Book
FSI Vietnamese Familiarization Course
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese PDF with 12 structured lessons, drills, and notes that build Southern Vietnamese speaking patterns through repetition.
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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Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 1
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video.
Book
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.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 2
Course
Second book in a Southern Vietnamese beginner series with comic-style lessons, glossaries, short grammar notes, and companion audio.
Book
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.
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.