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.
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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VietSyllables
Free website with an interactive Vietnamese syllable chart, tone controls, minimal pairs, and Northern plus Southern audio for pronunciation practice.
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
Website for learning Southern Vietnamese through unscripted listening podcasts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and beginner flashcards.
SVFF
Course Tutoring
SVFF is a Southern Vietnamese school with structured levels, 1-on-1 lessons, free YouTube samples, and a paid podcast app with transcripts and quizzes.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese grammar through tagged example sentences with audio, spaced review, and a step by step study order.
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with short Vietnamese listening videos sorted by level and accent, giving you graded input for beginner to intermediate study.
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Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Tieng Viet Oi
YouTube channel with free Vietnamese lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, and culture, plus links to paid classes.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons with clear beginner topics, plus linked blog practice, quizzes, a paid pronunciation course, and tutoring.
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 5 Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and audio on both sides for sentence review, shadowing, and dictation practice.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
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.
Flashcardo
Flash Cards
Free Vietnamese flashcards by topic and top 1,000 words, with audio, printable PDFs, video decks, and an online spaced repetition study mode.
Langi
Flash Cards Readers
Southern Vietnamese learning website with graded short stories, audio dictation, and spaced repetition review to build reading and listening step by step.
Street Interviews
Comprehensible Input
Short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles, useful for real-world listening and everyday vocabulary.
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.