The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

Hanoi: At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal ...

In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil ... the diacritics used to transcribe the six tones of Vietnamese. Calligraphy teacher Nguyen Thanh Tung, who has several young ...