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Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Free 70-card Anki deck for beginner Northern Vietnamese, with native audio, English meanings, and short example sentences.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Core Vocabulary
Free Anki deck with 200+ basic Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, native Hanoi audio, and spaced repetition for daily review.
Anki Deck
Memrise Optimized
Free Anki deck with nearly 6,000 Northern Vietnamese cards, arranged in course order and mostly paired with native audio.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
Mobile App
Memrise
A freemium Vietnamese app with spaced vocabulary review, native-speaker videos, short lessons, and AI-supported speaking practice.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Free Anki deck with about 5,800 Northern Vietnamese vocabulary notes and native audio, adapted from a community Memrise course.
Mobile App
Nemo
Flashcard and phrasebook app for useful Vietnamese, with Southern native audio, offline study, and record-and-compare pronunciation.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Free Anki deck with about 1,100 Vietnamese word and phrase cards, tone colors, a tone chart, tags, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Free Anki deck with 1,000 basic Vietnamese words, English meanings, Northern IPA, grammar details, and partial Chữ Nôm forms.
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.