Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 1
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video.
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 36 resources filtered by Course and Southern. View all resources.
Mobile App
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
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.
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.
Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
Social Media
Vietramese
Course
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese: Saigon
Course Flash Cards
iPhone and Apple Watch app for Southern Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City, with lessons, flashcards, tone practice, and offline study.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 2
Course
Second book in a Southern Vietnamese beginner series with comic-style lessons, glossaries, short grammar notes, and companion audio.
Website
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 2
Course
Free Live Lingua page for FSI Vietnamese Volume 2 with the student text, lesson audio, downloads, and a recorder for drill-based self-study.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
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.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
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.
Website
Flexi Classes
Course Tutoring
Website for live Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, with small group or 1-on-1 classes any time of day plus downloadable lesson materials.
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.
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.