Book
10 Nursery Rhymes from Vietnam
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book with 10 traditional rhymes for babies and young kids, good for family readalouds and early word exposure.
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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YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons with linked website transcripts, audio examples, quizzes, and optional paid tutoring and pronunciation study.
Website
Vietnamese Course
Course
Free web archive of the Cortina Vietnamese course with one textbook PDF and many audio tracks for self paced study and shadowing.
Website
Vtudien
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese dictionary website for quick word lookups, pronunciation, and specialist terms across English and several other language pairs.
Book
Tiếng Việt Cơ Sở Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 2
Course
A 274-page Vietnamese textbook for non-native learners with themed lessons, grammar notes, and practice for reading, speaking, and everyday use.
YouTube
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese practice with short listening videos and podcasts, plus pronunciation lessons and culture-focused content.
Mobile App
LingoDeer
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Structured Vietnamese lessons in a mobile app with native audio, grammar notes, speaking practice, flashcard reviews, and a travel phrasebook.
Website
Star Red Streak
Flash Cards
Free browser-based Vietnamese flashcards with audio and review drills for building everyday vocabulary and practicing pronunciation a little at a time.
Book
Tuttle Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with romanization and quốc ngữ entries for quick offline word lookup and basic study.
Book
Listen Listen
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about nature sounds and seasons, with optional TalkingPEN audio that adds narration, sounds, and simple activities.
Book
Tiếng Việt Nâng Cao Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 1
Course
Structured Vietnamese textbook for foreign learners with 12 topic-based lessons, discussion tasks, and extended reading and speaking practice.
Website
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Website with structured Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
Mobile App
Viet Kids
Flash Cards
Bilingual kids app with Vietnamese and English flashcards, recorded audio, and mini games for early vocabulary, letters, numbers, and reading.
Book
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for kids that introduces Tet Trung Thu traditions with zodiac animals, simple phrases, and cultural details.
Podcast
Teaching Vietnamese is My Hobby
A 6-episode podcast where teacher Gấm Nguyên shares short stories from teaching Vietnamese, plus practical tips on grammar and vocabulary study.
Website
Vietnamese Keyboard Online
Free browser-based Vietnamese keyboard that lets you type accented text with three input modes, then copy your text or save it as a file.
Website
Storybooks Speech and Hearing
Readers
Free website with graded Vietnamese storybooks, English text, IPA support, and PDF downloads for beginner reading and pronunciation 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.
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.