Which aspects of Vietnamese culture impress American students?
As I have experienced, I think the Vietnamese concepts of family would be the most impressive issue for American students. Second is the Vietnamese culture of food. Many students have told me that they learn about the Vietnamese cultural identity from the culture of dining. Besides that they are also interested in tones of Vietnamese language. That is why I have come back to Vietnam many times since 2000 to study and find more examples of sound, voices of different dialects of Vietnamese language in the north, South and the central region to introduce to my students. I have done this because I realised I had ignored the tones of different Vietnamese dialects while paying too much concentration on the popular language of Vietnamese only. Because of this many Vietnamese-Americans found that their original language had not been respected. Currently in America, 14 universities and colleges have Vietnamese language training programmes. These universities and colleges have gathered and forme
