Sunita Makes Friends
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for ages 3 to 6, with a simple story about friendship and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support. ISBN-13 9781801373388.
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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Lazy Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with slow Vietnamese comprehensible input stories, visuals, and captions to build listening and vocabulary in Northern speech.
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
Tieng Viet Oi
YouTube channel with free Vietnamese lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, and culture, plus links to paid classes.
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
Duolingo
Course
Gamified mobile app with a free Vietnamese course that teaches beginner words and sentence patterns through short reading and listening drills.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons with clear beginner topics, plus linked blog practice, quizzes, a paid pronunciation course, and tutoring.
MyLanguageExchange
Website that helps you find Vietnamese exchange partners for email, text, voice, or video practice, with search tools and lesson ideas.
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.
Parrot Parrot
Flash Cards
iPhone app for turning Vietnamese text into line by line meanings, full translations, and flashcards you can review right away.
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
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. ISBN-13 9781801373630.
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
Readers
Parallel Vietnamese-English reader with graded newspaper texts, a short story, poems, notes, exercises, photos, and online audio. ISBN-13 9780804858045.
Social Media
Kef Olala
Short TikTok and Instagram videos that teach useful Vietnamese phrases, local wording, and pronunciation through quick, funny everyday examples.
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-based Vietnamese course on Pimsleur's website and app with 30 guided lessons plus reading, flashcards, quizzes, and AI pronunciation practice.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
English–Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Cambridge website for looking up English words with Vietnamese translations, simple definitions, example sentences, and UK and US audio.
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.