Book
The Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling The Little Red Hen with parallel text, simple language, and artwork suited to young readers.
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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Language School
Tieng Viet Oi
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with online and in-person classes, plus free videos and podcasts for self-study across beginner to upper-intermediate levels.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
Mobile App
50 Languages
Course Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese with short audio based lessons, everyday phrases, text support, quizzes, and downloadable MP3s for offline study.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Fundamentals
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for beginners to study basic Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition and build everyday word recognition.
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
Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Paid app for learning Vietnamese from YouTube, pasted text, and images with tap-to-lookup tools, AI help, and spaced repetition flashcards.
Mobile App
AmazingTalker
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with tutors, comparing prices and reviews, and joining live classes from your phone.
YouTube
Tieng Viet Oi
YouTube channel with free Vietnamese lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, and culture, plus links to paid classes.
Book
Ellie’s Secret Diary
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese children's book about school bullying, told as a diary story with support notes that help young readers discuss feelings.
Social Media
Sock Teach Vietnamese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese lessons on everyday phrases and slang, useful if you want quick practical language tips in your feed.
Book
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket visual dictionary with 3,000 Vietnamese words and phrases by topic, plus transliteration, indexes, photos, and free native-speaker audio.
Book
Sunita’s Special Day
Readers
Bilingual English-Vietnamese picture book about Halloween for ages 3 to 6, with PENpal audio support for read-along listening and early reading.
Podcast
Teaching Vietnamese is My Hobby
A 6-episode podcast where teacher Gấm Nguyên shares short stories from teaching Vietnamese, plus practical tips on grammar and vocabulary study.
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.
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.