Instant Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact phrasebook for beginners that teaches 100 core Vietnamese words and patterns to build useful travel phrases, with MP3 audio and both major dialects. ISBN-13 9780804844635.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
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Pimsleur
Course
Audio-based Vietnamese course on Pimsleur's website and app with 30 guided lessons plus reading, flashcards, quizzes, and AI pronunciation practice.
Lazy Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with slow Vietnamese comprehensible input stories, visuals, and captions to build listening and vocabulary in Northern speech.
123Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with in-person classes in Vietnam, live online lessons, and a beginner self-study video course with quizzes and free sample lessons.
EchoMeo
Course Flash Cards Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese vocabulary practice with gamified lessons, flashcards, listening quizzes, and audio in Northern, Central, and Southern accents.
Street Interviews
Comprehensible Input
Short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles, useful for real-world listening and everyday vocabulary.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with a Hanoi-focused word set for learners who want dialect-specific flashcard review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese grammar through tagged example sentences with audio, spaced review, and a step by step study order.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,096 Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, color coded tones, a tone chart, and audio on most cards for self study.
Clozemaster
Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through fill in the blank sentence drills, with spaced review, audio, and AI explanations for wrong answers.
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
Levion
Vietnamese learning podcast with real dialogues and slow stories featuring native speakers, transcripts, and vocabulary building for beginners.
Website
Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school with online and Hanoi-based lessons, offering 1-on-1 or small group classes with native teachers and trial lessons.
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
A Tiny Book About Numbers
Readers
Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
Anki Deck
The Perfect Northern Anki Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck built from Elementary Vietnamese flashcards with Northern audio, English meanings, and example sentences for basic vocab study.
About the Library
The Library is the structured side of this website. Apps, textbooks, Anki and flash card decks, online courses, language schools, and dictionaries — the resources actually built to teach you Vietnamese in an organised way. Each resource has a short summary, pros and cons, and a note on who it fits best.
No resource is great at everything. Some are strong for reading and weak for listening. Some have great content trapped behind a clunky app. Some only cover one dialect well. The pros and cons on each page call these things out, so you find out before you've spent a weekend on something that wasn't going to work for you anyway.
Everything here is tagged by dialect, format, cost, and the skills it trains. The filters cut a long list down fast: pick Northern or Southern, free or paid, mobile or desktop, listening-focused or grammar-focused, and most of the noise disappears.
FAQ
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add Media once you can recognize basic words and want to train your ear on natural speech.
We look at whether a resource teaches Vietnamese in a useful way, whether the audio quality is acceptable, and whether it is still available and maintained. Each entry has a short review with pros and cons and a note on who it suits best. We do not include resources that are abandoned, broken, or that have not enough valueable content.
Nothing beats a good teacher. Classes — online or face-to-face — give you live feedback on pronunciation, real conversation practice, and someone who can answer the questions a textbook cannot. If classes are not an option, the next best setup is one main course or app to give you structure, a vocabulary review tool such as an Anki deck, and a dictionary you keep open while studying. Our beginner's guide walks through this in detail, with specific picks for both Northern and Southern learners.
No, the Library is a mix. Some are completely free, like Anki decks and many online dictionaries. Some are paid, like most textbooks and language schools. And some are freemium, like apps that give you a beginner course for free but charge for the full content. Use the cost filter to narrow the catalog down to free, freemium, or paid resources only.
Yes. Each resource is tagged with the dialect or dialects it covers. Use the dialect filter to see only Northern, Central or Southern resources. Some entries are dialect-neutral, like dictionaries and grammar references, because written Vietnamese is the same nationwide. If you are unsure which dialect to learn, our Northern and Southern dialect guides explain the differences and how to choose.