Website
Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese learning website with structured courses, live 1-on-1 lessons, and an AI tutor for Northern, Central, or Southern dialect 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
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
YouTube
VietnamesePod101
Course
YouTube lessons from VietnamesePod101 that teach beginner Vietnamese through short videos on phrases, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
Website
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-based Vietnamese course on Pimsleur's website and app with 30 guided lessons plus reading, flashcards, quizzes, and AI pronunciation practice.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
Course
Free DLI course books on Live Lingua with downloadable PDFs and matching audio drills for learners who want structured practice in basic Vietnamese.
Language School
Go Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Da Nang based Vietnamese school with in person and online lessons, plus a free podcast and transcripts for extra listening practice.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Language Phonology Course
Course
Free DLI phonology workbook with five audio drill tracks and a built in recorder for practicing Vietnamese sounds, spelling patterns, and tones.
Website
17 Minute Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese website course with short daily lessons, native speaker audio, grammar help, a placement test, and a free trial before purchase.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
Course
Intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 10 structured lessons, Hanoi-based dialogues, formal readings, drills, and about 10 hours of audio.
Website
Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
Mobile App
Pingo AI
Course
AI speaking app for Vietnamese with guided dialogues, roleplay lessons, and pronunciation feedback in both Northern and Southern speech.
Website
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
Language School
LTL Language School
Course Tutoring
In-person Vietnamese school in Hanoi with 1-on-1, 2-on-1, and small group classes, plus homestay, housing, and social activities for immersion.
Language School
123Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with in-person classes in Vietnam, live online lessons, and a beginner self-study video course with quizzes and free sample 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.