A group of students from central Viet Nam have joined hands to teach Vietnamese in the neighboring country of Laos and helped cement the friendship between the two nations.

The course in Laos’ Xiangkhouang Province is part of the summer volunteer activities of an international volunteer team from Vinh University, located in Viet Nam’s Nghe An Province.

Le Minh Giang, chairman of the student union at Vinh University, said the union has organized six courses on the Vietnamese language in Laos.

“After a course, learners know basic words for daily communication,” Giang said.

A student teaches the Vietnamese language in a class in Laos. Tuoi Tre

Nguyen Van Anh, head of the volunteer team, said that since early July this year, 30 volunteers from the university, including six Laotian students, have divided themselves into five teams to visit Xiangkhouang to teach Vietnamese to around 600 students.

Bui Thi Ngoc Anh, from Class K54A2 of the school’s foreign language education faculty, and five members of her group are in charge of a daily class at a center to develop young people in Xiangkhouang.

The students in Anh’s class are Laotian residents, students, officials and civil servants.

With their enthusiasm, the young ‘teachers’ from Nghe An have erased the language barrier between them and their students.

Besides instructing in class, the volunteer students have also served as ‘goodwill ambassadors’ for the friendship between Viet Nam and Laos.

Not only do they help learners get to know about the two countries’ history and traditions through their lessons, but the students have also organized culture, sport, and art performance exchanges, as well as offered consultancy to those Laotian students who want to study at universities in Viet Nam.

(Source: Tuoi Tre News)