Prague (VNA) – The fifth volume of the six-volumeCzech-Vietnamese encyclopedia made debut in Prague, the Czech Republic on April4.
A the launching ceremony, Vietnamese composer of the bookNguyen Quyet Tien recalled his memories of late Dr. Ivo Vasiljev, a Czechexpert in Vietnamese studies and his co-author of the fourth volume.
Tien thanked Iva Klinderova, another Czech expert inVietnamese studies, who has assisted him in compiling the fifth volume.
He said the last volume of the encyclopedia will becompleted within 2018, adding that following the completion, he will begincomposing the Vietnamese-Czech encyclopedia.
The Czech-Vietnamese encyclopedia’s first four volumes wererespectively released in November in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Aiming to help Czech-born Vietnamese learn their motherlanguage, it is not only a dictionary but a bilingual encyclopedia providingknowledge on multiple areas, ranging from society, culture and history togeography and biology.
It won the second prize of the Dictionary of the Year awardby the Union of Interpreters and Translators of the Czech Republic in May 2016.-VNA