Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level B1
A 272-page B1 Vietnamese textbook with 8 themed lessons, 2 reviews, exercises, and downloadable Northern and Southern audio.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Mobile App
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Travel phrasebook app with 1,000+ Vietnamese phrases, Northern and Southern native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, and quizzes.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation guides, practical study advice, and a level-organized directory covering Northern and Southern resources.
Language School
Go Vietnamese
Da Nang Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes online or in person, with a practical focus on speaking and pronunciation.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
A 10-lesson intermediate Vietnamese textbook with Hanoi dialogues, formal readings, drills, cultural notes, and 10 hours of native audio.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Language Phonology Course
Free 62-page Hanoi Vietnamese phonology drill book with five audio tracks for practicing vowels, consonants, spelling patterns, and tones.
Website
Vietlingo
Website with dialect-based Vietnamese courses, native-teacher lessons, exercises, and AI practice for Southern, Northern, or Central speech.
Website
EchoMeo
Vietnamese practice website with gamified vocabulary drills, graded readings, TTS audio, AI chat, and three regional pronunciation options.
Podcast
Levion
Free Northern Vietnamese podcast with short dialogues and slow stories, including transcripts, English translations, and vocabulary lists for beginners.
YouTube
vietnamesewithhue
A small free YouTube lesson series for beginners covering basic phrases, pronouns, sentence patterns, numbers, food, and everyday questions.
Language School
LTL Language School
Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes in Hanoi and Saigon, with Northern and Southern dialect immersion options.
YouTube
Lazy Vietnamese
Free YouTube channel with slow Northern Vietnamese stories, visual context, and captions for listening and vocabulary practice.
Book
Elementary Vietnamese
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, grammar drills, cultural notes, and 8 hours of native audio plus printable flashcards.
Mobile App
PhoSpeak
A mobile Northern Vietnamese course with teacher videos, native audio, tone feedback, exercises, and captioned stories for daily conversation.
Website
Flexi Classes
Live Southern Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, bookable 24/7 in small groups or 1-on-1, with structured levels and PDFs.
Website
VietSyllables
Free interactive Vietnamese pronunciation site with a syllable chart, tone controls, minimal-pair drills, and Northern, Southern, and Huế audio.
Website
Langiri
Graded Vietnamese video library with native speakers, captions, level filters, and separate Northern and Southern dialect choices.
Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level A
A beginner Vietnamese coursebook with 16 daily-life lessons, bilingual explanations, review units, culture notes, and free two-dialect audio.
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.