Podcast
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
A Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with short dialogue lessons, transcripts, vocab review, and practice activities on Annie's site.
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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Book
123 in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Tour of Vietnam's Famous Cities
Readers
Bilingual board book for toddlers that teaches numbers 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through Vietnam landmarks and simple activities.
Book
Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 1
Interactive bilingual sound board book with six Vietnamese and English children's songs plus pronunciation support for young kids and families.
Mobile App
DinoLingo
Course
Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable 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.
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.
Mobile App
Tandem
Language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through chat, voice notes, audio calls, video calls, and built-in corrections.
YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
A YouTube channel from a Vietnamese school with free lesson videos on pronunciation, tones, and practical Vietnamese for daily life.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
Website
AmazingTalker
Tutoring
Website where you book live 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, with short trial classes, flexible scheduling, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Book
Survival Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket Vietnamese phrasebook for travelers with phonetic spellings, tone help, themed survival phrases, a mini dictionary, and online audio.
Website
Udemy
Course Tutoring
Udemy is a course marketplace where you can buy or preview self paced Vietnamese video classes from different instructors, then learn on your own schedule.
YouTube
123Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from 123Vietnamese covering beginner Vietnamese basics, pronunciation practice, and some culture and travel content.
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.