Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. A practical pick if you like building words through self-paced review.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Website
iLanguages
Free Vietnamese website with common words, everyday phrases, audio, alphabet notes, flashcards, and a short vocabulary quiz.
Mobile App
AmazingTalker
A mobile marketplace for finding Vietnamese tutors, comparing profiles and prices, booking trial lessons, and taking live 1-on-1 classes.
Mobile App
italki
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, booking flexible 1-on-1 video lessons, messaging teachers, and using optional AI review tools.
Website
17 Minute Languages
Browser-based Vietnamese course with short daily drills, native audio, grammar help, and Northern and Southern variants from A1 to C2.
Language School
LTL Language School
Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes in Hanoi and Saigon, with Northern and Southern dialect immersion options.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Southern Vietnamese website with free beginner courses, paid video lessons, audio-supported eBooks, and short-story listening packs.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Pocket phrasebook using 100 core words and patterns to build travel phrases, with a mini dictionary, dialect notes, and MP3 audio.
Mobile App
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with 500,000+ entries, translation, text-to-speech pronunciation, and picture-based word review.
Mobile App
Ling
A freemium Northern Vietnamese app with 200+ bite-sized lessons, native audio, grammar tips, dialogues, and speaking practice.
YouTube
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons on Vietnamese tones, vowels, consonants, and reading, with examples in Northern and Southern accents.
Mobile App
Vietnamese English Dictionary+
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with two-way lookup, definitions, example sentences, pronunciation audio, favorites, and flashcards.
Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Free 70-card Anki deck for beginner Northern Vietnamese, with native audio, English meanings, and short example sentences.
Anki Deck
VDict Assistant Addon
A free Anki add-on that builds Vietnamese vocabulary cards from VDict definitions, examples, images, synonyms, and optional dialect audio packs.
Mobile App
Mango Languages
A self-paced Vietnamese app with conversation lessons, native audio, grammar and culture notes, spaced review, and voice comparison.
Podcast
Fluent Fiction
A Vietnamese podcast with bilingual short stories, sentence-by-sentence replay, full transcripts, and vocabulary lists for listening practice.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
Mobile App
Pimsleur
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 Northern-dialect lessons, native audio, reading practice, flashcards, and AI pronunciation feedback.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section 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
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese 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. Some learning resources 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.