Language Survival Kit Modules
Phrasebook
Free DLIFLC website with Vietnamese survival phrases, audio for each line, romanization, and printable downloads for quick travel or field use.
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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Ling
Course
Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.
VKids ABC
Course
Kids app that teaches the Vietnamese alphabet through 29 lessons with letter tracing, example words, short poems, and standard-audio narration.
DinoLingo
Course
Kid-focused Vietnamese learning app with short lessons, songs, videos, games, quizzes, and books, plus progress tracking for up to 6 profiles.
Ultimate Lac Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
English Vietnamese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with word lookup, examples, pronunciation, bookmarks, grammar content, and daily vocabulary.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
A Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with short dialogue lessons, transcripts, vocab review, and practice activities on Annie's site.
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
Course
Free DLI course books on Live Lingua with downloadable PDFs and matching audio drills for learners who want structured practice in basic Vietnamese.
Udemy
Course
Udemy is a course marketplace where you can buy or preview self paced Vietnamese video classes from different instructors, then learn on your own schedule.
Learn101
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese website with step by step lessons on the alphabet, numbers, phrases, vocabulary, grammar, and basic audio support.
iLanguages
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with core words, travel phrases, audio, alphabet notes, grammar basics, flashcards, and a short quiz for review.
Website
Vietnamese Keyboard Online
Free browser-based Vietnamese keyboard that lets you type accented text with three input modes, then copy your text or save it as a file.
HiNative
Mobile Q&A app where you ask native speakers Vietnamese questions by text, audio, or photo and get answers, corrections, and usage notes.
Website
National Resource Center For Asian Languages
Readers
CSUF's NRCAL website features Vietnamese children's readers and contest-winning storybooks that support early literacy and heritage language reading.
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Six short beginner podcast episodes on greetings, family, numbers, and basic sentences, plus a quick review test for extra repetition.
SynapseLingo
Free Vietnamese podcast with short story lessons and separate vocabulary review episodes to build listening skills and everyday words.
Mommy & Me Vietnamese
Free bilingual Vietnamese podcast for kids and parents, with songs, stories, and themed episodes that build basic listening and everyday vocabulary.
Teaching Vietnamese is My Hobby
A 6-episode podcast where teacher Gấm Nguyên shares short stories from teaching Vietnamese, plus practical tips on grammar and vocabulary study.
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.