St. Raymond’s launches pilot program
with students from Vietnam
On Wednesday, Nov. 3, St.
Raymond High School for
Boys launched its newest pilot
program, Global Talk Network:
Vietnam — New York!
Created by a collaboration
between alumnus Matt
Keenan ’68 and the St. Raymond
Advancement Offi ce,
the Global Talk Network was
developed to connect students
from Da Nang, Vietnam,
to St. Raymond students.
The Global Talk Network
is connecting Vietnam and
American teenage peers and
allowing them to work together.
Ten students from
St. Raymond High School for
Boys will participate in conversational
English sessions
with a peer group of students
in Da Nang Vietnam. This
inter-country educational
venture helps Vietnamese
students practice and be
comfortable speaking every
day conversational English.
Each week students will
meet through Zoom and
St. Raymond student participants of the Global Talk Network: Vietnam – New York. Photo courtesy Jen Geiderman
be given different talking
points. Students will then be
placed into breakout rooms
where the conversations
grow naturally. Students
from both sides are looking
forward to learning about
cultural difference and similarities
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while growing their
knowledge of another country.
The Global Talk Network
meets every Wednesday
through mid-December. Program
creators look forward
to continuing it after the New
Year and possibility extending
it to other St. Raymond
schools.
-Bronx Times
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