Podcast
SVFF
Short Southern Vietnamese lessons built around everyday dialogues, with vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and guided listening practice.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Podcast
VTM 2
Paid Southern Vietnamese podcast with short, unscripted talks by a native speaker, plus transcripts for intermediate listening practice.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons and slow true stories for beginners, with full transcripts for all 12 story episodes.
Website
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese website with free lessons, audio and quizzes, plus a paid pronunciation course and live online tutoring.
Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level B1
A 272-page B1 Vietnamese textbook with 8 themed lessons, 2 reviews, exercises, and downloadable Northern and Southern audio.
Website
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese website with graded podcast transcripts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and optional paid materials.
Podcast
VTM 1
Short Southern Vietnamese listening episodes with natural native speech, everyday topics, and transcripts for intermediate learners.
Website
Vietphonics
Free browser audio drills for hearing Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon pronunciation.
Website
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 2
Free website for FSI Vietnamese Volume 2, pairing five Southern Vietnamese lessons with audio, downloadable text, drills, and a voice recorder.
Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Six free beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese vowels, consonants, tone marks, pronunciation, and numbers through short audio drills.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese with Annie
A Southern Vietnamese podcast library with short dialogues, English breakdowns, transcripts, vocabulary review, and online practice.
YouTube
Street Interviews
Seven short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles for real-world listening practice.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
Website
Flashcardo
Free Vietnamese vocabulary flashcards with topic decks, 1,000 common words, audio, quizzes, printable PDFs, and online spaced repetition.
Podcast
Go Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese podcast with natural stories, slow and normal audio, transcripts, and exposure to Da Nang and Southern accents.
Website
LingoHut
Free website with 125 five-minute Vietnamese vocabulary lessons, audio, flashcards, and simple games for everyday words and phrases.
YouTube
Langiri
A free YouTube channel with short Vietnamese input videos from native Northern and Southern speakers for practical listening practice.
YouTube
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with short listening practice, podcast clips, pronunciation guides, and beginner vocabulary videos.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section 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
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese 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. Some learning resources 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.