Every summer, it has become customary for most Khmer Theravada Buddhist temples in Trà Vinh to organize Khmer language classes. These classes attract a large number of local Khmer students, offering them not only a chance to preserve their language, but also to engage in meaningful activities during their school break.
Cambodia’s Khmer Times has published an article entitled “Southern temples in Vietnam offer free Khmer language classes” in Dai An commune, Tra Cu district, Tra Vinh province.
A training course to teach Khmer language and provide knowledge of culture, history and law of Cambodia for people of Vietnamese origin in Cambodia who wish to get Cambodian citizenship was opened in Takeo province of Cambodia on February 22.
Every summer, monks from Khmer pagodas in the southern province of Kien Giang host classes to teach the written Khmer language to local children in 1st to 7th grade.
The Thoi Dai (Vietnam Times) newspaper of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on June 14 launched its Lao and Khmer language electronic versions.
Khmer ethnic people in southern Vietnam are set to benefit from more support in educational, training, cultural, medical and religious affairs in the future.
Local authorities in the southern province of Kien Giang has opened 297 classes of Khmer language this summer, attracting 7,325 monks and children of the Khmer ethnic group.
How to improve the quality of Khmer ethnic language teaching and learning was the main topic of a conference in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on November 4.
Nearly 300 courses to teach the Khmer language were organised in pagodas across Kien Giang province during the summer, benefiting around 7,000 local monks and children from ethnic minority groups.
Some 300 Khmer children in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang have participated in Khmer language classes, organised annually by local Khmer pagodas during the summer holiday, this year.