Book
Do Unicorns Wear Áo Dài Too?
Readers
Bilingual board book for ages 2 to 6 that teaches color words in English with Vietnamese translations through unicorns wearing áo dài.
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
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning the Vietnamese alphabet, tone marks, and letter sound contrasts through quick spaced repetition reviews.
Website
Vietphonics
Free pronunciation practice site with audio drills for Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon.
Book
Mini Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000 entries, romanized Vietnamese, and a small format for travel or study.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Practice Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing everyday Vietnamese words and short phrases through spaced repetition and steady vocabulary practice.
Mobile App
Ultimate Lac Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
English Vietnamese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with word lookup, examples, pronunciation, bookmarks, grammar content, and daily vocabulary.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
Book
Tuttle Compact Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Compact Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 25,000 entries, parts of speech, idioms, sample sentences, and a pronunciation guide.
Mobile App
italki
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 lessons with tutors, messaging teachers, and joining online language classes from your phone.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 1
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video.
YouTube
How to Speak with a Southern Vietnamese Accent
Free YouTube lesson on Saigon-style pronunciation with clear Southern sound changes and short example drills for accent practice.
YouTube
Go Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese lessons, pronunciation help, and story based listening linked to Go Vietnamese classes and transcripts.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Blog
Your Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with short grammar lessons, practical how to say posts, and simple tools for typing and number practice.
Social Media
Vitamese
Instagram page from Vitamese with Southern Vietnamese reels, podcast clips, pronunciation help, and short culture posts for everyday practice.
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.