Let's Learn Vietnamese Kit
Flash Cards
A boxed Vietnamese starter kit with 64 illustrated flashcards, a wall chart, and online audio to build basic words and pronunciation. ISBN-13 9780804846967.
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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Anki Deck
Learn Vietnamese with Colored Tones
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese vocabulary with tone-based colors, plus audio on many cards to support review, listening, and tone awareness.
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese practice with short listening videos and podcasts, plus pronunciation lessons and culture-focused content.
Mango Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese lessons on the web with short dialogues, native audio, grammar and culture notes, and voice comparison for speaking practice.
Drops
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Gamified app for learning Vietnamese words and common phrases through 5 minute picture based drills, audio, reviews, and optional speaking practice.
Learn Vietnamese Language
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner to intermediate Vietnamese with Northern audio, short lessons, phrasebook, alphabet practice, grammar notes, and quizzes.
Vietnamese English Dictionary+
Dictionary
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with word lookup, example sentences, audio pronunciation, favorites, and flashcards for quick review.
Podcast
Vietnamese / English Level 1
Flash Cards
Beginner audio vocabulary drills with English prompts and Vietnamese answers, grouped into long tracks for repeat listening on the go.
Website
I Love Languages
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 18 beginner Vietnamese lessons, vocabulary tables, short grammar notes, common phrases, and audio for word and phrase practice.
Website
Bài Tập Tiếng Việt Online
Free self-check quizzes for beginner Vietnamese, with short tests for vocabulary, reading, listening, and basic sentence building.
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning the Vietnamese alphabet, tone marks, and letter sound contrasts through quick spaced repetition reviews.
AmazingTalker
Tutoring
Website where you book live 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, with short trial classes, flexible scheduling, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Continuing Vietnamese
Course
Intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 10 structured lessons, Hanoi-based dialogues, formal readings, drills, and about 10 hours of audio. ISBN-13 9780804857628.
Beginners’ Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Teach Yourself Vietnamese book with short lessons, practice exercises, study planners, and free companion audio in the Library app. ISBN-13 9781399819190.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation help, study tips, and a level-based resource list for beginners through intermediate learners.
Website
Vietnamese Idioms
Phrasebook
Free forum page with Vietnamese idioms grouped by theme and matched with English meanings or similar sayings for quick reading practice.
Tiếng Việt 123 Level B1
Course
Intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 8 themed lessons, 2 review units, and downloadable audio in both Northern and Southern accents. ISBN-13 9786043459579.
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.