Website
Vietnamese Headstart2
Course
Free DLIFLC website with beginner Vietnamese lessons on sounds, script, key phrases, and military scenarios, plus audio, quizzes, and certificates.
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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YouTube
Everyday Viet
Free YouTube channel with beginner Vietnamese lessons on Southern pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and everyday phrases you can repeat aloud.
Book
Welcome Lunar New Year
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches the 12 con giáp, simple Tết greetings, and basic word-picture reading.
Podcast
Vietnamese Shadowing
Free Vietnamese podcast with short shadowing-style monologues, full transcripts, and YouTube audio to practice listening, reading, and pronunciation.
Book
Essential Vietnamese Grammar
English-language reference grammar with 12 chapters, exercises, answer keys, and online audio for every example sentence.
Mobile App
Memrise
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through short scenario lessons, spaced review, native speaker video clips, and AI speaking practice.
YouTube
Go Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese lessons, pronunciation help, and story based listening linked to Go Vietnamese classes and transcripts.
Book
My First Book of Vietnamese Words
Readers
Bilingual ABC picture book that teaches everyday Vietnamese words with rhymes, cultural notes, and free online audio for young beginners.
Podcast
Vietnamese / English Level 1
Flash Cards
Beginner audio vocabulary drills with English prompts and Vietnamese answers, grouped into long tracks for repeat listening on the go.
Book
The Legend of Cuoi, the Man on the Moon
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book retelling the Cuội moon legend for Trung Thu, made for young readers and family read-alouds.
Language School
Vietnamese Language Studies
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school in Ho Chi Minh City with private, group, and online courses plus a structured path from beginner to advanced.
Language School
SVFF
Course Tutoring
SVFF is a Southern Vietnamese school with structured levels, 1-on-1 lessons, free YouTube samples, and a paid podcast app with transcripts and quizzes.
Language School
LTL Language School
Course Tutoring
In-person Vietnamese school in Hanoi with 1-on-1, 2-on-1, and small group classes, plus homestay, housing, and social activities for immersion.
Mobile App
HelloTalk
Language exchange app for chatting with native speakers by text, voice, and calls, with built-in translation, corrections, captions, and live rooms.
Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 3
Course
A Grade 3 Vietnamese practice book for heritage learners, with reading, spelling, vocabulary, sentence work, and built-in tests.
Social Media
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
Website
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, games, and podcasts, plus paid pronunciation videos and 1-on-1 online tutoring.
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.