Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 2
Course
Beginner Vietnamese workbook for children, with alphabet, tone, tracing, reading, and picture-based practice for early literacy.
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
LingoHut
Course
Free Vietnamese website with 125 short lessons for everyday words and phrases, using native audio, simple drills, and quick review games.
Mobile App
HiNative
Mobile Q&A app where you ask native speakers Vietnamese questions by text, audio, or photo and get answers, corrections, and usage notes.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Language
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner to intermediate Vietnamese with Northern audio, short lessons, phrasebook, alphabet practice, grammar notes, and quizzes.
Language School
Tieng Viet Oi
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with online and in-person classes, plus free videos and podcasts for self-study across beginner to upper-intermediate levels.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Website
Wordwall Exercises
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of medium-length Vietnamese sentences with English translations and audio on both sides for listening drills, shadowing, and review.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
Book
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling of the Grimm tale, with dual-language text for shared reading and beginner vocabulary practice.
Book
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket visual dictionary with 3,000 Vietnamese words and phrases by topic, plus transliteration, indexes, photos, and free native-speaker audio.
Mobile App
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Book
Do Unicorns Wear Áo Dài Too?
Readers
Bilingual board book for ages 2 to 6 that teaches color words in English with Vietnamese translations through unicorns wearing áo dài.
Book
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
Readers
Parallel Vietnamese-English reader with graded newspaper texts, a short story, poems, notes, exercises, photos, and online audio.
Book
Easy Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with short lessons, dialogues, drills, and free audio, designed for self-study or classroom use.
Book
Tôma Thiện
Course
Tiếng Nước Tôi is a graded Vietnamese textbook series from Tôma Thiện with lesson PDFs for children, from pre-K through grade 9.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Six short beginner podcast episodes on greetings, family, numbers, and basic sentences, plus a quick review test for extra repetition.
Website
Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary
Free A to Z list of Vietnamese idioms with short English translations. Good for quick lookup, reading practice, and picking up common expressions.
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.