Book
Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner textbook with nine pronunciation sections, 15 practical chapters, native-speaker audio, grammar, culture notes, and exercises.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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YouTube
VietnamesePod101
A free YouTube library of short Vietnamese lessons on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and culture, mainly for beginners.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Free Anki deck for Northern Vietnamese pronunciation with audio, images, spelling guides, and minimal-pair drills for core sounds.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Vietnamese course app with structured lessons, vocabulary games, grammar drills, AI role-play, custom lessons, and a built-in translator.
Social Media
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Vietnamese sentence notes and Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening, and shadowing.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 Northern-dialect lessons, native audio, reading practice, flashcards, and AI pronunciation feedback.
Mobile App
Preply
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, booking paid 1-on-1 video lessons, messaging teachers, and managing your study schedule.
Website
Pimsleur
A 30-lesson Northern Vietnamese audio course that gets you recalling and speaking from day one, with flashcards and pronunciation feedback.
Language School
LTL Language School
Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes in Hanoi and Saigon, with Northern and Southern dialect immersion options.
Mobile App
VietnamesePod101
VietnamesePod101 mobile app offers short audio and video lessons with transcripts, notes, vocabulary tools, offline study, and progress tracking.
Website
Vietphonics
Free browser audio drills for hearing Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon pronunciation.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Free Anki deck with 700+ Vietnamese grammar notes, example sentences, English explanations, textbook tags, and three regional TTS tracks.
YouTube
Langiri
A free YouTube channel with short Vietnamese input videos from native Northern and Southern speakers for practical listening practice.
YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from a Vietnamese school covering tones, pronunciation, listening, grammar, and useful everyday phrases.
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.
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.
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.