Experdize Vietnamese Basic Match - Extra

How to play: the board deals each word twice — once written properly in Vietnamese, once as the way it is said or as its English. Tap a tile, then tap its partner: a pair goes in, pays 100 points, and is said aloud in Vietnamese. Every pair you make without a mistake multiplies the next one, up to five times over, and a wrong guess counts a mistake and puts the run back to nothing — the board ends only when every pair is matched. Clear it and the clock stops; each deck keeps its own best time. Ten decks of 274 words in all.

Vietnamese is written in our own alphabet, and that is exactly the trap: it does not use the letters for the sounds an English reader expects. phở is "fuh", not "foe"; d is a z, x is an s, and đ is the only thing on the page that is really a d. The Letters deck is that lesson on its own, and it is the one to play first. Six tones is the hard one: it deals whole families of one word under all six marks — ma, mà, má, mả, mã, mạ, which are a ghost, but, a cheek, a grave, a code and a rice seedling — and because all six would be written "mah" in English letters, that board is matched against the meaning instead. Read the mark, or you cannot tell them apart at all. A pair already made stays on the board faded; tap it to hear the word again.

If the words are shown but never spoken, this browser has no Vietnamese voice installed. On Windows that is Settings → Time & language → Language & region → Add a language → Tiếng Việt, with the speech component ticked; on macOS and iOS it is System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System Voice → Manage Voices. The board is fully playable read.