Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Essentials
Flash Cards
Free Anki shared deck for building essential Vietnamese vocabulary and phrases with spaced repetition study you can review at your own pace.
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
Are You Sleepy Yet, My Dear?
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese bedtime picture book that teaches simple animal and nighttime words through a gentle story for young children.
Book
Vietnamese Picture Dictionary
Dictionary
Photo dictionary with 1,500 Vietnamese words by topic, example sentences, and free online audio for beginner-friendly vocabulary study.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, tone-colored cards, tags, a tone chart, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Book
VietSpeech
Flash Cards
Free printable VietSpeech PDFs for families with speech cards, a bilingual workbook, and simple guides to help children speak Vietnamese and English.
Book
A Tiny Book About Numbers
Readers
Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
Social Media
VTV
Free TikTok clips for quick Vietnamese study, with short phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, and bite sized review you can fit into a daily scroll.
Website
Vietnamese Headstart2
Course
Free DLIFLC website with beginner Vietnamese lessons on sounds, script, key phrases, and military scenarios, plus audio, quizzes, and certificates.
Website
National Resource Center For Asian Languages
Readers
CSUF's NRCAL website features Vietnamese children's readers and contest-winning storybooks that support early literacy and heritage language reading.
Book
Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
Academic book on Vietnamese tone systems, phonetics, and phonology. Best for advanced learners who want a deep, theory-heavy look at tone.
Website
Vietnamese Learning Games
Flash Cards
Free website with beginner Vietnamese vocabulary games, flashcards, and phrase practice using Southern audio for quick listening and pronunciation drills.
Language School
123Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with in-person classes in Vietnam, live online lessons, and a beginner self-study video course with quizzes and free sample lessons.
Mobile App
Gus on the Go
Flash Cards
Kid-focused Vietnamese app with about 90 beginner words, native audio, and simple mini-games for learning animals, food, colors, numbers, and more.
Website
Vietnamese Course
Course
Free web archive of the Cortina Vietnamese course with one textbook PDF and many audio tracks for self paced study and shadowing.
Website
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.
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.