VOA慢速英語: 越南街頭小販幫助窮苦孩子學習英語和日語（雙語）

越南街頭小販幫助窮苦孩子學習英語和日語

In Vietnam, two members of a family of street vendors-- street sellers -- are finding a way to help the poorest students in Hanoi. Pham Minh Dap and his brother are providing the students with mostly free English and Japanese lessons at a learning center they created. The men want to help people who would not normally have a chance to learn a foreign language.

越南一家街頭小販家中的兩位家庭成員正在用一種新的方法來幫助河內(nèi)市的窮苦學生學習。Pham Minh Dap和他的兄弟開創(chuàng)了一家學習中心，主要為學生們提供幾乎免費的英語和日語課程。這兩個兄弟想要幫助那些通常沒有機會學習外語的人們。

Some education experts in Vietnam say such knowledge may help college graduates get jobs. The country’s economy has improved. But many graduates continue to have a hard time finding employment. Local media report ten percent of university graduates do not have a job.

越南的一些教育專家稱，這些知識可以幫助大學畢業(yè)生找到工作。這個國家的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展水平有所提高，但是許多畢業(yè)生卻仍然很難找到工作。據(jù)當?shù)孛襟w報道稱，10%的大學畢業(yè)生沒有工作。

Earlier this year, 24-year-old Pham Minh Dap and his brother established a school they call Stand By You. Volunteers teach poor students English and Japanese.

今年早些時候，24歲的Pham Minh Dap與其兄弟一起建立了名為“Stand By You”的學校。志愿者們叫窮苦學生學習英語和日語。

Many classes are free. Students with some language knowledge pay 25 to 50 cents per class.

許多課程都是免費的，有一些需要付費的語言知識，每個學生每節(jié)課只需支付25到50美分。

Mr. Dap pays about $500 to rent the language center space and for other costs. He gives about $150 from his earnings as a street vendor and private language teaching. His brother gives the same amount from money he earns as a secretary. Friends provide the rest.

租用這個語言中心的教室的費用和其他費用等，一共花費了Dap先生大約500美元。他從他作為街頭小販和私人語言教師所賺取的收入中拿出了大約150美元。他的兄弟也從自己做秘書所得報酬中拿出了相同數(shù)量的資金，其他費用由朋友們幫助提供。

Mr. Dap says students come to the city from the countryside and must pay for food or rent. He says the students’ parents are farmers. And he said farmers are very poor in Vietnam.

Dap先生稱，農(nóng)村的學生來到城市，還必須要花錢吃飯和住宿，這些學生的父母都是農(nóng)民，越南的農(nóng)民都非常貧窮。

But Pham Minh Dap is also poor. He sells balloons and children’s toys outside Hoa Binh Park in the center of Vietnam’s capital. He works there for a few hours on most afternoons. He earns about five dollars each day.

但是Pham Minh Dap本身也很窮，他靠在越南首都中心的和平公園賣氣球和兒童玩具為生。在大多數(shù)的下午，他會在那里工作幾個小時，大約每天他能掙5美元。

Mr. Dap and many of his family members have sold things in the area for five years. They come from a village of rice farmers in Thanh Hoa Province.

Dap先生和他的許多親人在這里買東西已經(jīng)五年了，他們都來自清化省的以種稻為生的村莊。

Twenty-four-year-old Pham Thi Trang is one of 600 students at the language school. She is finishing her university studies. Her parents work in a market in a village in Ha Nam Province. She says life is hard in the city.

24歲的Pham Thi Trang是該語言學校的600名學生之一，她即將完成其大學學業(yè)，她的父母在越南哈南省一個村莊的集市上工作。她稱，在城市里生活很困難。

She says she earns about $50 a month from a part-time job, and her parents give her $75. But this is not enough to live on. She has said she has to be very careful with money so she can pay her bills.

她稱，她每月兼職可以自己掙到大約50美元，她的父母會給她75美元，但是這些錢并不夠在城市里生活。她稱，她得精儉節(jié)約才夠支付每月的費用。

Demand for the school is growing. About 1,000 people are on a waiting list to enter. Ten people have offered to teach for free. And Mr. Dap says he is hoping to raise money to pay for a bigger place. He wants to open more classes.

來這所學校上學的人越來越多，現(xiàn)在在等候名單上大約有1000人在等待入學，有10名教師在這免費支教。Dap先生稱，他希望可以籌集到更多的資金，來租用一個更大的地方，希望可以開設更多的課程。

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Words in the News

poverty - n., lack of money, poor living conditions

vendors - n., people who sell things, often on the street

rent - n., the payment to the owner for use of property or equipment

countryside - n., rural, not part of a city or community

inequality - n., lack of equal treatment