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Preply
A website for finding and booking live 1-on-1 Vietnamese tutors by price, availability, specialty, and accent, with paid trial lessons.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Core 1k
Free Anki deck with about 1,000 Vietnamese words, translated example sentences, course tags, and Northern and Southern audio.
Website
Langi
Southern Vietnamese website with graded stories, native audio, dictation, and spaced repetition for reading, listening, and vocabulary.
YouTube
Actually Understand Vietnamese
YouTube channel with graded Vietnamese comprehensible input videos, mainly in a Southern accent, using stories, visuals, and subtitles.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Vietnamese sentence notes and Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening, and shadowing.
Website
VietSyllables
Free interactive Vietnamese pronunciation site with a syllable chart, tone controls, minimal-pair drills, and Northern, Southern, and Huế audio.
Social Media
Vietramese
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
A free Southern Vietnamese course book with 10 structured units, intensive pronunciation practice, grammar drills, and about 15 hours of audio.
Book
Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner textbook with nine pronunciation sections, 15 practical chapters, native-speaker audio, grammar, culture notes, and exercises.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Free Anki deck with 700+ Vietnamese grammar notes, example sentences, English explanations, textbook tags, and three regional TTS tracks.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Free Anki deck with about 1,100 Vietnamese word and phrase cards, tone colors, a tone chart, tags, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Book
Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar
Editors' Choice
An English-language guide to modern Vietnamese grammar, with clear examples, Hanoi-based usage, and audio for pronunciation.
Website
FluentSaigon
A browser-based Southern Vietnamese phrase and vocabulary trainer with native Saigon audio, cheat sheets, and randomized quizzes.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese with Annie
Mobile app with short Southern Vietnamese dialogues, bilingual breakdowns, vocabulary review, translated scripts, and practice exercises.
Mobile App
Lingora
Sentence-based Vietnamese app with 500 A1 lessons, spaced review, grammar notes, AI practice, and separate Northern and Southern courses.
Mobile App
Podglot
A freemium Vietnamese app with native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, phrase packs, quizzes, and an AI tutor for Northern and Southern accents.
Social Media
VTV
Free TikTok clips for quick Vietnamese study, with short phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, and bite sized review you can fit into a daily scroll.
Website
Language Survival Kit Modules
Free Vietnamese phrasebook website with English prompts, Vietnamese script, pronunciation guides, audio, and printable material for quick reference.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section is the structured side of this website. Apps, textbooks, Anki and flash card decks, online courses, language schools, and dictionaries — the resources actually built to teach you Vietnamese in an organised way. Each resource has a short summary, pros and cons, and a note on who it fits best.
No resource is great at everything. Some are strong for reading and weak for listening. Some have great content trapped behind a clunky app. Some only cover one dialect well. The pros and cons on each page call these things out, so you find out before you've spent a weekend on something that wasn't going to work for you anyway.
Everything here is tagged by dialect, format, cost, and the skills it trains. The filters cut a long list down fast: pick Northern or Southern, free or paid, mobile or desktop, listening-focused or grammar-focused, and most of the noise disappears.
FAQ
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese media once you can recognize basic words and want to train your ear on natural speech.
We look at whether a resource teaches Vietnamese in a useful way, whether the audio quality is acceptable, and whether it is still available and maintained. Each entry has a short review with pros and cons and a note on who it suits best. We do not include resources that are abandoned, broken, or that have not enough valueable content.
Nothing beats a good teacher. Classes — online or face-to-face — give you live feedback on pronunciation, real conversation practice, and someone who can answer the questions a textbook cannot. If classes are not an option, the next best setup is one main course or app to give you structure, a vocabulary review tool such as an Anki deck, and a dictionary you keep open while studying. Our beginner's guide walks through this in detail, with specific picks for both Northern and Southern learners.
No. Some learning resources are completely free, like Anki decks and many online dictionaries. Some are paid, like most textbooks and language schools. And some are freemium, like apps that give you a beginner course for free but charge for the full content. Use the cost filter to narrow the catalog down to free, freemium, or paid resources only.
Yes. Each resource is tagged with the dialect or dialects it covers. Use the dialect filter to see only Northern, Central or Southern resources. Some entries are dialect-neutral, like dictionaries and grammar references, because written Vietnamese is the same nationwide. If you are unsure which dialect to learn, our Northern and Southern dialect guides explain the differences and how to choose.