VieTalk Project

SIGN-UP HERE: tx.ag/vtworkshop

Hello to all VieTalkers! We hope your work is going well! For this semester, we would like to announce the launching of a three-part workshop series, starting at the beginning of October. In these workshops, we have selected topics based on your opinions and hope that you will take away valuable information from these. The titles and dates are listed here:

Saturday, October 1, 8:00 - 10:00 PM CST: Lô Tô - The Story of Vietnamese Bingo

Saturday, November 5, 8:00 - 10:00 PM CST: Pronouns, Pronouns, and Pronouns

Saturday, December 3, 8:00 - 10:00 PM CST: The History of Our Last Name

NO REQUIREMENT & COMMITMENT to join! We look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP HERE: tx.ag/rsvpvt

Xin chào, VieTalkers! Our final fellowship week is here and the VieTalk students have worked very hard to put in something fun for us! Please come join us this Saturday, Sep 3 @ 8:30 PM CT to play games and celebrate the students' achievements! We are very happy to have you there!

As the finale of the podcast series, Long, Kevin, and Nicole will open up and tell their experiences about Vietnamese culture and traditions that are no longer considered appropriate by today's standards. This podcast promises to deliver powerful stories since they are coming from authentic and vulnerable places. Listen to this podcast at 9:30 PM CST on our page!

Hi everyone! Continuing the podcast project, Team 03 of the Fellowship - Annalynn Danh, Augustus Seabrooke, Johnny Nguyen, & Tina Nguyen- will present their stories about bringing Vietnamese lunch to school and examine the cultural & emotional meaning of Vietnamese food. Please tune in on our FB page this week at 9:00 PM CST to listen to their stories!

As a part of the VieTalk Summer 2022 Fellowship, the podcast is a great channel to elevate the unique stories of the students. Tomorrow, Saturday, August 13th @ 9:00 PM CST, the fellowship students will showcase their podcasts and tell their stories. The podcasts will be live-streamed here on our FB page. Tune in!

Podcast #1: Traditional vs 21st Century Problems
Speakers: Ashley Tran, Viet Nguyen, Wendy Sauceda, and Van Lam
Synopsis: We will share our thoughts on the complexities of dual identities, including the decision to learn our native tongue, the term "Viet Kieu," Asian-Americans in media, and more.

Podcast #2: Hyphenated
Speakers: Julie Huynh, Darren Pham, & Jamie Lam
Synopsis: As children of immigrants, many of us struggle with the generational differences between us and our parents. Our parents who grew up with traditional values and mindsets, and we who grew up in another generation and country with other values and mindsets–what struggles have we faced, and how did we deal with them?

Xin chào!

We are very excited to announce our very first universal event "VieTalk 2022 Festival." This event will be hosted by our VieTalk Fellowship Students. One of the highlights of this event is we will have "kiosks," each of which will feature a different activity and game. This unique characteristic aims to mimic the festive vibe that we usually see in real-life festivals.

This event is open to all. There are no requirements to attend the event. We hope to see you all there!

RSVP via this link tx.ag/rsvpvt or scan the QR in the poster!

Check your local time here: https://dateful.com/convert/cst-cdt-central-time?t=830pm&d=2022-09-03&tz2=Indochina-Time-ICT

VieTalk Summer 2022 Fellowship Cohort

Please send a huge welcome to the 15 fellowship participants. After the competitive application and interview process, they have demonstrated excellent qualifications and passion for learning the Vietnamese language and culture. VieTalk is thankful for their participation and the aspiration to connect to their heritage. We look forward to seeing them bring about positive impacts on the Vietnamese community!

We would like to let you know that our application for the fellowship has been closed!

Thank you so much for following us in the past couples of weeks, and especially to those who turned in your application. We are so excited and grateful to have you join our very first fellowship. Please be on the lookout for the interview notifications that will be sent out very soon! We wish you all a very good week!

APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

Think about spending your summer on something meaningful? VieTalk Summer 2022 Fellowship is designed to provide not only fun and engaging Vietnamese lectures but also highly meaningful team projects for you to work on. Application only takes less than 10 minutes to complete! Join us now!

APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

You absolutely do not want to miss the fun in this program! Get the application turned in today to join one of the most innovative and interactive Vietnamese learning programs!

DUE THIS SUNDAY - APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

The clock is ticking! Don't wait any longer and apply now for the VieTalk 2022 Summer Fellowship. A truly unique experience where you make indelible memory and meaningful impact while learning Vietnamese!

