Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners 2

Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners 2 is a paperback reader from Tuttle Publishing built around 40 traditional Vietnamese folktales. It is best for beginners to intermediate learners who want more reading practice with an English safety net, including heritage learners who can understand some Vietnamese but want structured support.

Each story is presented in Vietnamese with an English translation, so you can read for meaning without stopping every line to look things up. After the stories, you get vocabulary support plus cultural notes and discussion questions or exercises that work well for self study or a class.

Audio is a big part of the package. Tuttle provides free online MP3 recordings by native speakers, available on their downloadable audio page, which you can stream track by track or download as a zip file.

What it does not do is teach conversation step by step. There is no speaking feedback, and it is not a graded reader series that ramps difficulty in a controlled way, so absolute beginners may still want a separate course for pronunciation, tones, and core grammar.