Website
italki
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent teachers, with trial classes, flexible scheduling, and optional AI study tools.
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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Browser Extension
Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Browser extension that turns Vietnamese videos and web text into clickable lookups, then saves words and sentences as SRS flashcards.
Website
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
Video-based Vietnamese listening practice with short graded clips you can filter by level, teacher, and Northern or Southern dialect.
Language School
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
Website
MyLanguages.org
Dictionary Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with basic grammar pages, word lists, common phrases, audio examples, and a short beginner quiz in one place.
Book
Vietnamese Essential Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 30,000 translations, short grammar notes, and a compact format for daily study.
Website
iLanguages
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with core words, travel phrases, audio, alphabet notes, grammar basics, flashcards, and a short quiz for review.
Website
I Love Languages
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 18 beginner Vietnamese lessons, vocabulary tables, short grammar notes, common phrases, and audio for word and phrase practice.
Book
Periplus Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket paperback Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000+ entries, plus short grammar and pronunciation notes for travel.
Mobile App
PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
Book
The Colors of Tet
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches basic colors through Tết objects and traditions, with stickers and QR bonus content.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
Course
Free DLI course books on Live Lingua with downloadable PDFs and matching audio drills for learners who want structured practice in basic Vietnamese.
Book
Vietnamese Picture Dictionary
Dictionary
Photo dictionary with 1,500 Vietnamese words by topic, example sentences, and free online audio for beginner-friendly vocabulary study.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building basic Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition, suited to learners who want quick daily word and phrase review.
Mobile App
Drops
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Gamified app for learning Vietnamese words and common phrases through 5 minute picture based drills, audio, reviews, and optional speaking practice.
Mobile App
VKids ABC
Course
Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.
Mobile App
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Dictionary
Mobile Vietnamese-English dictionary and translator with offline lookup, audio pronunciation, browser pop-up translation, and saved word lists.
Website
Vietnamese Learning Games
Flash Cards
Free website with beginner Vietnamese vocabulary games, flashcards, and phrase practice using Southern audio for quick listening and pronunciation drills.
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.