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VietSyllables
Free website with an interactive Vietnamese syllable chart, tone controls, minimal pairs, and Northern plus Southern audio for pronunciation practice.
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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Vietnamese With Stories: A Vietnamese Story Book for Beginners
Readers
Beginner Vietnamese reader with 24 short daily-life stories, English translations, vocabulary lists, and a simple pronunciation guide.
Book
Colloquial Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with structured lessons, grammar, exercises, and free native-speaker audio for the dialogues and reading passages.
Book
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.
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Udemy
Course Tutoring
Udemy is a course marketplace where you can buy or preview self paced Vietnamese video classes from different instructors, then learn on your own schedule.
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National Resource Center For Asian Languages
Readers
CSUF's NRCAL website features Vietnamese children's readers and contest-winning storybooks that support early literacy and heritage language reading.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 1 Short
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with very short Vietnamese beginner sentences and audio in both Vietnamese and English for quick daily review and shadowing.
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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.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons with clear beginner topics, plus linked blog practice, quizzes, a paid pronunciation course, and tutoring.
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Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 1
Course
Bilingual first-grade Vietnamese workbook for heritage learners, with phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and built-in review tests.
Mobile App
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Travel-focused Vietnamese phrasebook app with Northern and Southern audio, flashcards, and quizzes to build useful beginner vocabulary.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Mobile App
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Cards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for practicing basic Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition, so you can review a little at a time.
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123 in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Tour of Vietnam's Famous Cities
Readers
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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Tiếng Việt 123 Level A
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 16 daily life lessons, bilingual English Vietnamese explanations, review units, culture notes, and free audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning the Vietnamese alphabet, tone marks, and letter sound contrasts through quick spaced repetition reviews.
Mobile App
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
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.