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Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
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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Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
Book
Happy After All
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about a girl settling into a new country, with simple text, illustrations, and optional TalkingPEN audio.
Website
Mango Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese lessons on the web with short dialogues, native audio, grammar and culture notes, and voice comparison for speaking practice.
Website
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Book
Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 2
An interactive sound board book with six Vietnamese and English children's songs for toddlers, designed for early language exposure at home.
Book
Vietnamese Flash Cards Kit
Flash Cards
Boxed flashcard kit with 200 Vietnamese cards, a 32 page guide, and online native speaker audio for building basic vocabulary and pronunciation.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 4 Medium Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with medium long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and TTS audio for focused listening, shadowing, and sentence review.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 1
Course
Bilingual first-grade Vietnamese workbook for heritage learners, with phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and built-in review tests.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Mia
Instagram account with short Vietnamese lessons for beginners, focused on pronunciation, everyday phrases, and practical travel speech.
Mobile App
Mondly
Course
Mobile app with short Vietnamese lessons, voice-based practice, quizzes, and chatbot dialogues to build everyday vocabulary and speaking habits.
YouTube
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese practice with short listening videos and podcasts, plus pronunciation lessons and culture-focused content.
Book
Vietnamese in 40 Minutes
A short digital audio phrasebook from Collins that teaches basic Vietnamese travel phrases through listen and repeat drills in about 44 minutes.
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Beginners’ Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Teach Yourself Vietnamese book with short lessons, practice exercises, study planners, and free companion audio in the Library app.
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.