Book
Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar
Grammar reference book for English speakers that explains modern Vietnamese with short sections, example sentences, and a pronunciation chapter with audio.
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
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons with linked website transcripts, audio examples, quizzes, and optional paid tutoring and pronunciation study.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Cards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for practicing basic Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition, so you can review a little at a time.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation help, study tips, and a level-based resource list for beginners through intermediate learners.
Mobile App
Parrot Parrot
Flash Cards
iPhone app for turning Vietnamese text into line by line meanings, full translations, and flashcards you can review right away.
Book
Learning Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 13 lessons, dialogues, drills, cultural notes, and free online audio plus printable flashcards.
Blog
Late Learning Vietnamese
Substack blog by Quang Dang Tran with weekly posts on learning Vietnamese as an adult, covering study habits, memory tips, tech tools, and media picks.
Book
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling of the Grimm tale, with dual-language text for shared reading and beginner vocabulary practice.
Website
Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary
Free A to Z list of Vietnamese idioms with short English translations. Good for quick lookup, reading practice, and picking up common expressions.
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.
Website
Vietnamese Immersion Guide
Course
Free website with an immersion-based Vietnamese roadmap, a 30-day beginner routine, and setup guides for Anki, Yomitan, and study resources.
Book
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
Readers
Parallel Vietnamese-English reader with graded newspaper texts, a short story, poems, notes, exercises, photos, and online audio.
Book
Tiếng Việt Mẫu Giáo: Thực Hành
Course
Beginner workbook for heritage kids learning Vietnamese letters, tones, spelling, short readings, and review quizzes in a school-style format.
Language School
Vietnamese Language Studies
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school in Ho Chi Minh City with private, group, and online courses plus a structured path from beginner to advanced.
YouTube
Vietnamese Pronunciation
Course
Free YouTube playlist with short Vietnamese pronunciation drills on tones, vowels, consonants, and sound combinations for beginner practice.
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.