YouTube
Viet Deep Dive
A free YouTube channel with Vietnamese-focused explainer videos for learners who like self-paced study and longer context.
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
VKids Numbers
Course
Kids app for learning numbers 0 to 9 through tracing, simple math, mini-games, and audio. Better for preschool numeracy than Vietnamese study.
Website
Visaurus
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese thesaurus website that lets you search a word and get synonym and near-synonym lists for reading, writing, and vocabulary building.
Blog
Late Learning Vietnamese
Substack blog by Quang Dang Tran with weekly posts on learning Vietnamese as an adult, covering study habits, memory tips, tech tools, and media picks.
Language School
Center for Vietnamese Language for Foreigners
Course
University-based Vietnamese school in Ho Chi Minh City with group classes, online options, test prep, and skill courses for foreigners.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Memrise Master List
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 7,771 English to Vietnamese cards compiled from Memrise courses, with course tags and audio on roughly 1,000 cards.
Website
Bài Tập Tiếng Việt Online
Free self-check quizzes for beginner Vietnamese, with short tests for vocabulary, reading, listening, and basic sentence building.
Book
Happy After All
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about a girl settling into a new country, with simple text, illustrations, and optional TalkingPEN audio.
YouTube
123Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from 123Vietnamese covering beginner Vietnamese basics, pronunciation practice, and some culture and travel content.
Mobile App
Tandem
Language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through chat, voice notes, audio calls, video calls, and built-in corrections.
Book
Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Compact paperback Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 25,000 entries, sample phrases, and a short guide to spelling and pronunciation.
Website
Vietphonics
Free pronunciation practice site with audio drills for Vietnamese tones, vowels, and consonants in Northern Hanoi and Southern Saigon.
Book
Vietnamese with Ease 1
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with dialogue-based lessons, English explanations, picture vocabulary, and QR audio for pronunciation and listening practice.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
Website
MyLanguageExchange
Website that helps you find Vietnamese exchange partners for email, text, voice, or video practice, with search tools and lesson ideas.
Social Media
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course
Instagram page for a Vietnamese school that shares quick tips and connects you to paid online or Hanoi-based lessons with native teachers.
Website
17 Minute Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese website course with short daily lessons, native speaker audio, grammar help, a placement test, and a free trial before purchase.
Anki Deck
Learn Vietnamese with Colored Tones
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese vocabulary with tone-based colors, plus audio on many cards to support review, listening, and tone awareness.
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.