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 38 resources filtered by Mobile App and Pronunciation. View all resources.
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Northern Dialect
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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.

Northern Dialect
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Mobile App

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.

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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.

Southern Dialect
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Drops

Flash Cards Phrasebook

Gamified app for learning Vietnamese words and common phrases through 5 minute picture based drills, audio, reviews, and optional speaking practice.

Northern Dialect
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Mobile App

Ling

Course

Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.

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Mobile App

VKids ABC

Course

Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.

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Falou

Course Flash Cards

Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese through short real-life dialogues, speech practice, pronunciation feedback, and review lessons.

Southern Dialect
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DinoLingo

Course

Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.

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Mondly

Course

Mobile app with short Vietnamese lessons, voice-based practice, quizzes, and chatbot dialogues to build everyday vocabulary and speaking habits.

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Mobile App

Mango Languages

Course

Vietnamese course app with short dialogue lessons, native audio, grammar notes, and voice comparison for guided self-study.

Northern Dialect
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Pimsleur

Course

Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.

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Mobile App

Gus on the Go

Flash Cards

Kid-focused Vietnamese app with about 90 beginner words, native audio, and simple mini-games for learning animals, food, colors, numbers, and more.

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Mobile App

Vkids Puzzle

Kids app that teaches the 29-letter Vietnamese alphabet through jigsaw puzzles, animated pictures, and native voice-over for early vocabulary practice.

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Mobile App

Beelinguapp

Readers

Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through side by side stories, audio, and quizzes, with word lookup and flashcard review.

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.

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