Book
Mini Vietnamese Dictionary
A pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000 words and expressions, plus pronunciation and grammar help.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Mobile App
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through text, voice, video calls, live rooms, and corrections.
Mobile App
Pingo AI
AI Vietnamese speaking app with personalized lessons, guided conversations, roleplays, and feedback on pronunciation and grammar.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese, with a guided path through pronunciation, tones, grammar, vocabulary, and listening practice.
Mobile App
Mondly
A freemium app with short Vietnamese lessons, native-speaker audio, speech checks, quizzes, vocabulary review, and AI conversation drills.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Free website with 20 beginner spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, grammar notes, exercises, and culture pages.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese covering pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short dialogues for everyday listening.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrasebook
Offline travel phrasebook with 200+ free Vietnamese words and phrases, native audio, slow playback, search, favorites, and a paid upgrade.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation guides, practical study advice, and a level-organized directory covering Northern and Southern resources.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrases
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with 800+ travel and everyday phrases, native audio, search, flashcards, and voice recording.
Mobile App
LingQ
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through synchronized reading and audio, instant word lookup, saved vocabulary, SRS review, and content imports.
Podcast
Go Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese podcast with natural stories, slow and normal audio, transcripts, and exposure to Da Nang and Southern accents.
Book
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners 2
A follow-up beginner book teaching colloquial Southern Vietnamese through comic stories, glossaries, brief grammar notes, and audio.
Mobile App
Nemo
Flashcard and phrasebook app for useful Vietnamese, with Southern native audio, offline study, and record-and-compare pronunciation.
Website
Wordwall Exercises
Free Wordwall games and quizzes for drilling beginner Southern Vietnamese vocabulary, everyday phrases, sentences, and listening.
Website
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese website with free lessons, audio and quizzes, plus a paid pronunciation course and live online tutoring.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Live Vietnamese school with private and group classes online or in person, an A1-C2 pathway, native teachers, and three dialect options.
Website
AmazingTalker
A website for booking live one-to-one Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, paid trials, flexible schedules, and AI matching.
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.