The 8 a.m. bell shrilled, and a squirming line of children made their way into class, plopping down on a mat. “Mua. Mua,” she said, her tone deliberate. The kindergartners at DeMille Elementary near ...
Like Chinese, the Vietnamese language is tonal; that is, the meaning of words is changed by inflection. Vietnam used the Chinese writing system and Nom, a Vietnamese script derived from the Chinese ...