YouTube
Actually Understand Vietnamese
YouTube channel with graded Vietnamese comprehensible input videos, mainly in a Southern accent, using stories, visuals, and subtitles.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Mobile App
Lingora
Sentence-based Vietnamese app with 500 A1 lessons, spaced review, grammar notes, AI practice, and separate Northern and Southern courses.
Website
FluentSaigon
A browser-based Southern Vietnamese phrase and vocabulary trainer with native Saigon audio, cheat sheets, and randomized quizzes.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Live Vietnamese school with private and group classes online or in person, an A1-C2 pathway, native teachers, and three dialect options.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Language Pack
Free Anki deck of 3,000 Southern Vietnamese sentence cards with English, IPA, Chữ Nôm, and audio for spaced repetition review.
Mobile App
haixoai
iPhone app for Vietnamese speaking practice with live translation, AI conversations, vocabulary review, and tone and pronunciation feedback.
Social Media
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Free Instagram reels and posts from a Vietnamese school, with quick lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and everyday usage.
Book
FSI Vietnamese Familiarization Course
Free 1969 Southern Vietnamese textbook with 12 dialogue-based lessons, grammar notes, oral pattern drills, exercises, and a glossary.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Free Anki deck with 700+ Vietnamese grammar notes, example sentences, English explanations, textbook tags, and three regional TTS tracks.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account sharing short Southern Vietnamese pronunciation and grammar tips, plus practical notes on everyday language and culture.
Language School
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Southern Vietnamese language school with one-to-one and group classes online or in Ho Chi Minh City, focused on speaking from the first lesson.
Podcast
VTM 2
Paid Southern Vietnamese podcast with short, unscripted talks by a native speaker, plus transcripts for intermediate listening practice.
Mobile App
Podglot
A freemium Vietnamese app with native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, phrase packs, quizzes, and an AI tutor for Northern and Southern accents.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons on everyday Southern Vietnamese, with clear explanations of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and songs.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation guides, practical study advice, and a level-organized directory covering Northern and Southern resources.
Mobile App
Drops
Drops teaches Southern-accented Vietnamese vocabulary and common phrases through five-minute visual games, native audio, quizzes, and spaced review.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Southern Vietnamese website with free beginner courses, paid video lessons, audio-supported eBooks, and short-story listening packs.
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.