Book
Basic Vietnamese
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese textbook from MSU with pronunciation units, 15 themed chapters, audio, exercises, and culture notes for self-study.
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.
Showing 38 resources filtered by Northern and Course. View all resources.
Mobile App
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Mobile App
Lingora
Course Flash Cards
Beginner Vietnamese app with 500 sentence-based lessons, word-by-word notes, quizzes, and vocab review in both Northern and Southern audio.
Website
EchoMeo
Course Flash Cards Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese vocabulary practice with gamified lessons, flashcards, listening quizzes, and audio in Northern, Central, and Southern accents.
Mobile App
PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
Website
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Website with structured Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Course Flash Cards
Free SEAsite website with 20 spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, quizzes, and extra culture pages for early learners.
Website
Loecsen
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website for beginners with A1 lessons, native audio, travel phrases, short tests, and clear notes on tones and everyday usage.
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
vietnamesewithhue
Course
Free beginner YouTube lessons in Northern Vietnamese that teach core grammar, sentence patterns, and everyday topics through short videos.
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.
Podcast
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Vietnamese learning podcast with short audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
Mobile App
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for VietnamesePod101 lessons with audio and video courses, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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.
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.