How is the outstanding Vietnamese student in Germany doing now?

Vu Kim Hoan, 7 years ago, attracted the attention of German media to explain the strange phenomenon of Vietnamese students being exceptionally good at studying, leading all foreign ethnic groups, even surpassing the natives. This is shown in the rate of good students at the junior high school level who are selected to enter the 12-year secondary school system (graduates of this system will go straight to university), reaching 59%, 5 times higher than many other ethnic groups, leaving behind German students at only 43%.

Three months ago, Kim Hoan enrolled in Europe Business School (London, UK), graduate program, majoring in business administration, 2017-2019 course, with a State scholarship awarded to excellent students, continuously from February 2014 to August 2019.

To complement the above major and the Dual University she previously graduated from, Kim Hoan is determined to gain an additional master's degree specializing in finance, expected to be in the middle of the course, from July to September 2018. The target is large universities, typically MIT in the US.

Vu Kim Hoan.

To secure funding for that additional course, Kim Hoan applied for a preferential scholarship for excellent German international students selected by the German University Exchange Agency through an independent committee (independent of the government) and reviewed based on strict assessment by relevant universities.

Assessment is based on 4 criteria: professional capacity (including high school graduation scores, university, exams and actual work achievements...) and personal capacity (social activities, experience in other countries, extracurricular activities...); intended study program (training purpose, implementation plan...) and implementation ability (relationship with the intended place of study, existing basic knowledge to continue studying, length of stay to study...), with a score from zero (lowest) to an excellent ten.

All 4 criteria Kim Hoan received a perfect score of 10 from the appraisal agency.

Strange phenomenon about Vietnamese students

Kim Hoan was born on October 17, 1994. When he was 4 years old, Hoan and his sister, who was 7 years older than him, were brought to Germany by their mother to reunite with their family. Hoan's parents opened a flower and plastic plant business at a Vietnamese delivery area in Dresden.

When arriving in Germany, little Hoan did not know a word of German. His parents were busy with work and had to send him to daycare. He spent all day playing with friends who did not speak the same language - this forced situation unexpectedly created an opportunity for Hoan to automatically integrate into German society from a young age.

After two years of kindergarten, Hoan entered Johanna Primary School, Dresden.

Here, during all 4 years at this school, he was an active and versatile member of the extracurricular training program organized by the school - participating in the AG club, the Theater AG art group, the French language group AG, the athletics group AG, winning many cups in competitions...

From grade 3, Hoan was elected class monitor.

Class monitor Hoan finished his 4-year junior high school with a report card summarizing all subjects with a perfect score of 1/1 (10/10 in Vietnam), having all the talents, and the right to be selected to any high school.

In the end, Hoan chose the foreign language department and took an intensive French class.

In 6th grade, Hoan participated in the Federal Foreign Language Olympiad and won 2nd place in the team. In 7th grade, Hoan took Italian lessons in the AG group, and then continued to study Spanish from 8th grade.

In August 2010, the two states of Hamburg and Saxony opened a multilingual practical training course for the 10th grade class. The final results showed that he completed the written exams in French, Spanish, German, and the oral exam in English, winning first place out of 120 candidates.

Vu Kim Hoan now.

Regarding Vietnamese, unlike many other Vietnamese students who often have incorrect pronunciation or break it off like "the Westerner speaks our language" or "the people speak Western language", Kim Hoan always takes care of her mother tongue.

Studying Vietnamese regularly since grade 3, conversing in Vietnamese at home and in the community, being closely connected with family, friends, and relatives - these things created the foundation for Hoan's Vietnamese language to be pure and unmistakable, as her parents once advised, "If you want to learn a foreign language well, you must first master your mother tongue."

The Start-Stipendium German Scholarship Fund Award, which is dedicated to students from grade 8, foreign origin, with good academic performance and outstanding social activities, was awarded to Hoan right from the beginning of grade 8, lasting until the end of high school.

Every year, in Germany, there are about 15 to 20 Vietnamese students receiving this scholarship out of a total of about 200 students nationwide (7.5 - 10%), while the ratio of Vietnamese to the total number of foreigners in Germany is only 1.4%.

According to Vietnamnet