REGISTER NOW:
tx.ag/MentalHealthVISA

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month in May, the VieTalk Student Association invites you to join us in a virtual discussion on mental health. This is a free 1-hour Zoom event on Saturday, May 21 at 5:30PM PST/ 7:30PM CST/ 8:30PM EST.

Please join us in safe and open discussion where we will share stories, perspectives, and experiences about mental health, including how cultural identities and values impact mental health and well-being. While the focus of this event leans towards those in the Vietnamese community, you don't have to identify as Vietnamese in order to participate!

We ask that you come ready to listen, engage, and connect with our community 💚

APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

Embark on this journey with us to create a meaningful impact during the summer!

Whether you are a student who wants to brush up your resume with a second language, or you are a Vietnamese enthusiast who wants to connect to the language and culture, VieTalk is all you need!

At VieTalk, we value diversity because each of us with a different skill set always contributes to a well-rounded experience. Our courses have gathered the supports from more than 500+ students from around the globe. By participating in this program, you will not only learn from us but also from the stories of our community members!

Plus, VieTalk Fellowship is open to all Vietnamese-learning beginners and all nationalities! Why not apply now?

APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

Want to learn Vietnamese and interact with Vietnamese organizations during the summer? If yes, our 2022 VieTalk Summer Fellowship might be for you!

💙DESCRIPTION:
The theme of our program is "The Golden Heart - Trái Tim Vàng Son," which concentrates on the importance of community-building amongst foreign-born Vietnamese despite distances and cultural differences. Our program will operate just as our regular courses usually do but add more enhanced interactive activities. Throughout the program, you will strengthen your Vietnamese, visual, and listening skills and explore the subtlety of the language by working on two special projects:

1. LOVE WITHOUT WORDS
For the first project, you will team up with other members to create a Vietnamese podcast project with a topic of your choice. Upon learning the Vietnamese knowledge provided by our instructors, you will utilize your skills and experiences to practice your storytelling. You will also have an opportunity to examine the meanings and stories behind Vietnamese vocabulary. Many teamwork activities will abundantly appear throughout the project to help you gain the necessary skills.

2. LOVE WITHOUT BORDERS
For the second project, your team will get matched with a Vietnamese organizations or community projects organized by the Vietnamese students or leaders. You will work hands-on with these organizations to make a significant change in our communities. This is an opportunity to promote cultural exchange between Vietnam and the world and bring the worldwide Vietnamese communities closer together.

💙OUTCOMES:
Be a more confident Vietnamese speaker with deeper knowledge in Vietnamese stories, vocabulary, and history.
Have stronger skills in project planning, team work, and artistic skills.
Establish long-lasting relationships with your fellow Vietnamese around the world.

💙EXPECTATIONS:
Be able to commit to the entirety of the program and spend at least 1 hour per week with the program.
Have a positive attitude and an aspiration to learn Vietnamese.
Be willing to help your program fellows and have a tendency to proactively seek new knowledge.

💙Application Due Date: May 15th, 2022 @ 11:59 PM CST

Should you have any concerns or questions regarding this program, please reach out to us via DM and we will be happy to answer all of your questions!

#2022

APPLY NOW: VIETALK 2022 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
tx.ag/summerfellowship

Want to learn Vietnamese and interact with Vietnamese organizations during the summer? If yes, our 2022 VieTalk Summer Fellowship might be for you!

💙DESCRIPTION:
The theme of our program is "The Golden Heart - Trái Tim Vàng Son," which concentrates on the importance of community-building amongst foreign-born Vietnamese despite distances and cultural differences. Our program will operate just as our regular courses usually do but add more enhanced interactive activities. Throughout the program, you will strengthen your Vietnamese, visual, and listening skills and explore the subtlety of the language by working on two special projects:

1. LOVE WITHOUT WORDS
For the first project, you will team up with other members to create a Vietnamese podcast project with a topic of your choice. Upon learning the Vietnamese knowledge provided by our instructors, you will utilize your skills and experiences to practice your storytelling. You will also have an opportunity to examine the meanings and stories behind Vietnamese vocabulary. Many teamwork activities will abundantly appear throughout the project to help you gain the necessary skills.

2. LOVE WITHOUT BORDERS
For the second project, your team will get matched with a Vietnamese organizations or community projects organized by the Vietnamese students or leaders. You will work hands-on with these organizations to make a significant change in our communities. This is an opportunity to promote cultural exchange between Vietnam and the world and bring the worldwide Vietnamese communities closer together.

