Mobile App
VKids Numbers
Course
Kids app for learning numbers 0 to 9 through tracing, simple math, mini-games, and audio. Better for preschool numeracy than Vietnamese study.
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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Book
Elementary Vietnamese
Course
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, dialogues, grammar, drills, and free audio and flashcards for building core Vietnamese.
YouTube
Lazy Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with slow Vietnamese comprehensible input stories, visuals, and captions to build listening and vocabulary in Northern speech.
Mobile App
Beelinguapp
Readers
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through side by side stories, audio, and quizzes, with word lookup and flashcard review.
Mobile App
VKids ABC
Course
Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.
Website
Phrasebook Tiếng Việt For Beginners
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 100 beginner Vietnamese lessons, short dialogues, and downloadable MP3s for learning everyday phrases and basic sentence patterns.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of Vietnamese sentence cards with short to medium lines and audio on both sides, made for daily listening, reading, and shadowing practice.
Website
VietSyllables
Free website with an interactive Vietnamese syllable chart, tone controls, minimal pairs, and Northern plus Southern audio for pronunciation practice.
Language School
Center for Vietnamese Language for Foreigners
Course
University-based Vietnamese school in Ho Chi Minh City with group classes, online options, test prep, and skill courses for foreigners.
Book
Tuttle Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with romanization and quốc ngữ entries for quick offline word lookup and basic study.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
Book
ABC in Vietnamese: A Bilingual Guide to Vietnamese Cuisine
Readers
Bilingual board book that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through food words, pairing each letter with a Vietnamese dish and simple illustrations.
Mobile App
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.
Book
The Legend of Cuoi, the Man on the Moon
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book retelling the Cuội moon legend for Trung Thu, made for young readers and family read-alouds.
Browser Extension
Language Reactor
Dictionary
Chrome extension for learning Vietnamese with dual subtitles, word lookup, and playback controls while you watch Netflix or YouTube.
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.