About Romi

Nguyen Hong Nhung, aka Romi, is an ambitious 22-year-old graduate from the University of Social Sciences & Humanities (Viet Nam National University of Ha Noi). She received her B.A. degree in Linguistics (Honors programme) in October 2007.

Her thesis, entitled “An initial approach to study the HIV/AIDS language in Vietnamese print media (based on the data of Tuoi Tre newspaper from
June 2000 to January 2007)” was carried out from February to May 2007. It was supervised by Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh, a cultural anthropologist at the Institute of Linguistics.

As a requirement from the university, the thesis was unfortunately written in Vietnamese, not English. But hopefully, this bilingual blog can afford you some glimpse of the research.

By sharing some certain parts of her writing on the Internet, Romi hopes that it will be helpful to someone, especially those who are doing research on related themes and those who would like to read how a young Vietnamese looks at her country’s social issues. Although people may find the English translation/writing unnatural, please disregard the mistakes. After all, English is a second language to Romi anyway.

If interested, you are welcome to read this paper at the resource centre library of ISDS (R.19-1 VIMECO Building, Pham Hung Rd., Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Tel: (84-4) 7820058. Fax: (84-4) 7820059)

And if you have any queries or would like to have some further discussion with the author, please contact Romi at romibleue@gmail.com
Please feel free to leave your comments here as well.

Thank you!

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Romi is a versatile youth activist, an avid reader, and an excellent student.
Education:
@2003 – 2007: Linguistics Gifted Class K48 (no major)
Department of Linguistics, University of Social Sciences & Humanities, VNU Ha Noi.
@July – December 2004: Singapore Management University (Singapore)
Singapore International Foundation – ASEAN Student Fellow 2004.
@2000 – 2003: Foreign Languages Specializing High school (English major).

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads,
armed with nothing but their own vision ~ Ayn Rand (1943)