VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
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.
Showing 39 resources filtered by Made For Children. View all resources.
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The Legend of Cuoi, the Man on the Moon
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book retelling the Cuội moon legend for Trung Thu, made for young readers and family read-alouds.
Website
Vietnamese Learning Games
Flash Cards
Free website with beginner Vietnamese vocabulary games, flashcards, and phrase practice using Southern audio for quick listening and pronunciation drills.
Book
Let's Learn Vietnamese Kit
Flash Cards
A boxed Vietnamese starter kit with 64 illustrated flashcards, a wall chart, and online audio to build basic words and pronunciation.
Tấm and Cám
Readers
A short bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book that retells the Tấm and Cám folktale in simple language for young children and beginner readers.
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.
DinoLingo
Course
Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.
Storybooks Speech and Hearing
Readers
Free website with graded Vietnamese storybooks, English text, IPA support, and PDF downloads for beginner reading and pronunciation practice.
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Sunita Makes Friends
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for ages 3 to 6, with a simple story about friendship and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
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Li’s Chinese New Year
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for kids about Lunar New Year, with a simple story plus zodiac facts, recipes, and activities.
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Welcome Lunar New Year
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches the 12 con giáp, simple Tết greetings, and basic word-picture reading.
VKids Numbers
Course
Kids app for learning numbers 0 to 9 through tracing, simple math, mini-games, and audio. Better for preschool numeracy than Vietnamese study.
VKids ABC
Course
Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.
Mommy & Me Vietnamese
Free bilingual Vietnamese podcast for kids and parents, with songs, stories, and themed episodes that build basic listening and everyday vocabulary.
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Listen Listen
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about nature sounds and seasons, with optional TalkingPEN audio that adds narration, sounds, and simple activities.
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My First Book of Vietnamese Words
Readers
Bilingual ABC picture book that teaches everyday Vietnamese words with rhymes, cultural notes, and free online audio for young beginners.
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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.
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10 Nursery Rhymes from Vietnam
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book with 10 traditional rhymes for babies and young kids, good for family readalouds and early word exposure.
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.