💙OUTCOMES:
💛Be a more confident Vietnamese speaker with deeper knowledge in Vietnamese stories, vocabulary, and history.
💛Have stronger skills in project planning, team work, and artistic skills.
💛Establish long-lasting relationships with your fellow Vietnamese around the world.

💙EXPECTATIONS:
💛Be able to commit to the entirety of the program and spend at least 1 hour per week with the program.
💛Have a positive attitude and an aspiration to learn Vietnamese.
💛Be willing to help your program fellows and have a tendency to proactively seek new knowledge.

💙Application Due Date: May 15th, 2022 @ 11:59 PM CST

Should you have any concerns or questions regarding this program, please reach out to us via DM and we will be happy to answer all of your questions!

#2022

Some of the photos of the incredible participants of Albert’s workshop! Thank you UVSA South!

"Dù ai đi ngược về xuôi
Nhớ ngày giỗ tổ mùng 10 tháng 3."

The saying means no matter where we are or where we were born, as long as we are having our Vietnamese heritage, we are a family descending from the noble Hùng.

This traditional saying has been recited for more than 4,000 years ever since the founding of our country Việt Nam by our fathers Hùng Kings.

On this day, we are commemorating the hard work done to build the country, the language, and the culture by our ancestors. This date is also an occasion in which we come together regardless of distance to celebrate.

Happy Hùng King's Commemoration Day, VieTalk Fam!!

Happy Monday!

Last Saturday, our instructor Albert represented VieTalk and hosted the workshop at UVSA South Leadership Summit X at the University of Dallas virtually! The purpose of the workshop was to introduce the participants to the Vietnamese language and culture and engage everyone through highly innovative and interactive activities - just as we usually do at VieTalk!

We would like to send our gratitude to UVSA South for having us and for the amazing support they have provided to make this workshop successful! We also want to highlight the incredible energy of the participants and the tremendous help from our VieTalk student, Christina Tang!

VieTalk Summer Fellowship Program

The mission of VieTalk is not only to introduce language and cultural knowledge to the community, but we also gather together to harness the collective wisdom in support of civic engagement and transformative social change. We are honored to announce the theme of the inaugural VieTalk Summer Fellowship this year, The Golden Heart.

We want to highlight two significant features as part of the program this year:

Love Without Words: During the ten weeks of the program, our 25 fellows will get hands-on knowledge to apply for the visual and audible projects that demonstrate their care and love for family, community, and the world.

Love Without Border: Our fellows will get matched with the Vietnam non-profit organizations/ community projects organized by the Vietnamese students/ leaders. Our fellows will work virtually with these organizations to make a significant change in Vietnam. We hope that the program is a cultural exchange between Vietnam and the world and bring the worldwide Vietnamese community closer together.

Our application will open on April 15th, 2022.

We are grateful that you choose to take a step for the good of humankind.
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Một trong những sứ mệnh của VieTalk không chỉ giới thiệu ngôn ngữ và văn hoá Việt đến với cộng đồng mà còn là nằm trong những hoạt động cộng đồng với những thay đổi tích cực đến với thế giới. Chúng tôi vinh dự khi chính thức thông báo chủ đề cho chương trình VieTalk Summer Fellowship năm nay, Trái Tim Vàng Son.

Trải qua mười tuần, các VieTalkers sẽ có cơ hội học những kiến thức tiếng Việt thực tiễn để áp dụng vào trong dự án mà các bạn sẽ khắc hoạ tình yêu với gia đình, cộng đồng và thế giới. Bên cạnh đó , các bạn VieTalk sẽ được đồng hành với những dự án cộng đồng hay các tổ chức phi lợi nhuận ở Việt Nam nhằm mang lại sự tác động tích cực đối với Việt Nam. Chúng tôi mong chương trình sẽ là nơi kết nối và giao lưu văn hoá giữa Việt Nam và các bạn bè quốc tế và mang cộng đồng người Việt trên thế giới gần nhau hơn.

Đơn đăng ký sẽ được mở vào ngày 15 tháng 4 năm 2022.

Chúng tôi vui mừng khi có bạn trong chương trình và biết ơn với thái độ tích cực của bạn mang đến với cộng đồng.

