Vietnamese Flashcards
Ready-made Vietnamese flashcard decks with native-speaker audio and a built-in spaced-repetition study system. No Anki setup. Read every card free, then one Pro plan opens study with native audio on every deck.
All Vietnamese flashcard sets
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First 200 Vietnamese Words for Kids
Expand your child’s Vietnamese vocabulary with the next 200 most useful words. This collection builds on the basics, adding school items, nature, places, and more, with simple examples for everyday communication.
Learn Vietnamese Fast - Master Essential Words and Phrases for Quick Fluency
Learn Vietnamese Fast - Master Essential Words and Phrases for Quick Fluency flashcards for effective learning with spaced repetition.
Essential Vietnamese Travel Phrases: Tourist Survival Kit
Master 100 must-know Vietnamese phrases for tourists and travelers visiting Vietnam. Perfect for short trips, these beginner-friendly flashcards cover essential vocabulary for ordering food, getting around, shopping, and basic greetings. Learn practical Vietnamese phrases that locals use everyday - no complicated grammar or regional dialects
Practical Vietnamese for Extended Stay: Beyond Tourist Basics
100+ everyday Vietnamese phrases for travelers staying 1-6 months in Vietnam. Build conversational skills for markets, restaurants, transportation, and daily interactions with locals. Learn authentic expressions used in real Vietnamese conversations, with pronunciation guides and practical examples for immediate use in daily situations.
First 100 Vietnamese Words for Kids
Master the most essential Vietnamese words for children! This set covers the first 100 high-frequency words every young learner needs, including family, animals, food, colors, numbers, and more. Designed for easy daily use and rapid vocabulary growth.
Conversational Vietnamese for Expats & Family Connections
100+ authentic Vietnamese expressions for expats living in Vietnam or connecting with Vietnamese family. Master natural, colloquial phrases for social gatherings, family events, and building meaningful relationships. Learn how Vietnamese is actually spoken in homes and social settings, with cultural insights for deeper connections.
Vietnamese Positions and Actions - Everyday Commands and Phrases
Master 50 essential Vietnamese position and action commands used in daily life. Learn how to say sit down, stand up, lie down, turn around, and more with proper Hanoi accent pronunciation guides.
Vietnamese Fruits & Vegetables
Learn the names of the most common fruits and vegetables in Vietnamese! Perfect for young learners, this set uses simple words and examples to make healthy eating and grocery shopping fun and educational.
Vietnamese Animals
Meet the animals in Vietnamese! This flashcard set introduces children to pets, farm animals, and wild creatures with easy words and sentences for everyday conversation and play.
Vietnamese Colors
Discover the colors of the world in Vietnamese! This set teaches basic color words with fun, relatable examples, helping children describe their surroundings and express creativity.
Vietnamese Weather & Seasons
Talk about the weather and seasons in Vietnamese! These flashcards help children describe daily weather, seasons, and nature, making conversations about the world around them easy and engaging.
Master Vietnamese Vowels: Pronunciation Flashcards
Learn to pronounce Vietnamese vowels (a, ă, â, e, ê, i, o, ô, ơ, u, ư ) accurately with interactive flashcards. This set focuses on mastering distinct sounds and essentia l mouth shapes based on authentic native speaker examples. Perfect for beginners aiming for clear Vi etnamese pronunciation and understanding the core sounds of the language.
Which Vietnamese set should you start with?
The decks are built around different reasons to learn Vietnamese. Start with the row that matches yours, then widen.
| You are | Start with | Add next | Why this order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Going for a holiday | Essential Vietnamese Travel Phrases | Master Vietnamese Vowels | Travel cards are whole sentences you can say on day one. Loose vocabulary will not get you a taxi. |
| Staying one to six months | Practical Vietnamese for Extended Stay | Learn Vietnamese Fast | Past the tourist script you need markets, landlords, and repairs, none of which a travel set covers. |
| Living there, or married in | Conversational Vietnamese for Expats and Family | Learn Vietnamese Fast | Family Vietnamese runs on kinship pronouns, and picking the wrong one is the mistake people notice. |
| Building a base from zero | Learn Vietnamese Fast | Vietnamese Positions and Actions | The 200 highest-frequency words carry most ordinary conversation before a specialised set earns its place. |
| Teaching a child | First 100 Vietnamese Words for Kids | First 200 Words, then Animals, Colors, Fruits and Vegetables | The themed sets are short enough to finish, and finishing is what keeps a young learner going. |
| Already being misunderstood | Master Vietnamese Vowels | any set above | Vietnamese has eleven vowels and six tones. A word said on the wrong tone is a different word, not an accent. |
What actually makes Vietnamese hard
The grammar is a relief. No verb conjugation, no tenses to memorise, no plurals, no gendered nouns. A Vietnamese sentence is largely words in the right order, and a beginner can build one on the first day.
The difficulty is almost entirely in the sound. Six tones in the northern dialect and eleven distinct vowels mean that ma, má, mà, mả, mã and mạ are six unrelated words separated only by tone. Reading them off a page teaches you very little, because the difference does not live in the spelling an English speaker is trained to hear.
That is why audio carries more weight here than in most languages. Every card is voiced, so you hear the tone contour rather than infer it from a diacritic, and you can copy it before a wrong habit sets.
Pronouns are the other thing to expect. Vietnamese chooses the words for I and you from the relationship and relative age between the speakers, so em, anh, chị, cô and chú all stand where English uses one word. Getting it right warms people to you immediately. Getting it wrong reads as rude rather than foreign, which is why the family and conversational sets spend real time on it.
Why these Vietnamese flashcards
Native-speaker audio
Hear the correct pronunciation on every card, not just a romanization.
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Preview the flashcards
A free sample drawn from across the Vietnamese sets — hear every card with native audio in the full deck.
- một/ moht /
- one
- ma/ mah (flat, steady voice) /
- ghost - Level tone (ngang). Keep your voice steady, no rise or fall.
- Xin chào/ sin chow /
- Hello
- bớt chút đi/ buht choot dee /
- reduce the price a little
- mẹ/ meh /
- mother
- Thôi, để con làm cho/ toy, day kon lahm chaw /
- Don't worry, let me do it
- ngồi/ ngoy (rising tone) /
- sit (basic position)
- mít/ mit /
- jackfruit
- cá/ ka /
- fish
- Xanh dương/ sanh yuong /
- Blue
- Mưa/ muh-ah /
- Rain
- ư/ oo (lips unrounded, like smiling while saying 'oo') /
- Close to 'oo' but unrounded lips
Frequently asked questions
Do these Vietnamese flashcards include audio?
Yes. Every card has native-speaker audio so you can hear the correct tone and pronunciation, not just read a romanization.
Do I need Anki or any other app?
No. The flashcards and the spaced-repetition study system run right here in your browser and on mobile. There is nothing to install or configure.
Is this a subscription?
Reading is free: every card in every deck is open on the site. Study mode with native audio on every card is part of SubjectCards Pro, one plan at $39.99 a year or $6.99 a month that covers every language and subject, here and in the iPhone app. Cancel anytime.
Which Vietnamese deck should I start with?
Travelers should start with the Essential Vietnamese Travel Phrases set. If you want a broader foundation, Learn Vietnamese Fast covers core words, tones, and sentence patterns.
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