Book
Vietnamese Flash Cards Kit
A boxed set of 200 Vietnamese flash cards with a 32-page guide and native-speaker audio for vocabulary and pronunciation practice.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Book
Reading & Writing Vietnamese: A Workbook for Self-Study
A 10-chapter beginner workbook for Vietnamese reading, spelling and pronunciation, with native audio, exercises and printable flashcards.
YouTube
vietnamesewithhue
A small free YouTube lesson series for beginners covering basic phrases, pronouns, sentence patterns, numbers, food, and everyday questions.
Podcast
VTM 1
Short Southern Vietnamese listening episodes with natural native speech, everyday topics, and transcripts for intermediate learners.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
A Southern Vietnamese podcast library with short dialogues, English breakdowns, transcripts, vocabulary review, and online practice.
Podcast
Teaching Vietnamese is My Hobby
Six short podcast episodes where teacher Gấm Nguyên shares classroom stories, Vietnamese language notes, and practical vocabulary study tips.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Practice Deck
Free Anki deck with about 1,600 Vietnamese word and sentence cards for spaced repetition review, without audio or guided lessons.
Book
Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary
A compact two-way Vietnamese-English dictionary with 25,000 entries, sample sentences, usage notes, and a pronunciation guide.
Book
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
A bilingual Vietnamese-English reader with graded news articles, literature, notes, exercises, photos, and native-speaker audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Core Vocabulary
Free Anki deck with 200+ basic Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, native Hanoi audio, and spaced repetition for daily review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Essentials
Free Anki deck with 101 common Vietnamese words and phrases, two-way English cards, images, and audio for beginner vocabulary review.
Book
Essential Vietnamese Grammar
An English-language Vietnamese grammar reference with 12 chapters, exercises, answer keys, and native-speaker audio for every example sentence.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Book
Vietnamese Essential Dictionary
Compact Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese paperback with 30,000 translations, example phrases, and concise grammar guides.
Anki Deck
Learn Vietnamese with Colored Tones
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese vocabulary with tone-based colors, plus audio on many cards to support review, listening, and tone awareness.
Book
Essential Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary
A compact Vietnamese phrasebook with 1,500+ everyday sentences, a 2,000-term glossary, and brief pronunciation and grammar guides.
Book
Tuttle Compact Vietnamese Dictionary
A two-way Vietnamese-English print dictionary with 25,000 entries, example sentences, idioms, grammar notes, and a pronunciation guide.
Book
Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners
A bilingual reader with 40 Vietnamese folktales, facing English translations, vocabulary support, exercises, cultural notes, and native audio.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section 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
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese 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. Some learning resources 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.