Dr Van Tran from our VietSpeech team is hosting a weekly radio program on SBS titled "Maintaining Vietnamese together". It is broadcast on SBS Vietnamese for 15 minutes every Sunday evening (7-9pm). The first show was titled: "Why do you want to maintain Vietnamese for your children?"
The aims of the program include:
- Providing the Vietnamese community in Australia and overseas with information and guidance related to the maintenance of mother tongue when living abroad
- Raising awareness of the importance of Vietnamese maintenance among the Vietnamese community in Australia and enhancing understanding of and raising interest in Vietnamese language and culture
- Promoting Australia’s multilingualism and multiculturalism
These aims will be addressed through interviews and focus-group discussions on topics including:
- Reasons for maintaining home language
- Challenges in maintaining home language
- Strategies and Support in maintaining home language
- Recommendations for support
- Features of Vietnamese language in relation to culture (dialects, grammar, expressions, folk language and culture)
- Models of successful Vietnamese maintenance
Here is the URL link to one of the programs:
Here is another program: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/vietnamese/audio/cu-ng-giu-tie-ng-vie-t-bo-me-co-don-thuong-doc-ma-khi-giu-tieng-viet-cho-con?fbclid=IwAR1X1GpbnleCCJIUVX6KPnD2oATWKeFeFJg3x2T_OzqacGka_77z-njP9cY
