YouTube
SVFF
YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with beginner lessons, pronunciation practice, role-plays, songs, and podcast-style videos.
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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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.
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.
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.
Mobile App
Drops
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Gamified app for learning Vietnamese words and common phrases through 5 minute picture based drills, audio, reviews, and optional speaking practice.
Social Media
Viet with Quinn
Instagram account for short Vietnamese study sessions and casual exposure. Best used as a light supplement, not a full course.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Mobile App
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Podcast
VTM 2
Paid Southern Vietnamese listening podcast with short unscripted episodes, plus transcripts and related videos and articles on the Vitamese site.
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.
Podcast
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with free sample lessons and a paid app that adds transcripts, quizzes, and level-based audio lessons.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of Vietnamese sentence cards with short to medium lines and audio on both sides, made for daily listening, reading, and shadowing practice.
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.