Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Fluently, Easily and Effectively
Course
Free Spotify album with beginner Vietnamese audio lessons you can play in order for self-study, with a simple listen-and-repeat approach.
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
Vkids Puzzle
Kids app that teaches the 29-letter Vietnamese alphabet through jigsaw puzzles, animated pictures, and native voice-over for early vocabulary practice.
Social Media
VietKIMese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese learning posts from Kim, centered on Southern accent pronunciation and quick everyday language tips.
Book
Periplus Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket paperback Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000+ entries, plus short grammar and pronunciation notes for travel.
Book
Sunita at the Zoo
Readers
English Vietnamese picture book about a zoo trip for ages 3 to 6, with simple parallel text and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
Podcast
Learn Authentic Vietnamese
Short Vietnamese podcast for intermediate learners, with everyday topics, full transcripts, and vocabulary lists to build natural listening skills.
Book
Welcome Lunar New Year
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches the 12 con giáp, simple Tết greetings, and basic word-picture reading.
Book
Vietnamese Essential Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 30,000 translations, short grammar notes, and a compact format for daily study.
Website
Elementary Vietnamese Grammar
Free blog that republishes 30 Vietnamese grammar units with English explanations, examples, and written practice on easily confused forms.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Social Media
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course
Instagram page for a Vietnamese school that shares quick tips and connects you to paid online or Hanoi-based lessons with native teachers.
Website
Vietnamese Accent Marks
Free website that restores Vietnamese diacritics in unaccented text, lets you correct words manually, and can remove accents again.
Website
Learn101
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese website with step by step lessons on the alphabet, numbers, phrases, vocabulary, grammar, and basic audio support.
Book
Pinocchio and the Real Boys
Readers
Vietnamese-English picture book retelling Pinocchio, with page-by-page text and optional PENpal audio to hear the story in both languages.
Mobile App
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
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.