Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with a Hanoi-focused word set for learners who want dialect-specific flashcard review.
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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Social Media
Vietnamese with Mia
Instagram account with short Vietnamese lessons for beginners, focused on pronunciation, everyday phrases, and practical travel speech.
Website
Elementary Vietnamese Grammar
Free blog that republishes 30 Vietnamese grammar units with English explanations, examples, and written practice on easily confused forms.
Social Media
Sock Teach Vietnamese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese lessons on everyday phrases and slang, useful if you want quick practical language tips in your feed.
Website
Glosbe
Dictionary
Free English-Vietnamese dictionary website with example sentences, audio, images, and a built-in translator for quick word and phrase lookup.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
Mobile App
Ling
Course
Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.
Mobile App
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
Website
Langi: Learn by Reading Stories
Flash Cards Readers
Bite-sized Vietnamese stories with native audio. One-tap translation and SRS flashcards turn reading into real vocabulary.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrases
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native audio, search, and voice recording to help beginners learn useful travel and daily phrases.
Book
Do Dinosaurs Eat Bun Bo Too?
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for toddlers that teaches opposites with dinosaur and bún scenes plus side by side vocabulary.
Book
Tấm and Cám
Readers
A short bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book that retells the Tấm and Cám folktale in simple language for young children and beginner readers.
Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
Book
Tiếng Việt Mẫu Giáo: Thực Hành
Course
Beginner workbook for heritage kids learning Vietnamese letters, tones, spelling, short readings, and review quizzes in a school-style format.
Language School
123Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with in-person classes in Vietnam, live online lessons, and a beginner self-study video course with quizzes and free sample lessons.
Mobile App
Beelinguapp
Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through side by side stories, audio, and quizzes, with word lookup and flashcard review.
YouTube
Vietnamese Pronunciation
Course
Free YouTube playlist with short Vietnamese pronunciation drills on tones, vowels, consonants, and sound combinations for beginner practice.
Book
My Sister is a Bother
Readers
Bilingual picture book about sibling feelings, written mainly in English with selected Vietnamese words and lines for family reading 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.