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Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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YouTube
Learn Southern Vietnamese with Thanh
Free YouTube lessons on Southern Vietnamese pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and beginner phrases through spoken examples and repetition.
Mobile App
Rosetta Stone
A structured mobile course for Northern Vietnamese using images, native audio, short drills, and instant pronunciation feedback.
Website
Vietphonics
Free browser audio drills for hearing Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon pronunciation.
YouTube
Lazy Vietnamese
Free YouTube channel with slow Northern Vietnamese stories, visual context, and captions for listening and vocabulary practice.
Book
Beginners’ Vietnamese
A self-study Vietnamese course book for absolute beginners, with short lessons, practice activities, study planners, and free online audio.
Website
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 2
Free website for FSI Vietnamese Volume 2, pairing five Southern Vietnamese lessons with audio, downloadable text, drills, and a voice recorder.
YouTube
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with short listening practice, podcast clips, pronunciation guides, and beginner vocabulary videos.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Collection
Free Anki deck for reviewing Northern Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition and steady recall practice.
Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level B1
A 272-page B1 Vietnamese textbook with 8 themed lessons, 2 reviews, exercises, and downloadable Northern and Southern audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Memrise Master List
Free Anki deck with about 7,800 English-to-Vietnamese cards, course-based tags, and audio on roughly 1,000 vocabulary cards.
Mobile App
VietnamesePod101
VietnamesePod101 mobile app offers short audio and video lessons with transcripts, notes, vocabulary tools, offline study, and progress tracking.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
YouTube
Street Interviews
Seven short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles for real-world listening practice.
Website
VietSyllables
Free interactive Vietnamese pronunciation site with a syllable chart, tone controls, minimal-pair drills, and Northern, Southern, and Huế audio.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 4 Medium Long
Free Anki deck of medium-long Vietnamese sentences with English translations and synthetic audio for listening, shadowing, and daily review.
YouTube
Langiri
A free YouTube channel with short Vietnamese input videos from native Northern and Southern speakers for practical listening practice.
Mobile App
Falou
Mobile Vietnamese course built around short real-life dialogues, speaking drills, AI pronunciation feedback, and personalized review.
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.