Website
Storybooks Speech and Hearing
Readers
Free website with graded Vietnamese storybooks, English text, IPA support, and PDF downloads for beginner reading and pronunciation practice.
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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Website
Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
Book
Colloquial Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with structured lessons, grammar, exercises, and free native-speaker audio for the dialogues and reading passages.
Podcast
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with free sample lessons and a paid app that adds transcripts, quizzes, and level-based audio lessons.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese In A Fun Way
Phrasebook
Free YouTube lessons from a native speaker focused on useful Vietnamese phrases, sentences, and audio you can replay for self-study practice.
Mobile App
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
Social Media
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course
Instagram page for a Vietnamese school that shares quick tips and connects you to paid online or Hanoi-based lessons with native teachers.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Language Pack
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Southern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions, with a Ho Chi Minh City style focus for daily review.
Book
Sunita Makes Friends
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for ages 3 to 6, with a simple story about friendship and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
Book
Vietnamese in a Flash Kit Volume 1
Flash Cards
A boxed flashcard kit with 448 Vietnamese words and phrases, sample sentences, tone marks, and a booklet for themed vocabulary study.
YouTube
Viet Deep Dive
A free YouTube channel with Vietnamese-focused explainer videos for learners who like self-paced study and longer context.
Book
Welcome Lunar New Year
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches the 12 con giáp, simple Tết greetings, and basic word-picture reading.
Website
Hello World
Flash Cards Dictionary
Free Vietnamese learning website with picture vocabulary, flashcards, songs, and simple word games that work well for beginners and kids.
Book
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for kids that introduces Tet Trung Thu traditions with zodiac animals, simple phrases, and cultural details.
Website
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
Website for learning Southern Vietnamese through unscripted listening podcasts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and beginner flashcards.
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
LingQ
Flash Cards Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through read-along audio, saved words, and SRS review, with a library of lessons plus your own imports.
Website
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Website with structured Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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.