Website
Pimsleur
Beginner website course with 30 audio-led Northern Vietnamese lessons, reading practice, flashcards, quizzes, and AI pronunciation feedback.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Book
Continuing Vietnamese
A 10-lesson intermediate Vietnamese textbook with Hanoi dialogues, formal readings, drills, cultural notes, and 10 hours of native audio.
YouTube
vietnamesewithhue
A small free YouTube lesson series for beginners covering basic phrases, pronouns, sentence patterns, numbers, food, and everyday questions.
Anki Deck
Learn Vietnamese with Colored Tones
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese vocabulary with tone-based colors, plus audio on many cards to support review, listening, and tone awareness.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Essentials
Free Anki deck with 101 common Vietnamese words and phrases, two-way English cards, images, and audio for beginner vocabulary review.
Book
Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
An academic study of Northern Vietnamese tones, covering tone inventory, acoustic evidence, phonetics, phonology, and syllable structure.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Fundamentals
Free Anki deck for beginners to study basic Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition and build everyday word recognition.
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Core Vocabulary
Free Anki deck with 200+ basic Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, native Hanoi audio, and spaced repetition for daily review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Free Anki deck for Northern Vietnamese pronunciation with audio, images, spelling guides, and minimal-pair drills for core sounds.
YouTube
VietnamesePod101
A free YouTube library of short Vietnamese lessons on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and culture, mainly for beginners.
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.
Website
Glossika
A web course for Northern and Southern Vietnamese using native audio, sentence drills, recording, dictation, and daily spaced review.
Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Free 70-card Anki deck for beginner Northern Vietnamese, with native audio, English meanings, and short example sentences.
YouTube
Tieng Viet Oi
Free YouTube lessons covering practical Vietnamese pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, regional accents, and everyday culture.
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.
Website
Levion
Subscription website with 11 self-paced Vietnamese courses, free lesson previews and level testing, plus small-group and private Zoom classes.
Mobile App
Ling
A freemium Northern Vietnamese app with 200+ bite-sized lessons, native audio, grammar tips, dialogues, and speaking practice.
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.