DinoLingo
Course
Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.
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 31 resources filtered by Reading and Mobile App. View all resources.
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Ultimate Lac Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
English Vietnamese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with word lookup, examples, pronunciation, bookmarks, grammar content, and daily vocabulary.
Mondly
Course
Mobile app with short Vietnamese lessons, voice-based practice, quizzes, and chatbot dialogues to build everyday vocabulary and speaking habits.
Mango Languages
Course
Vietnamese course app with short dialogue lessons, native audio, grammar notes, and voice comparison for guided self-study.
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
ProDict Eng Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Android dictionary app for English and Vietnamese lookups with offline access, example sentences, collocations, and English definitions.
LingQ
Flash Cards Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through read-along audio, saved words, and SRS review, with a library of lessons plus your own imports.
Vkids Puzzle
Kids app that teaches the 29-letter Vietnamese alphabet through jigsaw puzzles, animated pictures, and native voice-over for early vocabulary practice.
Beelinguapp
Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through side by side stories, audio, and quizzes, with word lookup and flashcard review.
Rosetta Stone
Course Phrasebook
Image-based Vietnamese app with structured lessons, pronunciation feedback, Stories, and a travel Phrasebook for daily self-study.
Viet Kids
Flash Cards
Bilingual kids app with Vietnamese and English flashcards, recorded audio, and mini games for early vocabulary, letters, numbers, and reading.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
Mobile app for learning Southern Vietnamese through short dialogue lessons with audio, transcripts, English explanations, vocab review, and exercises.
Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Paid app for learning Vietnamese from YouTube, pasted text, and images with tap-to-lookup tools, AI help, and spaced repetition flashcards.
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.