Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school with online and Hanoi-based lessons, offering 1-on-1 or small group classes with native teachers and trial lessons.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
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Podcast
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Vietnamese learning podcast with short audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
YouTube
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with short Vietnamese listening videos sorted by level and accent, giving you graded input for beginner to intermediate study.
Mobile App
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for VietnamesePod101 lessons with audio and video courses, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
Mobile App
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Travel-focused Vietnamese phrasebook app with Northern and Southern audio, flashcards, and quizzes to build useful beginner vocabulary.
Website
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
Video-based Vietnamese listening practice with short graded clips you can filter by level, teacher, and Northern or Southern dialect.
Mobile App
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
YouTube
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons focused on Vietnamese pronunciation, with drills for tones, vowels, consonants, reading, and some Northern Southern accent comparisons.
Social Media
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course
Instagram page for a Vietnamese school that shares quick tips and connects you to paid online or Hanoi-based lessons with native teachers.
Mobile App
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
Website
Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese learning website with structured courses, live 1-on-1 lessons, and an AI tutor for Northern, Central, or Southern dialect study.
Podcast
Levion
Vietnamese learning podcast with real dialogues and slow stories featuring native speakers, transcripts, and vocabulary building for beginners.
Website
Vietphonics
Free pronunciation practice site with audio drills for Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
YouTube
Lazy Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with slow Vietnamese comprehensible input stories, visuals, and captions to build listening and vocabulary in Northern speech.
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.