Basic Vietnamese
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese textbook from MSU with pronunciation units, 15 themed chapters, audio, exercises, and culture notes for self-study. ISBN-13 9781626101241.
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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Actually Understand Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Vietnamese learning channel with graded comprehensible input videos, mostly Southern accent, plus free lessons on YouTube and more on its site.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Core 1k
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with about 1,000 Vietnamese words from the Ling course, plus example sentences, tags, and Northern and Southern audio.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, games, and podcasts, plus paid pronunciation videos and 1-on-1 online tutoring.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Language Pack
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Southern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions, with a Ho Chi Minh City style focus for daily review.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese school with self paced dialogue lessons, app access, and one to one classes for learners who want guided practice.
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Podglot
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese learning app with audio flashcards, phrase packs, and an AI tutor, plus support for both Northern and Southern accents.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 1 Short
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with very short Vietnamese beginner sentences and audio in both Vietnamese and English for quick daily review and shadowing.
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.
Social Media
VietKIMese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese learning posts from Kim, centered on Southern accent pronunciation and quick everyday language tips.
Pingo AI
Course
AI speaking app for Vietnamese with guided dialogues, roleplay lessons, and pronunciation feedback in both Northern and Southern speech.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account from Vietnamese with Thảo sharing short Vietnamese tips and culture posts, with a clear Southern pronunciation and grammar focus.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese Anki Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ basic Vietnamese sentences and both Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening practice, and shadowing.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Study Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Southern Vietnamese vocabulary and common phrases, useful if you want Saigon-style word choice in daily review.
LingoHut
Course
Free Vietnamese website with 125 short lessons for everyday words and phrases, using native audio, simple drills, and quick review games.
Vietnamese Language Studies
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school in Ho Chi Minh City with private, group, and online courses plus a structured path from beginner to advanced.
Langiri
Comprehensible Input
Video-based Vietnamese listening practice with short graded clips you can filter by level, teacher, and Northern or Southern dialect.
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Explore Langiri 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.