Website
Preply
A website for finding and booking live 1-on-1 Vietnamese tutors by price, availability, specialty, and accent, with paid trial lessons.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Core 1k
Free Anki deck with about 1,000 Vietnamese words, translated example sentences, course tags, and Northern and Southern audio.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Vietnamese sentence notes and Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening, and shadowing.
Website
VietSyllables
Free interactive Vietnamese pronunciation site with a syllable chart, tone controls, minimal-pair drills, and Northern, Southern, and Huế audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Free Anki deck with 700+ Vietnamese grammar notes, example sentences, English explanations, textbook tags, and three regional TTS tracks.
Book
Basic Vietnamese
Free beginner textbook with nine pronunciation sections, 15 practical chapters, native-speaker audio, grammar, culture notes, and exercises.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Free Anki deck with about 1,100 Vietnamese word and phrase cards, tone colors, a tone chart, tags, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Book
Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar
Editors' Choice
An English-language guide to modern Vietnamese grammar, with clear examples, Hanoi-based usage, and audio for pronunciation.
Mobile App
Lingora
Sentence-based Vietnamese app with 500 A1 lessons, spaced review, grammar notes, AI practice, and separate Northern and Southern courses.
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.
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
Podglot
A freemium Vietnamese app with native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, phrase packs, quizzes, and an AI tutor for Northern and Southern accents.
Website
Loecsen
A beginner Vietnamese website with 17 A1 chapters, Northern audio, travel phrases, grammar notes, and interactive listening and speaking tests.
Podcast
Levion
Free Northern Vietnamese podcast with short dialogues and slow stories, including transcripts, English translations, and vocabulary lists for beginners.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
A free podcast feed of short Vietnamese audio and video lessons on conversations, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Free Anki deck with 1,000 basic Vietnamese words, English meanings, Northern IPA, grammar details, and partial Chữ Nôm forms.
YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from a Vietnamese school covering tones, pronunciation, listening, grammar, and useful everyday phrases.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section 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
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese 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. Some learning resources 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.