Hanoi, April 18 -- Working in different fields, two Vietnamese Americans -Professor Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde in California and entrepreneur Katherine Lam in Oregon- share a common goal of preserving the Vietnamese language and promoting a modern image of Vietnam to international friends.

Speaking to Vietnam News Agency correspondents in the US, Professor Kieu Linh, founding director of the New Vietnam Studies Initiative at the University of California, said that she initially had limited Vietnamese language skills due to growing up in the US.

In 1993, when she first returned to Vietnam, she had the opportunity to learn Vietnamese further at a university.

She recalled that at that time, there were no Vietnamese language classes in th...