Resources
Welcome to the Resources Sheet, resources are categorised into "Learning" Vietnamese and "Acquiring" Vietnamese.
IMPORTANT: I'm moving most of the learning resources to Betonamgo - A curated list of Vietnamese language learning resources
Learning Vietnamese
Alphabet
- Flexiclasses Vietnamese Learning Blog: All about Vietnamese alphabet, learning how to read and write here.
- Vietnamese Alphabet by MyLanguages.org: Yet another Vietnamese alphabet guide.
Vocabulary
- Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers - About 1000 words
- Learn Vietnamese with colored tones 1184 cards - There are also Vietnamese example sentence!
- Basic Vietnamese Anki Deck - The deck from r/learnvietnamese
- Vietnamese Optimized Anki Deck
- 7700 Word Vietnamese Anki Deck
- Vietnamese Idiomatic Expressions - Vietnamese "Idiomatic Expressions"
Pronunciation
Grammar
- Vietnamese : An Essential Grammar by Binh Nhu Ngo
- seahorse viet grammar's archive: Many grammar points but without sorting.
- Learning Vietnamese Grammar with TVO: A grammar series in Northern dialect made by Tieng Viet Oi.
- Vietnamese Grammar by Soi - Anki Deck: An Anki deck for learning Vietnamese Grammar. There are audios for different dialects!
Chữ Nôm
- CLC Phiên dịch Hán Nôm - CLC Sino-Nom Translator
- ChuNom.org: There are some Chữ Nôm course offered by ChuNom.org
- Nom Foundation: an American nonprofit agency for Han Nom preservation.
- VNY2K: An online dictionary dedicated to Han Nom etymology
- VNY2K - Tu nguyen: Same as above, with more detailed etymological explanations.
- Chữ Nôm Dictionary - Chữ Nôm Dictionary converted by Marsh Nguyễn for Yomitan/Yomitan. The data comes from https://chunom.org/ The dictionary contains 1,569 entries.
Acquire Vietnamese
Movies & TV Shows
You just have to click one of the links here and it will directs you to the Vietnamese movie collection (Instead of the website's main page).
- FPTPlay: Watching Vietnamese movies for free, you just have to use your Google or Facebook account.
- TV360: Same as above.
- VieChannel: There are a lot of gameshows in this channel.
- ※ Vietnamese Movie Recommendation
Novels and Literary Texts
Truyện ngắn
- Văn học trẻ - Truyện ngắn
- Báo Nhân Dân - Mục truyện ngắn
- Hội nhà văn - Truyện ngắn
- Wikisource Vietnamese Short Stories Collection
- Truyen Voz
- 1000 cuốn sách vang bóng một thời - old and copyright expired books
Sách/Tiểu thuyết
Audiobooks & Podcasts
- Fonos - You can listen to any book's first chapter for free on their Youtube channel
Vietnamese Forums
- VOZ - one of the largest Technology forums in Vietnamese.
- TVE-4U - a forum dedicated to books, novels and literary texts
News
- VTVNews
- Vietnamnet
- Dân trí
- VNExpress
- Tạp chí Tia sáng: A Vietnamese science & technology magazine.
Dictionaries
Yomitan
Yomitan, a browser add-on that allows you to look up Japanese (and Vietnamese) words easily.
Online
- Lac Viet VI-EN
- ※ Lac Viet VI-VI - Recommended for intermediate learners, there are also examples.
- VNEDICT Online
- Youglish Vietnamese - Sentences sourced from YouTube video subtitles. This is a great tool to improve your pronunciation, as the words will be said by native speakers speaking naturally.
- Forvo: Search for a word and hear it pronounced by a native speaker.
E-Reader Dictionaries
Other Tools
- ※ Anki (Windows, Mac and Linux) - Spaced repetition flashcard program. A must have. It is tricky to use at first. You can install the app on mobile too but for iOS it cost $29.
- Unikey: Vietnamese Keyboard (Windows). For Linux users please install ibus-bamboo.
- Using a Vietnamese Keyboard - How to type using a Vietnamese Keyboard.
Other Resource Pages
- More Vietnamese - Vietnamese Learning Blog written by Elisabeth Ruth (Thảo) - Not really a curated guide but it's worth reading.
- Refold Vietnamese - Refold Roadmap for Vietnamese Learning.
- gratisglobal vietnamese learning resources
- r/learnvietnamese's resources
- Dạy tiếng Việt - VOV - Vietnamese Lessons from VOV.
- Tiếng Việt Thực Hành - Giữ gìn tiếng mẹ đẻ ở hải ngoại! - Vietnamese Learning Website for Vietnamese living overseas
- YouTube & Netflix mining guide - Youtube and Netflix mining guide with asbplayer
"Other"
- Report on 1000 hours of active Vietnamese practice
- Why You Still Don't Understand Your Target Language - Great video for getting motivated to immerse more.