Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Core 1k
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with about 1,000 Vietnamese words from the Ling course, plus example sentences, tags, and Northern and Southern 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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Mobile App
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
Book
Sunita’s Special Day
Readers
Bilingual English-Vietnamese picture book about Halloween for ages 3 to 6, with PENpal audio support for read-along listening and early reading.
Book
Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with strong tone and alphabet practice, manga-style dialogues, grammar notes, audio, and printable flashcards.
Mobile App
italki
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 lessons with tutors, messaging teachers, and joining online language classes from your phone.
Website
r/learnvietnamese
Reddit community where Vietnamese learners ask questions, swap study resources, and get informal help with grammar, vocab, and tones.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Practice Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing everyday Vietnamese words and short phrases through spaced repetition and steady vocabulary practice.
Mobile App
haixoai
iPhone app that combines Vietnamese translation, speaking practice, and AI tone feedback for learners who want to use the language out loud.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account from Vietnamese with Thảo sharing short Vietnamese tips and culture posts, with a clear Southern pronunciation and grammar focus.
Mobile App
Parrot Parrot
Flash Cards
iPhone app for turning Vietnamese text into line by line meanings, full translations, and flashcards you can review right away.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Fundamentals
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for beginners to study basic Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition and build everyday word recognition.
Website
Flashcardo
Flash Cards
Free Vietnamese flashcards by topic and top 1,000 words, with audio, printable PDFs, video decks, and an online spaced repetition study mode.
Website
Learn101
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese website with step by step lessons on the alphabet, numbers, phrases, vocabulary, grammar, and basic audio support.
YouTube
Lazy Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with slow Vietnamese comprehensible input stories, visuals, and captions to build listening and vocabulary in Northern speech.
Website
Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
Website
Forvo
Dictionary
Crowdsourced pronunciation website where you can look up Vietnamese words, hear native speaker recordings, compare voices, and save audio.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
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.