks a little bit vietnamese.

 

[AViet]

Should be English and Chinese only. Other languages can be learned as professional at universities.

 

[Viet]

Should be English and Chinese only. Other languages can be learned as professional at universities.

will you send your kids learning chinese language or mandarin?

not easy decision, isn´t it? english yes, chinese no, or at least not yet now, says the education ministry, because the latter is unpopular among the public due to tension between the two countries. but if you like, you can send your kids to a private school teaching Chinese.

 

[Aepsilons]

will you send your kids learning chinese language or mandarin?

not easy decision, isn´t it? english yes, chinese no, or at least not yet now, says the education ministry, because the latter is unpopular among the public due to tension between the two countries. but if you like, you can send your kids to a private school teaching Chinese.

Learning Japanese in Vietnamese public schools will be necessary if they prefer to study abroad in Japan. But i do agree with @AViet -- it might be wiser to adopt English (international lingua franca) and Mandarin.

 

[Viet]

Learning Japanese in Vietnamese public schools will be necessary if they prefer to study abroad in Japan. But i do agree with @AViet -- it might be wiser to adopt English (international lingua franca) and Mandarin.

Surely learning mandarin would be the natural choice. But since the latest chinese provocation with the oil rig, the public sentiment has changed: everything except chinese. So making sense or not, people rather learn japanese, korean or spanish than mandarin.

 

[Wolfwind]

How about English? I think English and Chinese is probably more useful.

 

[AViet]

will you send your kids learning chinese language or mandarin?

not easy decision, isn´t it? english yes, chinese no, or at least not yet now, says the education ministry, because the latter is unpopular among the public due to tension between the two countries. but if you like, you can send your kids to a private school teaching Chinese.

Viet, you are living in Germany, so you do not know the reality in Vietnam. You can only read vnexpress.net or similar websites, which have had clear anti-China stand for years, or sometimes back to Vietnam in short-time and hear people complaining. Pro-China comments from readers on these websites will always be removed.

Despite the recent conflicts and all the crazies on media, Chinese influences in Vietnam have been increased year-by-year. This year, for the first time, in many living quarters in Hanoi, people hang Chinese lanterns for celebrating Tết (I saw in one quarter near Hoang Hoa Tham street). Now on the highway 1A from Hanoi to the south or to the north, which I have to travel every week, almost all heavy trucks you see are Chinese (Sinotruck, CTMTC, TMT etc.). Huyndai heavy trucks are disappearing. A verifiable fact is that imports from China increases year-by-year, not decrease, hence the ever increasing deficit.

Even if you hear some people badmouthing China and Chinese products, it does not guarantee that they will not buy Chinese or ready to fight China in their real life. Every people says Chinese products are bad, but keep buying them.

In this forum, my official stand is pro-China. But in 2014, I was also the one who contributed the most to an anti-China fund in my organization (at my level of management). Most other people did not care.

I definitely send my child to learn Chinese from her yearly age, even more than English and send her to study in either China or Japan at university level when she grow up. I will not spend a dollar for her to study in the US, unless she get scholarship to study in top-notch ones, like Harvard or MIT.

Do not trust the media 100%, whether in the West or in Vietnam now. Most of the news are either fake or exaggerated to get as many readers as possible.

 

[Viet]

Viet, you are living in Germany, so you do not know the reality in Vietnam. You can only read vnexpress.net or similar websites, which have had clear anti-China stand for years, or sometimes back to Vietnam in short-time and hear people complaining. Pro-China comments from readers on these websites will always be removed.

I grew up, was living long enough in VN so know what is up there. besides, I visit my relatives often. so pls don´t educate me. I travelled to more countries in the world than probably most of posters here ever experience in their lives.

no. you are wrong. I read different media to hear their voices, including propaganda pieces from xinhua to global times, from foxnews to cnn. I can´t tell about the webmasters on certain forums when and what rules apply when posts removed.

do you know the rules of this forum?

Despite the recent conflicts and all the crazies on media, Chinese influences in Vietnam have been increased year-by-year. This year, for the first time, in many living quarters in Hanoi, people hang Chinese lanterns for celebrating Tết (I saw in one quarter near Hoang Hoa Tham street). Now on the highway 1A from Hanoi to the south or to the north, which I have to travel every week, almost all heavy trucks you see are Chinese (Sinotruck, CTMTC, TMT etc.). Huyndai heavy trucks are disappearing. A verifiable fact is that imports from China increases year-by-year, not decrease, hence the ever increasing deficit.

Even if you hear some people badmouthing China and Chinese products, it does not guarantee that they will not buy Chinese or ready to fight China in their real life. Every people says Chinese products are bad, but keep buying them.

In this forum, my official stand is pro-China. But in 2014, I was also the one who contributed the most to an anti-China fund in my organization (at my level of management). Most other people did not care.

I definitely send my child to learn Chinese from her yearly age, even more than English and send her to study in either China or Japan at university level when she grow up. I will not spend a dollar for her to study in the US, unless she get scholarship to study in top-notch ones, like Harvard or MIT.

Do not trust the media 100%, whether in the West or in Vietnam now. Most of the news are either fake or exaggerated to get as many readers as possible.

that is your personal voice, your personal view. other people may see the things you told in different light. I never say I say on behalf of VN, I hope you do the same. as for trusting a certain media or not, my methode is: using my own brain cells. I think many people do it. I don´t believe you are the only one, who uses the brain, other not.

 

[Gijoe]

I grew up, was living long enough in VN so know what is up there. besides, I visit my relatives often. so pls don´t educate me. I travelled to more countries in the world than probably most of posters here ever experience in their lives.

no. you are wrong. I read different media to hear their voices, including propaganda pieces from xinhua to global times, from foxnews to cnn. I can´t tell about the webmasters on certain forums when and what rules apply when posts removed.

do you know the rules of this forum?

that is your personal voice, your personal view. other people may see the things you told in different light. I never say I say on behalf of VN, I hope you do the same. as for trusting a certain media or not, my methode is: using my own brain cells. I think many people do it. I don´t believe you are the only one, who uses the brain, other not.

Bravo for viet nationalist, lol but why you prefer to live in Germany then living in Vietnam?

 

[Viet]

Bravo for viet nationalist, lol but why you prefer to live in Germany then living in Vietnam?

I prefer to live and work in places where I make the best bet. today in Germany tomorrow in France after tomorrow maybe in England. who knows VN may be my next destination. or China. where to live have nothing to do with nationalism. why don´t you call on millions of exile chinese to return to chinese communist paradise?

 

[54ptu]

Should be English and Chinese only. Other languages can be learned as professional at universities.

This is all about Japan seeing Vietnam as a future source of immigration, otherwise you don’t need a nationwide initiative to promote Japanese learning for every 6 year old.

English and Chinese won't be very useful for someone working and living in Japan.

 

[ZY-CN-CA]

I dont know........what I want to say,if second language is important,why not English (or Chinese),if not Chinese,ok
but I really not know why chose Japanese ? who know the reason?thanks