Website
Unite For Literacy
Readers
Free children's picture-book website with 400 plus short books, simple text, and audio narration in many languages for early reading 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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Anki Deck
Vietnamese Word Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building everyday Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. Good if you want simple word review alongside other study tools.
Book
Vietnamese Flash Cards Kit
Flash Cards
Boxed flashcard kit with 200 Vietnamese cards, a 32 page guide, and online native speaker audio for building basic vocabulary and pronunciation.
Language School
Go Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Da Nang based Vietnamese school with in person and online lessons, plus a free podcast and transcripts for extra listening practice.
Website
YouGlish Vietnamese
Dictionary
Search Vietnamese words or phrases and hear them in short YouTube clips with captions, so you can study real pronunciation and usage in context.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, tone-colored cards, tags, a tone chart, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Mobile App
ProDict Eng Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Android dictionary app for English and Vietnamese lookups with offline access, example sentences, collocations, and English definitions.
Book
Essential Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket Vietnamese book with everyday phrases, a mini dictionary, and short grammar and pronunciation notes for travel and basic conversation.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact phrasebook for beginners that teaches 100 core Vietnamese words and patterns to build useful travel phrases, with MP3 audio and both major dialects.
YouTube
Actually Understand Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Vietnamese learning channel with graded comprehensible input videos, mostly Southern accent, plus free lessons on YouTube and more on its site.
Social Media
VTV
Free TikTok clips for quick Vietnamese study, with short phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, and bite sized review you can fit into a daily scroll.
Book
Mini Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000 entries, romanized Vietnamese, and a small format for travel or study.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese: Saigon
Course Flash Cards
iPhone and Apple Watch app for Southern Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City, with lessons, flashcards, tone practice, and offline study.
Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning blog with bilingual lessons, dialogues, vocab, short readings, and YouTube audio across beginner to advanced levels.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school with online and Hanoi-based lessons, offering 1-on-1 or small group classes with native teachers and trial lessons.
Website
EchoMeo
Course Flash Cards Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese vocabulary practice with gamified lessons, flashcards, listening quizzes, and audio in Northern, Central, and Southern accents.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese In A Fun Way
Phrasebook
Free YouTube lessons from a native speaker focused on useful Vietnamese phrases, sentences, and audio you can replay for self-study 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.