Do Dinosaurs Eat Bun Bo Too?
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Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for toddlers that teaches opposites with dinosaur and bún scenes plus side by side vocabulary. ISBN-13 9781965573044.
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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Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
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Bilingual English Vietnamese board book for kids that introduces Tet Trung Thu traditions with zodiac animals, simple phrases, and cultural details.
ABC in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Guide to Vietnamese Cuisine
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Bilingual board book that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through food words, pairing each letter with a Vietnamese dish and simple illustrations.
123 in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Tour of Vietnam's Famous Cities
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Bilingual board book for toddlers that teaches numbers 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through Vietnam landmarks and simple activities. ISBN-13 9798988987642.
My Sister is a Bother
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Bilingual picture book about sibling feelings, written mainly in English with selected Vietnamese words and lines for family reading practice. ISBN-13 9798988987635.
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.
Carter vs Vietnam
YouTube channel in English about learning Vietnamese, with beginner study tips, personal methods, and some everyday life videos from Vietnam.
Flexi Classes
Course Tutoring
Website for live Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, with small group or 1-on-1 classes any time of day plus downloadable lesson materials.
Blog
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành
Course Readers
WordPress blog with free Vietnamese heritage materials, including preschool to grade 7 workbooks, dialogue books, stories, and review exercises.
Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English folktale reader with 40 stories, facing-page translations, vocabulary, exercises, and free online audio. ISBN-13 9780804855297.
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Star Red Streak
Flash Cards
Free browser-based Vietnamese flashcards with audio and review drills for building everyday vocabulary and practicing pronunciation a little at a time.
Vkids Puzzle
Kids app that teaches the 29-letter Vietnamese alphabet through jigsaw puzzles, animated pictures, and native voice-over for early vocabulary practice.
Beelinguapp
Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through side by side stories, audio, and quizzes, with word lookup and flashcard review.
Viet Kids
Flash Cards
Bilingual kids app with Vietnamese and English flashcards, recorded audio, and mini games for early vocabulary, letters, numbers, and reading.
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. ISBN-13 9781138210714.
Visaurus
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese thesaurus website that lets you search a word and get synonym and near-synonym lists for reading, writing, and vocabulary building.
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Happy Dudu House
Instagram account with short reels and captions about Vietnamese culture, travel, and everyday language for heritage learners and curious beginners.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
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Mobile app for learning Southern Vietnamese through short dialogue lessons with audio, transcripts, English explanations, vocab review, and exercises.
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.
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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.