Book
The Biscuit Moon
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about conflict and cooperation, with simple repeated language and optional TalkingPEN audio.
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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Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 3
Interactive sound board book with six Vietnamese-English children's songs, native audio, and repeat listening for babies and toddlers.
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123 in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Tour of Vietnam's Famous Cities
Readers
Bilingual board book for toddlers that teaches numbers 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through Vietnam landmarks and simple activities.
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Do Dinosaurs Eat Bun Bo Too?
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for toddlers that teaches opposites with dinosaur and bún scenes plus side by side vocabulary.
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Pinocchio and the Real Boys
Readers
Vietnamese-English picture book retelling Pinocchio, with page-by-page text and optional PENpal audio to hear the story in both languages.
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Are You Sleepy Yet, My Dear?
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese bedtime picture book that teaches simple animal and nighttime words through a gentle story for young children.
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The Colors of Tet
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches basic colors through Tết objects and traditions, with stickers and QR bonus content.
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Alfie's Angels
Readers
A paid Vietnamese-English children's picture book that gives beginners and families simple reading practice through a short story about being yourself.
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Happy After All
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about a girl settling into a new country, with simple text, illustrations, and optional TalkingPEN audio.
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Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 2
An interactive sound board book with six Vietnamese and English children's songs for toddlers, designed for early language exposure at home.
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The Elves and the Shoemaker
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling of the Grimm tale, with dual-language text for shared reading and beginner vocabulary practice.
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Tiếng Việt Mẫu Giáo: Thực Hành
Course
Beginner workbook for heritage kids learning Vietnamese letters, tones, spelling, short readings, and review quizzes in a school-style format.
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Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 3
Course
A Grade 3 Vietnamese practice book for heritage learners, with reading, spelling, vocabulary, sentence work, and built-in tests.
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The Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling The Little Red Hen with parallel text, simple language, and artwork suited to young readers.
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Ellie’s Secret Diary
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese children's book about school bullying, told as a diary story with support notes that help young readers discuss feelings.
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.