Book
Easy Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with short lessons, dialogues, drills, and free audio, designed for self-study or classroom use.
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
Memrise Optimized
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with nearly 6,000 Northern Vietnamese vocabulary cards, mostly with native audio, for daily spaced repetition study.
Book
Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with strong tone and alphabet practice, manga-style dialogues, grammar notes, audio, and printable flashcards.
Website
The Voice Of Vietnam
Course
Free VOV World archive of Vietnamese audio lessons arranged from A2 to C2, useful if you want leveled listening practice with cultural topics.
Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 3
Course
A Grade 3 Vietnamese practice book for heritage learners, with reading, spelling, vocabulary, sentence work, and built-in tests.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 5 Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and audio on both sides for sentence review, shadowing, and dictation practice.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact phrasebook for beginners that teaches 100 core Vietnamese words and patterns to build useful travel phrases, with MP3 audio and both major dialects.
Mobile App
Rosetta Stone
Course Phrasebook
Image-based Vietnamese app with structured lessons, pronunciation feedback, Stories, and a travel Phrasebook for daily self-study.
YouTube
Carter vs Vietnam
YouTube channel in English about learning Vietnamese, with beginner study tips, personal methods, and some everyday life videos from Vietnam.
Book
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.
Mobile App
ProDict Eng Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Android dictionary app for English and Vietnamese lookups with offline access, example sentences, collocations, and English definitions.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,096 Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, color coded tones, a tone chart, and audio on most cards for self study.
Language School
LTL Language School
Course Tutoring
In-person Vietnamese school in Hanoi with 1-on-1, 2-on-1, and small group classes, plus homestay, housing, and social activities for immersion.
Website
Unite For Literacy
Readers
Free children's picture-book website with 400 plus short books, simple text, and audio narration in many languages for early reading practice.
Social Media
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
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.