Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner Vietnamese textbook from MSU with pronunciation units, 15 themed chapters, audio, exercises, and culture notes for self-study.
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.
Free beginner Vietnamese textbook from MSU with pronunciation units, 15 themed chapters, audio, exercises, and culture notes for self-study.
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with practice and communication lessons on greetings, introductions, jobs, common objects, and simple classroom topics.
Free Vietnamese learning app with audio flashcards, phrase packs, and an AI tutor, plus support for both Northern and Southern accents.
Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
Free Anki deck for reviewing common Vietnamese words and short phrases with spaced repetition in the Anki app on desktop or mobile.
Free beginner YouTube lessons in Northern Vietnamese that teach core grammar, sentence patterns, and everyday topics through short videos.
Bilingual English Vietnamese bedtime picture book that teaches simple animal and nighttime words through a gentle story for young children.
Free Vietnamese website for beginners with A1 lessons, native audio, travel phrases, short tests, and clear notes on tones and everyday usage.
A Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with short dialogue lessons, transcripts, vocab review, and practice activities on Annie's site.
Compact Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 25,000 entries, parts of speech, idioms, sample sentences, and a pronunciation guide.
Short Vietnamese podcast for intermediate learners, with everyday topics, full transcripts, and vocabulary lists to build natural listening skills.
Free VOV World archive of Vietnamese audio lessons arranged from A2 to C2, useful if you want leveled listening practice with cultural topics.
Second book in a Southern Vietnamese beginner series with comic-style lessons, glossaries, short grammar notes, and companion audio.
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for ages 3 to 6, with a simple story about friendship and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
Academic book on Vietnamese tone systems, phonetics, and phonology. Best for advanced learners who want a deep, theory-heavy look at tone.
Advanced Vietnamese textbook for foreign learners with 12 themed units and review sections on daily life, culture, and practical topics.
YouTube lessons from VietnamesePod101 that teach beginner Vietnamese through short videos on phrases, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
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.
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