Book
Tôma Thiện
Course
Tiếng Nước Tôi is a graded Vietnamese textbook series from Tôma Thiện with lesson PDFs for children, from pre-K through grade 9.
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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Go Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese lessons, pronunciation help, and story based listening linked to Go Vietnamese classes and transcripts.
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Learn Vietnamese Phrases
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native audio, search, and voice recording to help beginners learn useful travel and daily phrases.
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Course Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese with short audio based lessons, everyday phrases, text support, quizzes, and downloadable MP3s for offline study.
Learn Vietnamese Phrasebook
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native-speaker audio, search, and favorites. Free basics plus paid extra phrase packs for travel use.
Tieng Viet Oi
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with online and in-person classes, plus free videos and podcasts for self-study across beginner to upper-intermediate levels.
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons focused on Vietnamese pronunciation, with drills for tones, vowels, consonants, reading, and some Northern Southern accent comparisons.
Phrasebook Tiếng Việt For Beginners
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 100 beginner Vietnamese lessons, short dialogues, and downloadable MP3s for learning everyday phrases and basic sentence patterns.
The Voice Of Vietnam
Course
Free VOV World archive of Vietnamese audio lessons arranged from A2 to C2, useful if you want leveled listening practice with cultural topics.
Storybooks Speech and Hearing
Readers
Free website with graded Vietnamese storybooks, English text, IPA support, and PDF downloads for beginner reading and pronunciation practice.
Vietnamese Headstart2
Course
Free DLIFLC website with beginner Vietnamese lessons on sounds, script, key phrases, and military scenarios, plus audio, quizzes, and certificates.
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.
Language School
LTL Language School
Course Tutoring
In-person Vietnamese school in Hanoi with 1-on-1, 2-on-1, and small group classes, plus homestay, housing, and social activities for immersion.
Tuttle Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with romanization and quốc ngữ entries for quick offline word lookup and basic study. ISBN-13 9780804852999.
Li’s Chinese New Year
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for kids about Lunar New Year, with a simple story plus zodiac facts, recipes, and activities. ISBN-13 9781846115752.
Welcome Lunar New Year
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches the 12 con giáp, simple Tết greetings, and basic word-picture reading.
Tiếng Việt 123 Level A
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 16 daily life lessons, bilingual English Vietnamese explanations, review units, culture notes, and free audio. ISBN-13 9786047727247.
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.