VietNamNet Bridge – The phrase “dich may” (translating with machine) cannot be found in the Vietnamese dictionary yet. However, the machine translation market has been heating up in the digital era. A group of scientists intended to celebrate the 66th Vietnamese National Day September 2, in a special way: debuting the machine translation market. This is the group of computer programmers, born in 1982-1987, who wrote a special software piece – Bocohan. Dr Nguyen Ai Viet, the head of the group, called the software Bocohan to make the day the product was completed – December 30. On the same day in 1408, Vietnam won in the glorious fight against the Ming Dynasty’s army. Part 1: Demand increasingly high A student of the Hanoi Medical University said that she has to look for the reliable translators who can help translate medical professional documents from English to Vietnamese. Every member in her class has been assigned to translate a page of a … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese, wherever they live in the world, have been learning Vietnamese language everyday to uphold and promote the national culture identity. However, they meet a lot of difficulties in the study. Vietnamese need to know Vietnamese When deciding to leave Vietnam with her family to the US, Vu Minh Hien, who now works for the World Bank in Washington DC, felt worried that her two daughters, Quynh Trang, 17, and Minh Khue, 8, may “forget” Vietnamese. The two girls have to speak English at school when communicating with friends and teachers. The problem is that they spend more time at school than at home, which means that they speak English more than Vietnamese. This means that the two girls may forget the mother tongue. Hien, on one hand, encouraged her daughters to communicate more with friends to improve their English and overcome cultural differences to get adapted to the … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge – When he was over two years old, he could speak 40-50 English words. When he was three, he spoke English more fluently than Vietnamese. A good-looking 14 year old schoolboy, 1.8 meters tall, attracted the audience’s special attention when he appeared at the competition “Chinh phuc – Vi tam voc Viet” (conquering pinnacles – for the Vietnamese intelligence). The boy is Luu Truong Vinh Tran, born in 2000 in the central city of Da Nang into a family where the father is a lecturer of the University of Education and mother a lecturer at the Foreign Language University, and his brother now is studying in India. He is called a “multitalented” boy because of the high achievements in many different fields: the gold medal at the Math-Internet Olympiad national competition (when he was in the 5th grade), the consolation medal at the IOE English national competition (5th grade), the gold medal at the math competition APMOPS Asia … [Read more...]