vietnamese

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

Learning Vietnamese

Guide

• HOW TO START LEARNING VIETNAMESE
• Refold Vietnamese - Refold Roadmap for Vietnamese Learning.
• More Vietnamese - Vietnamese Learning Blog written by Elisabeth Ruth (Thảo) - Not really a curated guide but it’s worth reading.

Other Resources

• gratisglobal vietnamese learning resources
• r/learnvietnamese’s resources

• [Dạy tiếng Việt

  ĐÀI TIẾNG NÓI VIỆT NAM](https://vovworld.vn/vi-VN/day-tieng-viet/316.vov) - Vietnamese Lessons from VOV.

• [Tiếng Việt Thực Hành

  Giữ gìn tiếng mẹ đẻ ở hải ngoại!](https://tiengviethuchanh.wordpress.com/) - Vietnamese Learning Website for Vietnamese living overseas

Course

• Vietnamese courses on Memrise
• Northern Illinois University Vietnamese Language Course
• Learning Vietnamese Language Online (ASU Vietnamese Online Coarse)

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 Anki Decks - Collection of Vietnamese Learning Anki Decks.

Grammar

• ※ Elementary Vietnamese by Binh Nhu Ngo: Excellent reviews from community, you can buy the book directly on Amazon (2003 Revised Version). Here is the Audio CD for the book.
• 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.
• 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: you DON’T HAVE TO LEARN Chu 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

• 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 - one of the largest Technogoly forum in Vietnamese.
• OTOFUN: Primarily about cars and auto.
• Blogtruyen Forum: An Forum for manga lovers, you can also read Vietnamese-translated manga here.
• TVE-4U: For Bookworms

News

• VTVNews
• Vietnamnet
• 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.

• ※ - Yomitan Installation guide for Vietnamese Learning - Learn how to setup the best popup dictionary.

• 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

• VNEDICT Online
• VDict (bilingual) - If you are a beginner, use this. Remember to change the search mode to “Viet - Anh”.
• 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.

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

• 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.