YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from a Vietnamese school covering tones, pronunciation, listening, grammar, and useful everyday phrases.
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
LingoDeer
A structured Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, grammar notes, SRS reviews, speaking practice, and a travel phrasebook.
Mobile App
Preply
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, booking paid 1-on-1 video lessons, messaging teachers, and managing your study schedule.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Vietnamese course app with structured lessons, vocabulary games, grammar drills, AI role-play, custom lessons, and a built-in translator.
Mobile App
Clozemaster
Clozemaster drills Vietnamese vocabulary in context with 3,500+ fill-in-the-blank sentences, spaced review, listening, and AI explanations.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Pocket phrasebook using 100 core words and patterns to build travel phrases, with a mini dictionary, dialect notes, and MP3 audio.
Website
Glossika
A web course for Northern and Southern Vietnamese using native audio, sentence drills, recording, dictation, and daily spaced review.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Free website with 20 beginner spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, grammar notes, exercises, and culture pages.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
Book
Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner textbook with nine pronunciation sections, 15 practical chapters, native-speaker audio, grammar, culture notes, and exercises.
Language School
iSpeak Vietlingo
Hanoi Vietnamese school offering private and group classes online or in person, with practical lessons for daily life, work, and travel.
Mobile App
Lingora
Sentence-based Vietnamese app with 500 A1 lessons, spaced review, grammar notes, AI practice, and separate Northern and Southern courses.
Book
Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar
Editors' Choice
An authoritative reference to modern Vietnamese grammar, with readable explanations, practical examples, and pronunciation audio.
Mobile App
Duolingo
A gamified Vietnamese course with short Northern-dialect lessons that drill vocabulary, sentence patterns, reading, and listening.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
A free podcast feed of short Vietnamese audio and video lessons on conversations, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
Mobile App
VietnamesePod101
VietnamesePod101 mobile app offers short audio and video lessons with transcripts, notes, vocabulary tools, offline study, and progress tracking.
Website
VietnamesePod101
Prefer a ready-made system? Review Northern Vietnamese with native audio, example sentences, and spaced-repetition flashcards tied to structured lessons.
YouTube
Langiri
A free YouTube channel with short Vietnamese input videos from native Northern and Southern speakers for practical listening practice.
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.