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Flashcardo
Free Vietnamese vocabulary flashcards with topic decks, 1,000 common words, audio, quizzes, printable PDFs, and online spaced repetition.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese website with graded podcast transcripts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and optional paid materials.
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DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
A free 100-lesson DLI textbook course in Northern Vietnamese, with downloadable PDFs, grammar drills, readings, and matching audio.
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Tiếng Việt Nâng Cao Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 2
An upper-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 10 themed lessons, 2 reviews, practical readings, vocabulary, grammar, and skills practice.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Vietnamese course app with structured lessons, vocabulary games, grammar drills, AI role-play, custom lessons, and a built-in translator.
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Vietlingo
Website with dialect-based Vietnamese courses, native-teacher lessons, exercises, and AI practice for Southern, Northern, or Central speech.
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Tiếng Việt Nâng Cao Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 1
A 12-unit pre-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with practical life topics, discussion prompts, reading practice, grammar, and vocabulary.
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LingoHut
Free website with 125 five-minute Vietnamese vocabulary lessons, audio, flashcards, and simple games for everyday words and phrases.
Mobile App
Clozemaster
Clozemaster drills Vietnamese vocabulary in context with 3,500+ fill-in-the-blank sentences, spaced review, listening, and AI explanations.
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EchoMeo
Vietnamese practice website with gamified vocabulary drills, graded readings, TTS audio, AI chat, and three regional pronunciation options.
Mobile App
PhoSpeak
A mobile Northern Vietnamese course with teacher videos, native audio, tone feedback, exercises, and captioned stories for daily conversation.
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Tiếng Việt Cơ Sở Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 1
A beginner textbook that builds Vietnamese pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and everyday communication through dialogues and varied exercises.
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Elementary Vietnamese
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, grammar drills, cultural notes, and 8 hours of native audio plus printable flashcards.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Free Anki deck with about 5,800 Northern Vietnamese vocabulary notes and native audio, adapted from a community Memrise course.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Free Anki deck with medium-length Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and TTS audio for spaced review, listening, and shadowing.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Free Anki deck with short to medium Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and text-to-speech audio for listening and review.
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Vietnamese with Ease 1
A beginner Vietnamese coursebook with practical dialogues, picture vocabulary, grammar practice, exercises, and QR-linked listening audio.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Free Northern Vietnamese Anki deck with about 1,100 words and phrases, tone-colored cards, a tone chart, and audio on most entries.
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.