Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1974. He, along with his family, fled to the United States in 1975 after the fall of Saigon. They stayed in Pennsylvania for three years before moving to San Jose, California. They opened one of the first Vietnamese grocery stores in the area. Growing up...

Have you ever gotten mixed up over whether to use “attain” or “obtain” in a sentence? That’s what we’re here for! Stick around, and we’ll tell you the difference between these two words. When you think about online classes, your mind immediately conjures up scenes of innovative wa...

Have you ever wanted to work with someone and when you’re about to formulate your sentence, you pulled the fanciest word that popped up in your head and said, “I want to corroborate with you.” Believe it or not, some of us have done that. Sometimes, it happens in those big speeches we make ...