Website
Flexi Classes
Course Tutoring
Website for live Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, with small group or 1-on-1 classes any time of day plus downloadable lesson materials.
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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Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Short Southern Vietnamese podcast lessons with linked website transcripts, audio examples, quizzes, and optional paid tutoring and pronunciation study.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning blog with bilingual lessons, dialogues, vocab, short readings, and YouTube audio across beginner to advanced levels.
Podcast
VTM 1
Free Southern Vietnamese podcast with short native-speaker episodes, transcripts, and related videos and articles for listening practice.
Book
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of medium-length Vietnamese sentences with English translations and audio on both sides for listening drills, shadowing, and review.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
Mobile app for learning Southern Vietnamese through short dialogue lessons with audio, transcripts, English explanations, vocab review, and exercises.
Podcast
Go Vietnamese
Vietnamese learning podcast with natural stories, slow and normal versions, and free transcripts for learners focused on Central and Southern accents.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account from Vietnamese with Thảo sharing short Vietnamese tips and culture posts, with a clear Southern pronunciation and grammar focus.
Language School
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.
Podcast
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
YouTube
Tieng Viet Oi
YouTube channel with free Vietnamese lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, and culture, plus links to paid classes.
Mobile App
Market Math
Bilingual mobile game where you add grocery totals in Vietnamese market scenes. Good for numbers and market words, not full language study.
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.