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Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation help, study tips, and a level-based resource list for beginners through intermediate learners.
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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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.
Social Media
Learn Vietnamese With Nhạt
Free Instagram reels for beginner-friendly Northern Vietnamese practice, with quick clips on pronunciation, tones, and everyday phrases.
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese practice with short listening videos and podcasts, plus pronunciation lessons and culture-focused content.
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Travel-focused Vietnamese phrasebook app with Northern and Southern audio, flashcards, and quizzes to build useful beginner vocabulary.
YouTube
Everyday Viet
Free YouTube channel with beginner Vietnamese lessons on Southern pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and everyday phrases you can repeat aloud.
Go Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese lessons, pronunciation help, and story based listening linked to Go Vietnamese classes and transcripts.
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Tieng Viet Oi
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with online and in-person classes, plus free videos and podcasts for self-study across beginner to upper-intermediate levels.
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons focused on Vietnamese pronunciation, with drills for tones, vowels, consonants, reading, and some Northern Southern accent comparisons.
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.
DinoLingo
Course
Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
A Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with short dialogue lessons, transcripts, vocab review, and practice activities on Annie's site.
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
A Tiny Book About Numbers
Readers
Pocket-size bilingual board book that teaches counting from 1 to 10 in Vietnamese and English through tropical fruit words and dialect notes.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
Go Vietnamese
Vietnamese learning podcast with natural stories, slow and normal versions, and free transcripts for learners focused on Central and Southern accents.
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
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.