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17 Minute Languages
Browser-based Vietnamese course with short daily drills, native audio, grammar help, and Northern and Southern variants from A1 to C2.
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 1
Short Southern Vietnamese listening episodes with natural native speech, everyday topics, and transcripts for intermediate learners.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Vietnamese sentence notes and Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening, and shadowing.
YouTube
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons from native teachers covering pronunciation, everyday vocabulary, grammar, dialogues, and listening practice.
Mobile App
Memrise
A freemium Vietnamese app with spaced vocabulary review, native-speaker videos, short lessons, and AI-supported speaking practice.
Website
Wordwall Exercises
Free Wordwall games and quizzes for drilling beginner Southern Vietnamese vocabulary, everyday phrases, sentences, and listening.
Website
Glossika
A web course for Northern and Southern Vietnamese using native audio, sentence drills, recording, dictation, and daily spaced review.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese: Saigon
An iPhone and Apple Watch app for Southern Vietnamese, with structured lessons, vocabulary cards, native audio, and tone and listening drills.
Website
Speak Saigon
Southern-first browser course with short units, tone scoring, spaced review, games, stories, and AI conversation practice.
Website
Vietphonics
Free browser audio drills for hearing Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon pronunciation.
Social Media
Vitamese
Free Instagram reels and posts for Southern Vietnamese pronunciation, everyday phrases, podcast clips, and practical culture notes.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with beginner lessons on tones, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and slow listening stories.
YouTube
Viet Language
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese from a Saigon native, covering beginner grammar, everyday vocabulary, and pronunciation.
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.