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LangHub
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese lessons with themed word and phrase lists, plus downloadable MP3, PDF, and text files for self-study by level.
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 30 resources filtered by Readers, Course and Website. View all resources.
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National Resource Center For Asian Languages
Readers
CSUF's NRCAL website features Vietnamese children's readers and contest-winning storybooks that support early literacy and heritage language reading.
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Vietnamese Headstart2
Course
Free DLIFLC website with beginner Vietnamese lessons on sounds, script, key phrases, and military scenarios, plus audio, quizzes, and certificates.
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Vietnamese Immersion Guide
Course
Free website with an immersion-based Vietnamese roadmap, a 30-day beginner routine, and setup guides for Anki, Yomitan, and study resources.
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FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 2
Course
Free Live Lingua page for FSI Vietnamese Volume 2 with the student text, lesson audio, downloads, and a recorder for drill-based self-study.
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Storybooks Speech and Hearing
Readers
Free website with graded Vietnamese storybooks, English text, IPA support, and PDF downloads for beginner reading and pronunciation practice.
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Udemy
Course Tutoring
Udemy is a course marketplace where you can buy or preview self paced Vietnamese video classes from different instructors, then learn on your own schedule.
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Unite For Literacy
Readers
Free children's picture-book website with 400 plus short books, simple text, and audio narration in many languages for early reading practice.
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Loecsen
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website for beginners with A1 lessons, native audio, travel phrases, short tests, and clear notes on tones and everyday usage.
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The Voice Of Vietnam
Course
Free VOV World archive of Vietnamese audio lessons arranged from A2 to C2, useful if you want leveled listening practice with cultural topics.
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Phrasebook Tiếng Việt For Beginners
Course Phrasebook
Free website with 100 beginner Vietnamese lessons, short dialogues, and downloadable MP3s for learning everyday phrases and basic sentence patterns.
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Vietnamese Course
Course
Free web archive of the Cortina Vietnamese course with one textbook PDF and many audio tracks for self paced study and shadowing.
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Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
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Learn101
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Free beginner Vietnamese website with step by step lessons on the alphabet, numbers, phrases, vocabulary, grammar, and basic audio support.
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Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
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.