Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, kindergarten teacher Thao Tran helps student Brian Ho learn fish anatomy in Vietnamese ...

Vicky Tran wants her son to be able to speak with his grandparents. The thing is, they speak Vietnamese and the 5-year-old has decided that he’d rather stick with English. Enter the new ...

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 ...

Kim Vorasai, a 41-year-old Portlander who emigrated from Vietnam at age five, never learned to write or read in her native language. Back then, Vorasai said, Portland Public Schools’ educational ...

Growing up in Palo Alto, California, Mika Tanner remembered her mother’s insistence on speaking to her exclusively in Japanese. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, ...

A school in Little Saigon is set to become the first public campus in California to provide instruction in both English and Vietnamese. DeMille Elementary School’s Vietnamese Dual-Language Immersion ...

MIDWAY CITY, Calif. (KABC) -- Kindergarten students in Midway City are taking part in the state's first Vietnamese-English dual immersion program. Students at Demille Elementary School spend half of ...

Vietnam is fast becoming a thriving center of industry and trade. In fact, some economists say it will easily dethrone China and become the next Tiger nation: the region's trade export leader. To that ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—When Thuy Vo Dang came to the U.S. as a young girl, her English took off. Her parents sent her to Vietnamese school on the weekends to learn her native language, but she ...

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