Book
Vietnamese with Ease 1
A beginner Vietnamese coursebook with practical dialogues, picture vocabulary, grammar practice, exercises, and QR-linked listening audio.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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YouTube
How to Speak with a Southern Vietnamese Accent
Free YouTube lesson explaining Saigon-style sound changes through paired examples you can hear and repeat for Southern accent practice.
Anki Deck
Elementary Vietnamese
Free 70-card Anki deck for beginner Northern Vietnamese, with native audio, English meanings, and short example sentences.
YouTube
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons on everyday Southern Vietnamese, with clear explanations of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and songs.
Book
Vietnamese With Stories: A Vietnamese Story Book for Beginners
Beginner Vietnamese reader with 24 short daily-life stories, English translations, vocabulary lists, and a simple pronunciation guide.
Mobile App
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through text, voice, video calls, live rooms, and corrections.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Website
Speak Saigon
Southern-first browser course with short units, tone scoring, spaced review, games, stories, and AI conversation practice.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrasebook
Offline travel phrasebook with 200+ free Vietnamese words and phrases, native audio, slow playback, search, favorites, and a paid upgrade.
YouTube
Go Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons with pronunciation guides, practical phrases, dialect comparisons, and short Vietnamese stories with transcripts.
Website
AmazingTalker
A website for booking live one-to-one Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, paid trials, flexible schedules, and AI matching.
Book
Instant Vietnamese
Pocket phrasebook using 100 core words and patterns to build travel phrases, with a mini dictionary, dialect notes, and MP3 audio.
Mobile App
Pingo AI
AI Vietnamese speaking app with personalized lessons, guided conversations, roleplays, and feedback on pronunciation and grammar.
Language School
LTL Language School
Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes in Hanoi and Saigon, with Northern and Southern dialect immersion options.
YouTube
Learning Vietnamese Network
Free YouTube lessons on Vietnamese tones, vowels, consonants, and reading, with examples in Northern and Southern accents.
Podcast
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Six free beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese vowels, consonants, tone marks, pronunciation, and numbers through short audio drills.
Mobile App
LingQ
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through synchronized reading and audio, instant word lookup, saved vocabulary, SRS review, and content imports.
Website
17 Minute Languages
Browser-based Vietnamese course with short daily drills, native audio, grammar help, and Northern and Southern variants from A1 to C2.
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.