Book
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.
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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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
17 Minute Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese website course with short daily lessons, native speaker audio, grammar help, a placement test, and a free trial before purchase.
Book
Alfie's Angels
Readers
A paid Vietnamese-English children's picture book that gives beginners and families simple reading practice through a short story about being yourself.
Mobile App
HiNative
Mobile Q&A app where you ask native speakers Vietnamese questions by text, audio, or photo and get answers, corrections, and usage notes.
Podcast
Vietnamese / English Level 1
Flash Cards
Beginner audio vocabulary drills with English prompts and Vietnamese answers, grouped into long tracks for repeat listening on the go.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
Course
Intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 10 structured lessons, Hanoi-based dialogues, formal readings, drills, and about 10 hours of audio.
Website
Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
Book
Tuttle Vietnamese-English Dictionary
Dictionary
A paperback Vietnamese to English dictionary with over 19,000 entries, plus idioms and sample sentences to help you choose the right meaning.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Cards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. A practical pick if you like building words through self-paced review.
Book
Essential Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact Vietnamese phrasebook and mini dictionary for travel and daily basics, with quick lookup terms, sample sentences, and brief grammar help.
Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck built from Elementary Vietnamese flashcards with Northern audio, English meanings, and example sentences for basic vocab study.
Podcast
Mommy & Me Vietnamese
Free bilingual Vietnamese podcast for kids and parents, with songs, stories, and themed episodes that build basic listening and everyday vocabulary.
Mobile App
Pingo AI
Course
AI speaking app for Vietnamese with guided dialogues, roleplay lessons, and pronunciation feedback in both Northern and Southern speech.
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.