Website
Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
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.
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Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck built from Elementary Vietnamese flashcards with Northern audio, English meanings, and example sentences for basic vocab study.
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
Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
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.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
A YouTube channel from a Vietnamese school with free lesson videos on pronunciation, tones, and practical Vietnamese for daily life.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation help, study tips, and a level-based resource list for beginners through intermediate learners.
Anki Deck
Memrise Optimized
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with nearly 6,000 Northern Vietnamese vocabulary cards, mostly with native audio, for daily spaced repetition study.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact phrasebook for beginners that teaches 100 core Vietnamese words and patterns to build useful travel phrases, with MP3 audio and both major dialects.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,096 Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, color coded tones, a tone chart, and audio on most cards for self study.
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.
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
Vietnamese Language Essentials
Flash Cards
Free Anki shared deck for building essential Vietnamese vocabulary and phrases with spaced repetition study you can review at your own pace.
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.