Book
Vietnamese for Beginners
A 14-chapter beginner Vietnamese textbook with tone training, real-life dialogues, grammar notes, native audio, and 200 downloadable flashcards.
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
LingoDeer
A structured Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, grammar notes, SRS reviews, speaking practice, and a travel phrasebook.
Mobile App
Duolingo
A gamified Vietnamese course with short Northern-dialect lessons that drill vocabulary, sentence patterns, reading, and listening.
Website
Langiri
Graded Vietnamese video library with native speakers, captions, level filters, and separate Northern and Southern dialect choices.
Mobile App
50 Languages
Beginner Vietnamese app with 100 audio-text lessons, practical phrases, vocabulary practice, and quizzes for everyday situations.
Language School
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese school with private and group classes, a structured CEFR-aligned curriculum, and online or Ho Chi Minh City lessons.
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.