Website
FluentSaigon
A browser-based Southern Vietnamese phrase and vocabulary trainer with native Saigon audio, cheat sheets, and randomized quizzes.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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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
Basic Vietnamese
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ Vietnamese sentence notes and Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening, and shadowing.
Website
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese website with graded podcast transcripts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and optional paid materials.
Website
Glosbe
Free English-Vietnamese dictionary with contextual examples, definitions, pronunciation tools, images, and automatic text translation.
Mobile App
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Travel phrasebook app with 1,000+ Vietnamese phrases, Northern and Southern native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, and quizzes.
Book
Learning Vietnamese
A 13-chapter beginner Vietnamese textbook with practical dialogues, drills, cultural notes, native-speaker audio, and printable flashcards.
Website
AmazingTalker
A website for booking live one-to-one Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, paid trials, flexible schedules, and AI matching.
Blog
Late Learning Vietnamese
Free Substack blog sharing an adult learner’s practical Vietnamese study habits, memory methods, tool reviews, and media recommendations.
Podcast
iSpeak Vietlingo
Short beginner Vietnamese lessons paired with Vietnamese with Ease books, using dialogues, listening drills, grammar, and pronunciation practice.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation guides, practical study advice, and a level-organized directory covering Northern and Southern resources.
Language School
Go Vietnamese
Da Nang Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes online or in person, with a practical focus on speaking and pronunciation.
Book
Vietnamese for Beginners
A 14-chapter beginner Vietnamese textbook with tone training, real-life dialogues, grammar notes, native audio, and 200 downloadable flashcards.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Word Collection
Free Anki deck for building everyday Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. Good if you want simple word review alongside other study tools.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
A 10-lesson intermediate Vietnamese textbook with Hanoi dialogues, formal readings, drills, cultural notes, and 10 hours of native audio.
Website
Thư trạm
Free website pairing a 42-lesson Vietnamese grammar guide with a searchable dictionary of 100+ grammar words and particles.
Social Media
Viet with Quinn
Instagram account for short Vietnamese study sessions and casual exposure. Best used as a light supplement, not a full course.
Blog
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành
Free blog library for heritage learners with printable textbooks, dialogue books, exercises, student writing, and children’s stories.
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.