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YouTube channel with slow, clear Vietnamese videos and podcasts for listening practice. Patreon adds transcripts, audio, and vocab 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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Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building basic Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition, suited to learners who want quick daily word and phrase review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Word Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building everyday Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. Good if you want simple word review alongside other study tools.
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. ISBN-13 9780804847988.
Tuttle English-Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Paperback English to Vietnamese dictionary with 18,000 entries, idioms, and sample sentences for everyday word lookup and basic study. ISBN-13 9780804846721.
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. ISBN-13 9780804851299.
Survival Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket Vietnamese phrasebook for travelers with phonetic spellings, tone help, themed survival phrases, a mini dictionary, and online audio. ISBN-13 9780804859028.
Reading & Writing Vietnamese: A Workbook for Self-Study
Course
Beginner workbook that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet, tones, spelling, and basic reading with drills, online audio, and printable flashcards. ISBN-13 9780804853347.
Vietnamese Essential Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 30,000 translations, short grammar notes, and a compact format for daily study. ISBN-13 9780008270667.
10 Nursery Rhymes from Vietnam
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book with 10 traditional rhymes for babies and young kids, good for family readalouds and early word exposure.
A Tiny Book About Numbers
Readers
Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
The Biscuit Moon
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about conflict and cooperation, with simple repeated language and optional TalkingPEN audio. ISBN-13 9781787848597.
Rafa’s First Day
Readers
English Vietnamese picture book about a child’s first day at school, with parallel text and optional audio if you use a Mantra Lingua pen. ISBN-13 9781787847866.
Sunita at the Zoo
Readers
English Vietnamese picture book about a zoo trip for ages 3 to 6, with simple parallel text and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support. ISBN-13 9781801373135.
Do Unicorns Wear Áo Dài Too?
Readers
Bilingual board book for ages 2 to 6 that teaches color words in English with Vietnamese translations through unicorns wearing áo dài. ISBN-13 9781965573013.
Are You Sleepy Yet, My Dear?
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese bedtime picture book that teaches simple animal and nighttime words through a gentle story for young children. ISBN-13 9798988987628.
Vietnamese with Ease 2
Course
Pre-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 15 themed lessons, QR-code audio, and practice across conversation, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation. ISBN-13 9786044017655.
Mondly
Course
Mobile app with short Vietnamese lessons, voice-based practice, quizzes, and chatbot dialogues to build everyday vocabulary and speaking habits.
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.