From June to August 2022, Phong Hong, a graduate student majoring in Public Health, University of Michigan joined the Vietnamese language program with CVSEAS . He is a fellow of the 2022 Summer FLAS. After two and a half months, Phong completed 140 hours of Intermediate Vietnamese level and got accepted to the Advanced Vietnamese course at Michigan University.

On 15 June 2022, Phong Hong, a 2022 FLAS fellow began his online Vietnamese program with the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies. Phong is pursuing his Master degree in Computational Epidemiology & System Modeling at the University of Michigan. His aim is to refine his Vietnamese reading and writing skills as well as exploring public health policy in Vietnam, which will greatly benefit Phong’s research in the coming years. 

Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies is one of the institutes in Southeast Asia providing Vietnamese language training eligible for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship funding. The program offered by CVSEAS is approved by Northern Illinois University, see more here.

CVSEAS provides Vietnamese language courses for students who wish to improve their Vietnamese proficiency to apply for the Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship (FLAS) scholarship or for personal purposes. These programs will be arranged in accordance with students’ current language levels.