Language School
SVFF
Course Tutoring
SVFF is a Southern Vietnamese school with structured levels, 1-on-1 lessons, free YouTube samples, and a paid podcast app with transcripts and quizzes.
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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Mobile App
haixoai
iPhone app that combines Vietnamese translation, speaking practice, and AI tone feedback for learners who want to use the language out loud.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
Website
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
Video-based Vietnamese listening practice with short graded clips you can filter by level, teacher, and Northern or Southern dialect.
YouTube
Street Interviews
Comprehensible Input
Short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles, useful for real-world listening and everyday vocabulary.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
Website
Flashcardo
Flash Cards
Free Vietnamese flashcards by topic and top 1,000 words, with audio, printable PDFs, video decks, and an online spaced repetition study mode.
Website
Wordwall Exercises
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
Website
VietSyllables
Free website with an interactive Vietnamese syllable chart, tone controls, minimal pairs, and Northern plus Southern audio for pronunciation practice.
Mobile App
Memrise
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through short scenario lessons, spaced review, native speaker video clips, and AI speaking practice.
YouTube
Learn Southern Vietnamese with Thanh
Free YouTube lessons for learning Southern Vietnamese through pronunciation practice, everyday phrases, and listening-based examples.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 1
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video.
Mobile App
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
Social Media
VietKIMese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese learning posts from Kim, centered on Southern accent pronunciation and quick everyday language tips.
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.
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.