Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level A
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 16 daily life lessons, bilingual English Vietnamese explanations, review units, culture notes, and free audio.
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
Nemo
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for learning useful Vietnamese words and travel phrases with native audio, offline study, and a record-and-compare pronunciation tool.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Memrise Master List
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 7,771 English to Vietnamese cards compiled from Memrise courses, with course tags and audio on roughly 1,000 cards.
YouTube
SVFF
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with beginner lessons, pronunciation practice, role-plays, songs, and podcast-style videos.
Mobile App
Falou
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese through short real-life dialogues, speech practice, pronunciation feedback, and review lessons.
Book
Vietnamese in a Flash Kit Volume 1
Flash Cards
A boxed flashcard kit with 448 Vietnamese words and phrases, sample sentences, tone marks, and a booklet for themed vocabulary study.
Website
Hello World
Flash Cards Dictionary
Free Vietnamese learning website with picture vocabulary, flashcards, songs, and simple word games that work well for beginners and kids.
Website
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
Website for learning Southern Vietnamese through unscripted listening podcasts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and beginner flashcards.
Book
Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 3
Interactive sound board book with six Vietnamese-English children's songs, native audio, and repeat listening for babies and toddlers.
Website
r/learnvietnamese
Reddit community where Vietnamese learners ask questions, swap study resources, and get informal help with grammar, vocab, and tones.
Book
My First Book of Vietnamese Words
Readers
Bilingual ABC picture book that teaches everyday Vietnamese words with rhymes, cultural notes, and free online audio for young beginners.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 2
Course
Second book in a Southern Vietnamese beginner series with comic-style lessons, glossaries, short grammar notes, and companion audio.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school with online and Hanoi-based lessons, offering 1-on-1 or small group classes with native teachers and trial lessons.
Website
Forvo
Dictionary
Crowdsourced pronunciation website where you can look up Vietnamese words, hear native speaker recordings, compare voices, and save audio.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Vietnamese learning podcast with short audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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.