Website
Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese learning website with structured courses, live 1-on-1 lessons, and an AI tutor for Northern, Central, or Southern dialect study.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
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Mobile App
50 Languages
Course Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese with short audio based lessons, everyday phrases, text support, quizzes, and downloadable MP3s for offline study.
Social Media
Learn Vietnamese With Nhạt
Free Instagram reels for beginner-friendly Northern Vietnamese practice, with quick clips on pronunciation, tones, and everyday phrases.
Mobile App
Mondly
Course
Mobile app with short Vietnamese lessons, voice-based practice, quizzes, and chatbot dialogues to build everyday vocabulary and speaking habits.
Podcast
Mommy & Me Vietnamese
Free bilingual Vietnamese podcast for kids and parents, with songs, stories, and themed episodes that build basic listening and everyday vocabulary.
Website
Thư trạm
Course Dictionary
Free website with a lesson-based Vietnamese grammar guide and a searchable grammar dictionary for self-study from beginner basics onward.
Mobile App
Gus on the Go
Flash Cards
Kid-focused Vietnamese app with about 90 beginner words, native audio, and simple mini-games for learning animals, food, colors, numbers, and more.
YouTube
Tieng Viet Oi
YouTube channel with free Vietnamese lessons on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, listening, and culture, plus links to paid classes.
Website
Video Vocab
Flash Cards Comprehensible Input
Free study website that teaches Vietnamese through selected YouTube clips, helping you learn key words with spaced repetition before you watch.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Flash Cards
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Book
The Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat
Readers
English-Vietnamese picture book retelling The Little Red Hen with parallel text, simple language, and artwork suited to young readers.
Mobile App
AmazingTalker
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with tutors, comparing prices and reviews, and joining live classes from your phone.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Language Phonology Course
Course
Free DLI phonology workbook with five audio drill tracks and a built in recorder for practicing Vietnamese sounds, spelling patterns, and tones.
YouTube
Street Interviews
Comprehensible Input
Short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles, useful for real-world listening and everyday vocabulary.
Book
Learning Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 13 lessons, dialogues, drills, cultural notes, and free online audio plus printable flashcards.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for systematic Vietnamese study with spaced repetition, focused on building vocabulary and common phrases through regular review.
Website
Hello World
Flash Cards Dictionary
Free Vietnamese learning website with picture vocabulary, flashcards, songs, and simple word games that work well for beginners and kids.
Social Media
Vietramese
Course
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
About the Library
The Library 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
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add 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, the Library is a mix. Some 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.