Lunchbox Club for English No. 18: Happiness in your job

The main presenter was specialist Nguyen Thanh Mai from the Department of Politics and Student Affairs. She shared her happiness at working at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - where she has friendly and cheerful colleagues and a scientific and humane working environment. Because her job involves frequent contact with students, she is "infected" with the dynamism, joy and enthusiasm of the young people. And most importantly, she is helped to constantly improve herself. Her sincere colleagues always give timely advice and encouragement in work or are always there to share many things in life. These are the wonderful things that make her happy every morning when she goes to school.

Dr. Pham Huy Cuong shared his happiness in his work from another perspective: it is the opportunity to learn and develop knowledge through many academic activities, of which the Lunchbox Club for English is an example. Working with lecturers and experts in the school also helps him learn a lot about professional knowledge as well as life perspectives.

German students also shared their excitement about studying at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. They were impressed by the friendliness and closeness of the Vietnamese people as well as the enthusiastic support of the teachers at the school.

From the main topic, the discussion also expanded with many ideas related to how to overcome difficulties in learning English, the effectiveness of English classes and English clubs at school, the influence of Vietnamese culture on the use of English by Vietnamese people...

Lunchbox Club for Enghlish continues to be a useful playground for staff and lecturers who are passionate about English and want to have an English practice environment to master and use this international language fluently in study and research. The participation of many international students and lecturers in each session also makes the discussions richer and more exciting with multi-dimensional perspectives from different cultures. The topics of each meeting are also very diverse and closely follow issues related to the School, the lives of staff and students, and current social issues such as: improving the service culture in the School, improving the effectiveness of the Youth Union, how to become a good staff, experience in learning English, introducing the characteristics of work at the university, surveying the effectiveness of students using self-study rooms, discussing abbreviations in the chat language of young people, comparative studies in Linguistics... In addition, new research works of young staff are also introduced and discussed at Lunchbox Club for English, making the content of each issue unique and of good academic quality.