Website
Glossika
A web course for Northern and Southern Vietnamese using native audio, sentence drills, recording, dictation, and daily spaced review.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Social Media
Learn Vietnamese With Nhạt
Free Instagram reels for beginner-friendly Northern Vietnamese practice, with quick clips on pronunciation, tones, and everyday phrases.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons on everyday Southern Vietnamese, with clear explanations of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and songs.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Free Anki deck with 700+ Vietnamese grammar notes, example sentences, English explanations, textbook tags, and three regional TTS tracks.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
A Southern Vietnamese blog with bilingual lessons, 45 beginner units, dialogues, grammar notes, vocabulary, stories, and videos.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with beginner lessons on tones, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and slow listening stories.
Mobile App
Podglot
A freemium Vietnamese app with native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, phrase packs, quizzes, and an AI tutor for Northern and Southern accents.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese covering pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short dialogues for everyday listening.
Website
Wordwall Exercises
Free Wordwall games and quizzes for drilling beginner Southern Vietnamese vocabulary, everyday phrases, sentences, and listening.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 4 Medium Long
Free Anki deck of medium-long Vietnamese sentences with English translations and synthetic audio for listening, shadowing, and daily review.
YouTube
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with short listening practice, podcast clips, pronunciation guides, and beginner vocabulary videos.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons and slow true stories for beginners, with full transcripts for all 12 story episodes.
Social Media
Vietramese
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
Website
Langi
Bite-sized Southern Vietnamese stories with native audio. One-tap translation and SRS flashcards turn reading into real vocabulary.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Free Anki deck with short to medium Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and text-to-speech audio for listening and review.
YouTube
Langiri
A free YouTube channel with short Vietnamese input videos from native Northern and Southern speakers for practical listening practice.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Seven short Southern Vietnamese lessons on tones, pronouns, numbers, everyday phrases, and stories, with free linked lesson pages.
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.