Book
Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner textbook with nine pronunciation sections, 15 practical chapters, native-speaker audio, grammar, culture notes, and exercises.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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YouTube
VietnamesePod101
A free YouTube library of short Vietnamese lessons on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and culture, mainly for beginners.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Vietnamese course app with structured lessons, vocabulary games, grammar drills, AI role-play, custom lessons, and a built-in translator.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Free Anki deck for Northern Vietnamese pronunciation with audio, images, spelling guides, and minimal-pair drills for core sounds.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons on everyday Southern Vietnamese, with clear explanations of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and songs.
Mobile App
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with 500,000+ entries, translation, text-to-speech pronunciation, and picture-based word review.
Book
Vietnamese Flash Cards Kit
A boxed set of 200 Vietnamese flash cards with a 32-page guide and native-speaker audio for vocabulary and pronunciation practice.
Book
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary
Pocket visual dictionary with 3,000 themed Vietnamese words and phrases, transliterations, indexes, photos, and native-speaker audio.
Website
Vietnamese Phrases
A free bilingual phrase list with 100+ Vietnamese greetings, everyday expressions, travel questions, and basic conversation lines.
Social Media
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
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
Language Survival Kit Modules
Free Vietnamese phrasebook website with English prompts, Vietnamese script, pronunciation guides, audio, and printable material for quick reference.
Mobile App
Mango Languages
A self-paced Vietnamese app with conversation lessons, native audio, grammar and culture notes, spaced review, and voice comparison.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 Northern-dialect lessons, native audio, reading practice, flashcards, and AI pronunciation feedback.
Book
Tuttle Compact Vietnamese Dictionary
A two-way Vietnamese-English print dictionary with 25,000 entries, example sentences, idioms, grammar notes, and a pronunciation guide.
Book
Tiếng Việt Nâng Cao Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 2
An upper-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 10 themed lessons, 2 reviews, practical readings, vocabulary, grammar, and skills practice.
Mobile App
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through text, voice, video calls, live rooms, and corrections.
Mobile App
Drops
Drops teaches Southern-accented Vietnamese vocabulary and common phrases through five-minute visual games, native audio, quizzes, and spaced review.
About the Library
The Library 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
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add 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, the Library is a mix. Some 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.