VieTalk Project

Greetings VieTalkers,

We are thrilled to welcome over 200 new members to our family this semester, and we are honored to be a part of your Vietnamese learning journey. We invite you to join us at the orientation of VieTalk, VIETNAMIXER, on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022, at 5:00 pm PST. We believe it is a great opportunity for you to learn more about VieTalk and get connected with their peers coming from more than 10 countries in the world. We estimate the event will last around 1 hour. You do not need to join the whole event and feel free to stop by to say hi to your fellows.

If you decide to join or are interested in the event, please fill out the RSVP link below:
https://forms.gle/go6UncJwgk23pLSKA

We will send you the Zoom link one day before the event.

We cannot wait to meet you soon, and we wish you all the best.
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Designed by Catherine Huynh
Hosted by Department of Events
VieTalk Student Association

What do you do if today is the last day of your life ?
When is the last time you laugh ?

Greetings VieTalkers, and welcome to ThinkLab !

In this lab, you will get challenged to question the status quo by a series of insightful questions that our team has prepared for you. We hope that it is an opportunity for you to take a moment to rethink and redesign your life journey and join an open discussion with your peers.

Our lab will open in middle April, and we can't wait to welcome the first life laboratory technicians.

VieTalk Project

Dear incoming VieTalkers,

We are so excited to welcome you join us on the Vietnamese for Beginners course this Spring. We want to introduce you our new Study Buddy system that we will apply in our class this semester.
For every four weeks, you will be matched with two classmates, and three of you will be the study buddy partners. You and your buddies will complete the in-class assignments/ homework together, finish the social/ cultural challenges in our VieTalk fan page together, and do the final project at the end of every four weeks together. We will apply the points-earning system, so we will have the prizes for the winning group at the end of every four weeks.

We look forward to meeting you in class next month.
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Only 6 days left to apply for the course. Please apply by the link below:
https://forms.gle/XZMqSHwnStpa2RCT9

Please apply as soon as possible since we apply first come, first served admissions basis. If you know someone who is interested in learning Vietnamese, please feel free to share the information of the course to them.

VieTalk Project

Want to learn Vietnamese for Free ?
Application for Spring 2022 is now open !

We are delighted to announce that the application for Spring 2022 is now open, and we recommend you apply as soon as possible when we apply on a first-come, first-served admissions basis.
Please apply by the following link below:
https://forms.gle/4w93mCMpFrUcsNeR6
We are thrilled to have you join us, and we look forward to receiving your application.

VieTalk Project

360 degrees of our new format of Vietnamese for Beginners course this Spring 2022.

Course Description:
The course is designed for students who have no prior knowledge of Vietnamese. The course will explore topics of spelling, math symbols, conversational dialogue, systems, slangs and idioms. After the course, students may acquire these skills:
✔️ Knowing how to pronounce basic Vietnamese words.
✔️ Knowing how to count any number less than a billion and do calculations using math symbols.
✔️ Learning grammar and spelling and developing a vocabulary that serves daily conversation.
✔️ Holding a basic conversation in Vietnamese with a variety of topics including greetings, nationality, jobs, address, phone number, time, dates, and year.

Total lecture hours: 15 hours/ semester, 1.5 hours/ week for 10 week.

Class Assignments and Projects:
Students are expected to spend around 1-2 hours outside the classroom for the speaking practice, homework , assignments and final project.

What is new for this semester :
We will increase the level of difficulty of the class to challenge you to go beyond yourself. Please think the class is just a lab to help you practice Vietnamese for the in-life situation. We, all the instructors and Instructor Assistants , are willing and always ready to help if you have any questions.
After the midterm of the class, we recommend you only speak Vietnamese in class. We are ready to help you with the sentence structure and vocabulary development.

Instructor for Spring 2022: Tien Truong

Tuition: Free

Location: Virtual

We look forward to meeting you in class. If you still have any questions, please feel free to comment below or reach out us via VieTalk email: [email protected]

VieTalk Project

Hello all VieTalkers,
We are excited to announce the admissions timeline for Spring 2022. On this semester, we will offer 1 Vietnamese for Beginners course for 20 students. We still apply first come, first served admissions basis, so we recommend you apply as soon as possible since this course will be the prerequisite for VieTalk Summer Fellowship Program starting in June 2022 (More information will be coming soon).

We will post the application link on our Facebook group and VieTalk Fanpage. If you want to receive the application package via email, please feel free to fill out the form below:
https://forms.gle/TTyB6sZzTj5JLZQi7

If you have any questions, please reach out to us by the VieTalk email:
[email protected]

We are thrilled to have you join the community, and thank you for choosing to become the VieTalker.

VieTalk Project