To Long Bui, an international studies professor at UC Irvine, [Derek] Tran’s comments about his Vietnamese fluency “comes off as personal exaggeration, typical of political campaigning.” “Fluency can mean many things, including the fact that a candidate can speak in a casual conversation fluently,” said Bui, who studies generational differences around homeland politics. “But technical terms about commerce, the law, and government can be harder to express.” While language fluency is important to the Vietnamese American community, Bui said, there are translation tools they can use.

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