Book
Essential Vietnamese Phrasebook & Dictionary
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket Vietnamese book with everyday phrases, a mini dictionary, and short grammar and pronunciation notes for travel and basic conversation.
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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Mobile App
Market Math
Bilingual mobile game where you add grocery totals in Vietnamese market scenes. Good for numbers and market words, not full language study.
Mobile App
Duolingo
Course
Gamified mobile app with a free Vietnamese course that teaches beginner words and sentence patterns through short reading and listening drills.
Book
Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English folktale reader with 40 stories, facing-page translations, vocabulary, exercises, and free online audio.
Mobile App
HelloTalk
Language exchange app for chatting with native speakers by text, voice, and calls, with built-in translation, corrections, captions, and live rooms.
Book
My Sister is a Bother
Readers
Bilingual picture book about sibling feelings, written mainly in English with selected Vietnamese words and lines for family reading practice.
Website
MyLanguages.org
Dictionary Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with basic grammar pages, word lists, common phrases, audio examples, and a short beginner quiz in one place.
Book
10 Nursery Rhymes from Vietnam
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book with 10 traditional rhymes for babies and young kids, good for family readalouds and early word exposure.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Core Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing common Vietnamese words and short phrases with spaced repetition in the Anki app on desktop or mobile.
Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 2
Course
Beginner Vietnamese workbook for children, with alphabet, tone, tracing, reading, and picture-based practice for early literacy.
Book
Listen Listen
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about nature sounds and seasons, with optional TalkingPEN audio that adds narration, sounds, and simple activities.
Website
Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese, English, and French word lookup, with multi-dictionary search, browse lists, and a short English-Vietnamese translator.
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.
YouTube
iSpeak Vietlingo
Free YouTube lessons from a Hanoi Vietnamese school covering pronunciation, common phrases, grammar, and beginner speaking tips.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrasebook
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native-speaker audio, search, and favorites. Free basics plus paid extra phrase packs for travel use.
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.