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A Tiny Book About Numbers
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Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
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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The Biscuit Moon
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Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about conflict and cooperation, with simple repeated language and optional TalkingPEN audio.
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Do Unicorns Wear Áo Dài Too?
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Bilingual board book for ages 2 to 6 that teaches color words in English with Vietnamese translations through unicorns wearing áo dài.
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123 in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Tour of Vietnam's Famous Cities
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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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Sunita at the Zoo
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English Vietnamese picture book about a zoo trip for ages 3 to 6, with simple parallel text and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
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Happy After All
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Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about a girl settling into a new country, with simple text, illustrations, and optional TalkingPEN audio.
VietSpeech
Flash Cards
Free printable VietSpeech PDFs for families with speech cards, a bilingual workbook, and simple guides to help children speak Vietnamese and English.
Hello World
Flash Cards Dictionary
Free Vietnamese learning website with picture vocabulary, flashcards, songs, and simple word games that work well for beginners and kids.
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The Colors of Tet
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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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Pinocchio and the Real Boys
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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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Sunita’s Special Day
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Bilingual English-Vietnamese picture book about Halloween for ages 3 to 6, with PENpal audio support for read-along listening and early reading.
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The Elves and the Shoemaker
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English-Vietnamese picture book retelling of the Grimm tale, with dual-language text for shared reading and beginner vocabulary practice.
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The Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat
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English-Vietnamese picture book retelling The Little Red Hen with parallel text, simple language, and artwork suited to young readers.
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Do Dinosaurs Eat Bun Bo Too?
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Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for toddlers that teaches opposites with dinosaur and bún scenes plus side by side vocabulary.
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Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
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Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for kids that introduces Tet Trung Thu traditions with zodiac animals, simple phrases, and cultural details.
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ABC in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Guide to Vietnamese Cuisine
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Bilingual board book that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through food words, pairing each letter with a Vietnamese dish and simple illustrations.
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Are You Sleepy Yet, My Dear?
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Bilingual English Vietnamese bedtime picture book that teaches simple animal and nighttime words through a gentle story for young children.
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My Sister is a Bother
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Bilingual picture book about sibling feelings, written mainly in English with selected Vietnamese words and lines for family reading practice.
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.
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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.