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.
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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Website
Vietnamese Idioms
Phrasebook
Free forum page with Vietnamese idioms grouped by theme and matched with English meanings or similar sayings for quick reading practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing Northern Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition and steady recall practice.
Mobile App
Rosetta Stone
Course Phrasebook
Image-based Vietnamese app with structured lessons, pronunciation feedback, Stories, and a travel Phrasebook for daily self-study.
Website
Phrasebook Tiếng Việt For Beginners
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 100 beginner Vietnamese lessons, short dialogues, and downloadable MP3s for learning everyday phrases and basic sentence patterns.
Book
Reading & Writing Vietnamese: A Workbook for Self-Study
Course
Beginner workbook that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet, tones, spelling, and basic reading with drills, online audio, and printable flashcards.
Podcast
VTM 1
Free Southern Vietnamese podcast with short native-speaker episodes, transcripts, and related videos and articles for listening practice.
YouTube
SVFF
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with beginner lessons, pronunciation practice, role-plays, songs, and podcast-style videos.
YouTube
Carter vs Vietnam
YouTube channel in English about learning Vietnamese, with beginner study tips, personal methods, and some everyday life videos from Vietnam.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
Mobile app for learning Southern Vietnamese through short dialogue lessons with audio, transcripts, English explanations, vocab review, and exercises.
Book
Vietnamese in a Flash Kit Volume 1
Flash Cards
A boxed flashcard kit with 448 Vietnamese words and phrases, sample sentences, tone marks, and a booklet for themed vocabulary study.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of Vietnamese sentence cards with short to medium lines and audio on both sides, made for daily listening, reading, and shadowing practice.
Website
Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese, English, and French word lookup, with multi-dictionary search, browse lists, and a short English-Vietnamese translator.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,096 Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, color coded tones, a tone chart, and audio on most cards for self study.
Book
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.
Book
Survival Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket Vietnamese phrasebook for travelers with phonetic spellings, tone help, themed survival phrases, a mini dictionary, and online audio.
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.