Resources

Welcome to the Resources Sheet, resources are categorised into "Learning" Vietnamese and "Acquiring" Vietnamese.

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

• Vietnamese Vocabulary Core 1k by Soi: Vietnamese Core 1K Vocab Anki Deck made by Soi
• Xefjord's Complete Vietnamese - Northern Dialect: The Vietnamese Anki deck from this project.
• Vietnamese Vocabulary Lists: A complete list of basic Vietnamese vocabulary made by VietnamesePod101.

Grammar

• duykhan's guide to Vietnamese Grammar: Yet another Vietnamese grammar guide that doesn't suck. Currently in progress.

• Learning Vietnamese Grammar with TVO: A grammar series in Northern dialect made by Tieng Viet Oi, despite being a Vietnamese learning channel there are many videos made for native speakers.

• Elementary Vietnamese by Binh Nhu Ngo: Excellent reviews from community, I haven't read it myself, you can buy the book directly on Amazon (2003 Revised Version).

• seahorse viet grammar's archive: Many grammar points but without sorting.

• Vietnamese Grammar by Soi: An Anki deck for learning Vietnamese Grammar. There are audios for different dialects!

Chữ Nôm

PS: It's weird to repeat this in the resource section, but you DON'T HAVE TO LEARN Han Nom to be able to speak Vietnamese. Most of the Vietnamese out there aren't able to recognize a single Nom character. But still, there are people who want to learn this so I decided to make Han Nom resource list (It's not completed though).

• 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.

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.

Novels and Literary Texts

Comprehensible Input

• Vietnamese Book Suggestion - Finding real Vietnamese Literature suggestion that might suits you.
• Comprehensible Vietnamese Reading - A collection of Vietnamese free graded readers.

Real Vietnamese literature

Vietnamese short stories and literary texts written for Vietnamese readers.

• Văn học trẻ - Truyện ngắn: Collection of short stories.
• Báo Nhân Dân - Mục truyện ngắn: Collection of short stories from Nhan Dan Newspaper.
• Hội nhà văn - Truyện ngắn: Same as above, but written by people from "Hội nhà văn".
• Wikisource Vietnamese Short Stories Collection: Collection of short stories from Wikisource
• 1000 cuốn sách vang bóng một thời: old Vietnamese books (expired copyright) being digitalized.
• Truyen Voz - Short stories written by Voz forum's users

LN, WM

For those who want to read Light Novel or Web Novel in Vietnamese.

• Hako: Light novels and Web novels translated to Vietnamese
• DTV-Ebook: Download various Romance ebooks.

Manga

• Manga Recommendation: From Japanese Media Recommendation, you can choose the same manga to read on any of these manga reading sites.
• Blogtruyenmoi: A manga reader site made by Ngankvn, most of the mangas here are uploaded by users or scanlated groups.
• Nettruyen: A pretty large manga reader site.
• TruyenQQVN: Another manga (and manhwa, manhua) reading site.

Audiobooks & Podcasts

• Vietnamese Podcast Suggestion: A list of suggestions for which Vietnamese podcasts to listen to.
• TVO Podcast: A Podcast made by TiengVietOi - A Vietnamese learning Youtube channel.
• Podcastindex: Listen to Podcast online without sign-in, not just Vietnamese Podcasts.

Forums

• VOZ: VOZ (other names: Vnoczone, vOz, vOzforums, Vietnam Overclockers Zone) an online forum has been established since 2001, one of the largest Technogoly forum in Vietnamese. Despite the description, this forum has a lot of things to offer, not just Science & Technology.
• OTOFUN: Primarily about cars and auto.
• Blogtruyen Forum: An Forum for manga lovers, you can also read Vietnamese-translated manga here.
• TVE-4U: The forum for book lovers and for downloading Vietnamese books made by volunteers.

News

• VTVNews: Daily news about Vietnam.
• Vietnamnet: News
• Dân trí
• VNExpress
• Tạp chí Tia sáng: A Vietnamese science & technology magazine.

Dictionaries

Yomichan

Yomichan, a browser add-on that allows you to look up Japanese (and Vietnamese) words easily.

• VNEDICT by Paul Denisowski converted by Marsh Nguyễn for Yomichan.
• Chữ Nôm Dictionary Chữ Nôm Dictionary converted by Marsh Nguyễn. The data comes from https://chunom.org/ The dictionary contains 1,569 entries.
• Từ Điển Tiếng Việt Thông Dụng Vie-Vie dictionary converted by Marsh Nguyễn. The dictionary data is from Từ Điển Tiếng Việt Thông Dụng and was sourced from https://github.com/vntk/dictionary/tree/master/data contains 42012 entries.

Online

• Youglish Vietnamese: Youghlish but for Vietnamese.
• Forvo: Search for a word and hear it pronounced by a native speaker.
• VietnamesePod101 Dictionary - A Vietnamese Dictionary made by VietnamesePod101.
• VNEDICT Online
• VDict (bilingual) - If you are a beginner, use this. Remember to change the search mode to "Viet - Anh".

E-Reader Dictionaries

• VNEDICT in stardict format

Other Tools

• ※ Anki (Windows, Mac and Linux) - Spaced repetition flashcard program. A must have. It is tricky to use at first. So please see the Mining section for guides on how to set it up (From the main guide).

• Unikey: Vietnamese Keyboard.

Guides/Methods/Motivation

• More Vietnamese
• AntiMoon - AntiMoon is a site made for English learners. It promotes learning through large amounts of input, also known as immersion. It has good articles on some of the practical methods used in immersion.
• TheMoeWay - Immersion-based Japanese guide, learning Japanese through mass immersion and comprehensible input.
• YouTube & Netflix mining guide - Youtube and Netflix mining guide with asbplayer

"Other"

• Why You Still Don't Understand Your Target Language - Great video for getting motivated to immerse more.