Book
DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
A free 100-lesson DLI textbook course in Northern Vietnamese, with downloadable PDFs, grammar drills, readings, and matching 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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Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Live Vietnamese school with private and group classes online or in person, an A1-C2 pathway, native teachers, and three dialect options.
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.
Language School
123Vietnamese
Vietnamese language school offering 1-on-1 and small-group classes online or in four Vietnamese cities, with a Northern-accent curriculum.
YouTube
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons on Vietnamese tones, vowels, consonants, and reading, with examples in Northern and Southern accents.
Website
Glossika
A web course for Northern and Southern Vietnamese using native audio, sentence drills, recording, dictation, and daily spaced review.
Website
Vietlingo
Website with dialect-based Vietnamese courses, native-teacher lessons, exercises, and AI practice for Southern, Northern, or Central speech.
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.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
A free podcast feed of short Vietnamese audio and video lessons on conversations, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
Mobile App
Clozemaster
Clozemaster drills Vietnamese vocabulary in context with 3,500+ fill-in-the-blank sentences, spaced review, listening, and AI explanations.
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
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Free Instagram reels and posts from a Vietnamese school, with quick lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and everyday usage.
Book
Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
An academic study of Northern Vietnamese tones, covering tone inventory, acoustic evidence, phonetics, phonology, and syllable structure.
Website
Levion
Subscription website with 11 self-paced Vietnamese courses, free lesson previews and level testing, plus small-group and private Zoom classes.
Podcast
Levion
Free Northern Vietnamese podcast with short dialogues and slow stories, including transcripts, English translations, and vocabulary lists for beginners.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
Book
Elementary Vietnamese
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, grammar drills, cultural notes, and 8 hours of native audio plus printable flashcards.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
A 10-lesson intermediate Vietnamese textbook with Hanoi dialogues, formal readings, drills, cultural notes, and 10 hours of native 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.