Russian Language Abroad: Vietnam school program included Russian Language classes

The Vietnam school program included Russian language classes. It will be taught from the third to twelfth forms as a first foreign language, four lessons per week for primary school and three lessons per week for secondary school.

The Vietnamese school program provides the mandatory study of one foreign language and one additional language of the student's choice. The first foreign language is obligatory for students of the third-twelfth grades, and the second foreign language is in the curriculum for students of the sixth-twelfth grades.

Since 1945, after the formation of modern Vietnam, Russian was taught in almost all schools and universities. Thousands of Vietnamese students annually went to study in the Soviet Union. But when the USSR failed, the number of people studying Russian dropped off, and by 1997, Russian was  excluded from the school program.

At present, specialists from the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Hanoi promote the necessary methodological assistance to the Russian language teachers in Vietnam, providing them teaching aids.