About the author

Quynh is a Vietnamese language educator on a mission: to make Vietnamese feel approachable for the international community, and to share the culture behind it.

Her path here started with a struggle of her own. While learning Japanese, Quynh was taught the traditional way — memorize the grammar, memorize the vocabulary, hope the speaking comes later. It didn't. She could pass a test but couldn't hold a conversation, and she nearly gave up on the language altogether.

What changed things was the Japan Foundation's Marugoto course, built around a simple idea: speak first, and let grammar follow from real situations. Practicing through role-play, tied to real cultural context, Quynh didn't just learn to speak Japanese — she fell in love with Japan itself, and with how deliberately the Japanese share their culture with the world.

That experience became the blueprint for her own teaching. As a Vietnamese teacher, Quynh kept meeting foreign learners who described the exact same frustration she'd felt: years of grammar drills, still unable to order a coffee in Vietnamese. So she set out to build something different — lessons that put real conversation first, drawn from situations foreigners actually encounter in Vietnam, so that grammar is absorbed rather than memorized.

That method became Vietnamese with Ease — and, alongside it, iSpeak Vietlingo, where Quynh now teaches learners around the world to speak Vietnamese with confidence, and to feel a little more at home in Vietnam along the way.