PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
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.
Showing 31 resources filtered by Reading and Mobile App. View all resources.
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Clozemaster
Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through fill in the blank sentence drills, with spaced review, audio, and AI explanations for wrong answers.
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for VietnamesePod101 lessons with audio and video courses, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
AmazingTalker
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with tutors, comparing prices and reviews, and joining live classes from your phone.
Market Math
Bilingual mobile game where you add grocery totals in Vietnamese market scenes. Good for numbers and market words, not full language study.
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.
LingoDeer
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Structured Vietnamese lessons in a mobile app with native audio, grammar notes, speaking practice, flashcard reviews, and a travel phrasebook.
Vietnamese English Dictionary+
Dictionary
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with word lookup, example sentences, audio pronunciation, favorites, and flashcards for quick review.
Tandem
Language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through chat, voice notes, audio calls, video calls, and built-in corrections.
Learn Vietnamese Language
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner to intermediate Vietnamese with Northern audio, short lessons, phrasebook, alphabet practice, grammar notes, and quizzes.
Parrot Parrot
Flash Cards
iPhone app for turning Vietnamese text into line by line meanings, full translations, and flashcards you can review right away.
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Dictionary
Mobile Vietnamese-English dictionary and translator with offline lookup, audio pronunciation, browser pop-up translation, and saved word lists.
50 Languages
Course Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese with short audio based lessons, everyday phrases, text support, quizzes, and downloadable MP3s for offline study.
Ling
Course
Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.
Duolingo
Course
Gamified mobile app with a free Vietnamese course that teaches beginner words and sentence patterns through short reading and listening drills.
VKids ABC
Course
Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.
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.