The May 24-June 4 training course, the second of its kind to be held in Vietnam, aims to improve student's abilities to pronounce and use Vietnamese words through exchanges on the literature, culture and history of Vietnam.

While in Hanoi, trainees will visit President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and other sites, and meet with Vietnamese students and people.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Tran Quang Hoan, the committee's vice chairman, welcomed overseas Vietnamese students and teachers from two US universities who are spending their summer holidays in their homeland to study the nation's culture and history.  

Prof. Jonathan Chuong Chung from the City College of San Francisco expressed his appreciation of the committee's assistance in opening the Vietnamese-teaching class. He said that the class will link the overseas Vietnamese community in San Francisco with their homeland.