Book
Periplus Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000+ entries plus brief grammar and pronunciation guidance.
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
Vietnamese Flashcards: Important Flash Cards
Paid Vietnamese-English flashcard ebook with about 2,000 words, arranged by topic and frequency for bidirectional offline vocabulary review.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Fundamentals
Free Anki deck for beginners to study basic Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition and build everyday word recognition.
Podcast
VTM 2
Paid Southern Vietnamese podcast with short, unscripted talks by a native speaker, plus transcripts for intermediate listening practice.
YouTube
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons from native teachers covering pronunciation, everyday vocabulary, grammar, dialogues, and listening practice.
Podcast
SVFF
Short Southern Vietnamese lessons built around everyday dialogues, with vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and guided listening practice.
Book
Vietnamese in a Flash Kit Volume 1
A boxed set of 448 Vietnamese flashcards with common words, related phrases, sample sentences, tone marks, and a reference booklet.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons and slow true stories for beginners, with full transcripts for all 12 story episodes.
Book
Easy Vietnamese
A 13-chapter beginner Vietnamese course with dialogues, grammar, drills, cultural notes, an answer key, and free native-speaker audio.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account sharing short Southern Vietnamese pronunciation and grammar tips, plus practical notes on everyday language and culture.
Social Media
Vietramese
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Free Anki deck with 1,000 basic Vietnamese words, English meanings, Northern IPA, grammar details, and partial Chữ Nôm forms.
YouTube
Slow Vietnamese
Free YouTube channel with slow Northern Vietnamese stories, vlogs, interviews, and vocabulary videos for focused listening practice.
Website
Star Red Streak
Free browser-based Vietnamese flashcards with audio and review drills for building everyday vocabulary and practicing pronunciation a little at a time.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
A Southern Vietnamese blog with bilingual lessons, 45 beginner units, dialogues, grammar notes, vocabulary, stories, and videos.
Social Media
Viet with Quinn
Instagram account for short Vietnamese study sessions and casual exposure. Best used as a light supplement, not a full course.
Book
Learn Vietnamese Through Stories Volume 1
An illustrated Southern Vietnamese reader with 20 short stories, key-word glossaries, and language notes for elementary learners.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
A free podcast feed of short Vietnamese audio and video lessons on conversations, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
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.